The book-related winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes included Cormac McCarthy for his post-apocalyptic novel, The Road.
The prize is US$10,000, but only American writers are eligible. Other nominees in the category were Alice McDermott, for After This, and Richard Power for The Echo Maker.
visit www.pulitzer.org for more details.
Acclaimed novelist Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions, has died aged 84.
From The Guardian:
Writers Praise Work of Kurt Vonnegut
From The New York Times:
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught The Imagination of His Age
From The Age:
Where does an 80-something atheist science fiction novelist go when he dies?
Our next fabulous forum is an author/publisher combo that’s sure to be informative, entertaining and full of anecdotes and opinions on the current state of Australian publishing. Please join us at the special evening time of 7pm for this session.
Date: Tue 17 April
Time: 7pm (AEST), 5pm (WA), 10am (UK)
Guests: Susan Johnson (The Broken Book, A Better Woman) and Annette Barlow (Senior Fiction Publisher, Allen and Unwin)