ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

Good grief, another set of longlists, how can we bloggers hope to keep up? Just as well I’m on school holidays today!

2013 Kibble Literary Award Long List

• Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel (Allen & Unwin)  (See my review)
• Annah Faulkner – The Beloved (Pan Macmillan Australia) (See my review)
• Chloe Hooper – The Engagement (Penguin Group Australia) (See my review)
• Susan Johnson – My Hundred Lovers (Allen & Unwin) (See combined reviews and Meet an Aussie Author: Susan Johnson)
• Cate Kennedy – Like A House On Fire (Scribe)
• Patti Miller – The Mind of a Thief (University of Queensland Press)
• Stephanie Radok – An Opening: Twelve love stories about art (Wakefield Press)
• Carrie Tiffany – Mateship with Birds (Pan Macmillan Australia) (See my review and Carrie Tiffany at the Parkdale Library)

2013 Dobbie Literary Award Long List

• Romy Ash – Floundering (Text Publishing)  See my review.
• Jessie Cole – Darkness on the Edge of Town (HarperCollins Publishers) (See my review and Meet an Aussie Author: Jessie Cole)
• Courtney Collins – The Burial (Allen & Unwin) See Sue’s review at Whispering Gums.
• Lily Chan – Toyo: A memoir (Black Inc.)
• Lynne Leonhardt – Finding Jasper (Margaret River Press) (See KarenLee Thompson’s  Guest review)
• Jacqueline Wright – Red Dirt Talking (Fremantle Press) (See my review)

Congratulations to all the authors and publishers:)

PS If I may be allowed a little bit of bragging, it pleases me that I have already read and reviewed so many of these books by Aussie women authors.  ANZ LitLovers is dedicated to reviewing Australian and New Zealand literary fiction, by authors of either gender!