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Commentary | Vaclav Havel and Nobel Laureates Call for the Release of Imprisoned Burmese Writers

June-July 2004, no. 262 01 June 2004
Fourteen Nobel Literature Laureates – along with Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic and renowned playwright, and Jiri Grusa, acclaimed Czech writer and President of International PEN – have urged Senior General Than Shwe of the Burmese Military Junta to release Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other imprisoned Burmese writers. These include 74-year-old editor U W ... (read more)

Letters - May 2005

May 2005, no. 271 01 May 2005
ABR welcomes letters from our readers. Correspondents should note that letters may be edited. Letters and emails must reach us by the middle of the current month, and must include a telephone number for verification.   Tyranny of the literal Dear Editor, I was delighted to read Sue Thomas’s incisive review of Derek Attridge’s J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading in the April 2005 is ... (read more)

Advances - May 2005

May 2005, no. 271 01 May 2005
From thesis to book Much has been written and muttered about the difficulty of turning scholarship into commercially viable manuscripts and of interesting publishers in academic writing – some of it, indeed, by Tom Griffiths in the February issue of ABR. In his Commentary, Professor Griffiths defended the role of universities in fostering cogent, rigorous writing. (He also produced one of our f ... (read more)

Letters - April 2005

April 2005, no. 270 01 April 2005
ABR welcomes letters from our readers. Correspondents should note that letters may be edited. Letters and emails must reach us by the middle of the current month, and must include a telephone number for verification.   Barry Jones on the ODNB Dear Editor, I read Angus Trumble’s review of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ABR, March 2005) with close interest and some envy. It ... (read more)

Advances - March 2005

March 2005, no. 269 01 March 2005
2004 National Biography Award There have been some big developments with this award, which is administered and presented by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of its benefactor, Dr Geoffrey Cains. As we go to press, the organisers tell us that this year’s prize money has been increased from $15,000 to $20,000, because of the generosity of Michael Crouch, Director of Zip Heaters and ... (read more)

Letters - June-July 2005

June–July 2005, no. 272 01 June 2005
ABR welcomes letters from our readers. Correspondents should note that letters may be edited. Letters and emails must reach us by the middle of the current month, and must include a telephone number for verification.   Behold how low Dear Editor, Robert Manne’s review of my book Washout: On the Academic Response to the Fabrication of Aboriginal History (ABR, May 2005) avoids most of my ... (read more)

Advances - August 2005

August 2005, no. 273 01 August 2005
It’s on again! In a country famously saturated with prizes, the ABR Reviewing Competition is unique. It is widely regarded as one of the most constructive and needed awards, which is why we have brought forward the third competition from the advertised date of 2006. Announcing the winners of last year’s competition in the December 2004–January 2005 issue, ‘Advances’ reported that 100 ne ... (read more)

2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Competitions and programs 01 July 2024
Entries for the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize have now closed  First prize: AU$6,000 Four other shortlisted poets: AU$1,000 Closed: midnight AEST, 7 October 2024 Judges: Sarah Holland-Batt, Paul Kane, Peter Rose Australian Book Review has now closed entries for the twenty-first Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which was open to all international poets from 1 July 2024 until midnight AES ... (read more)

Advances - April 2005

April 2005, no. 270 01 April 2005
And the winner is … Stephen Edgar has won the inaugural ABR Poetry Prize with his poem ‘Man on the Moon’. The three judges, Morag Fraser, Peter Rose and Peter Steele, were impressed by the overall quality of the entries and were pleased to be able to choose from such a strong short list, but the final decision was quick and unanimous because of the formal and imaginative qualities of Stephe ... (read more)

Letters - August 2005

August 2005, no. 273 01 August 2005
ABR welcomes letters from our readers. Correspondents should note that letters may be edited. Letters and emails must reach us by the middle of the current month, and must include a telephone number for verification. ... (read more)