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8/16/2017

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Te Kura Pounamu Award for books written completely in te reo Māori

Te Kaihanga Māpere (Sacha Cotter, illus by Josh Morgan, trans by Kawata Teepa, Huia Publishers) Best First Book Award

The Discombobulation of Summer Rain (Julie Lamb, Submarine).

The winners were announced at a ceremony in Wellington on 14 August. The winners in each category received NZ$7500 (A$6960), with an additional NZ$7500 awarded for the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year. For more information about the awards, click here .

Fox Searchlight options ‘Two Steps Forward’ Fox Searchlight has optioned the film rights to Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist’s novel Two Steps Forward (Text). Ellen Degeneres and Jeff Kleeman will produce the film through their company A Very Good Production, which is currently attached to several TV projects in the US. Two Steps Forward is told in alternating viewpoints from Zoe, an American artist, and Martin, a British engineer, who meet on the Camino de Santiago walking track in France and Spain. The book will be published on 2 October. RWA awards 2017 winners announced The winners of the 2017 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 12 August at the RWA conference in Brisbane. The winners included: Long romance and romantic book of the year

Escaping Mr Right (Avril Tremayne, Random House)

Short romance

Breaking Good (Madeline Ash, Tule Publishing)

Novella

Unexplored (Anna Hackett, self-published)

Romantic elements

Numbered (Amy Andrews & Ros Baxter, Harlequin).

https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/newsletter/wbn/2017/08/16/

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