I am very pleased to announce that Dragon Moon has been shortlisted for an Aurealis Award. The Aurealis Awards are for Australian speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy and horror). Dragon Moon has been shortlisted in the Children’s long fiction section. Click here to see all the shortlisted books/stories.
Yesterday I received a rattlesnake in the post! Regular visitors might remember that last year Dragonkeeper (of more correctly Huterin des Drachen) won the German children’s choice award called the Kalbacher Klapperschlange. And those with excellent memories might recall that Klapperschlange means rattlesnake. Book awards come in all shapes and sizes—plaques, medals, glass sculptures—but this [...]
I have just heard that Dragonkeeper (or Huterin des Drachen) has won the German Kalbacher Klapperschlange award. This is my first award outside Australia, so it is very exciting. It’s hard to find out how my books are going overseas, very hard to get sales figures etc. So it is wonderful news. Klapperschlange means ‘rattlesnake’ [...]
It’s been my year for kids’ choice awards. Dragonkeeper has won the NSW KOALA award for older readers. It’s the first children’s choice award Dragonkeeper has won, so that’s very exciting and thanks to all those readers who voted for it. I went to Sydney to attend the ceremony which was held at the Taronga [...]
I have just returned from three days in Perth. I went there to accept the 2006 WAYRBA Award for Younger Readers for Garden of the Purple Dragon. This is Garden‘s first award and it is my first ‘Children’s Choice’ award, so I was thrilled to receive it. I am in esteemed company as Christopher Paolini’s [...]
These are the awards that Dragonkeeper has won in the last year or so: 2004 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year (Younger Readers) 2004 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (Best Children’s Book) 2003 Aurealis Award (Young Adult Novel) Joint Winner Shortlisted 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Award
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