2010
Craig Silvey News 2010.
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March 2010.
Craig Silvey meets with booksellers and fans. View more photos on Craig Silvey's Facebook.
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March 14, 2010.
Craig Silvey is among four West Australians nominated for the 2010 Cleo Bachelor of the Year. Read about it in "Meet WA's Bachelor of the Year contestants" (archive), an article by Daniel Hatch in The West Australian. The other three finalists are radio announcer Ross Wallman, Olympian John Steffensen, and footballer and physiotherapist Dave Dawes. (Note: Craig Silvey's original bachelor profile is no longer on Cleo's website. However, here's an archive of it.)
Above photo, left to right: Ross Wallman, John Steffensen, Craig Silvey, and Dave Dawes.
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March 17, 2010.
Jasper Jones is on the longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Read Susan Wyndham's article, "In Cleo's Books, the Miles Franklin Has a Very Hot Favourite," in the Sydney Morning Herald (archive 1, archive 2). In the following photo are Craig Silvey, Brian Castro, Alex Miller, and Deborah Foster.
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March 17, 2010.
Rebecca Starford reviews Jasper Jones for the Sydney Morning Herald (archive 1, archive 2).
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April 1, 2010.
If he were a film character, Craig Silvey would be the Fantastic Mr Fox. Read about it on Electric Sheep Magazine (archive, archive 2).
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April 9, 2010.
Gillian E. Hamer writes the first UK review of Jasper Jones (archive 1, archive 2). The following image is the UK cover of Jasper Jones. (See more book covers on Craig Silvey's Facebook.)
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May 26, 2010.
Craig Silvey is named one of The Herald's "Best Young Australian Novelists" for 2010. Read Marc McEvoy's article, "Grace under fire," in the Sydney Morning Herald (archive 1, archive 2). Here's this year's full list:
* Kalinda Ashston, author of The Danger Game.
* Andrew Coombe, author of Document Z.
* Emily Maguire, author of Taming the Beast.
* Craig Silvey, author of Jasper Jones.
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June 1, 2010.
Televisionet of Italy interviews Craig Silvey.
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June 7, 2010.
Italian literary magazine Wuz interviews Craig Silvey and reviews Jasper Jones. Read the interview in Italian (Leggi l'intervista; archive). Read the review in Italian (Leggi la recensione; archive). The following is the Italian cover of Jasper Jones. (See more book covers on Craig Silvey's Facebook.)
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July 1, 2010.
Jasper Jones wins book of the year and literary fiction book of the year at the annual Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney. Read the article, "Australia's Mark Twain wins book of the year," published by the ABC (archive 1, archive 2).
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July 7, 2010.
Craig Silvey in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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July 22, 2010.
Craig Silvey makes the longlist of the Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers. Read about it at Readings (archive 1, archive 2) and the BBC (archive1, archive 2).
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August 12, 2010.
Tim Winton and Craig Silvey are wed. Read about the combined 2008 and 2009 Western Australian Premier's book awards in The West Australia (archive).
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September 1, 2010.
Craig Silveys story, The Amber Amulet, appears in 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010. Other Australian writers featured in this collection include Maggie Alderson, Georgia Blain, Mark Dapin, Nick Earls, Alex Miller, Judy Nunn, Malla Nunn, Rachael Treasure, and Christos Tsiolkas. View the collection on Goodreads. Read Irma Gold's article in Overland about this collection (archive 1, archive 2).
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September 14, 2010.
If you read Spanish, check out the following interview: Craig Silvey: "Está bien no perder nunca el punto adolescente." It appeared in El Periódico de Catalunya. (Archive 1, archive 2.)
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September 13, 2010.
The Spanish publication ABC writes about Craig Silvey. The title of the piece is "Escribir una canción es un sprint, pero un libro es una maratón," which roughly translates to, "Writing a song is a sprint, but a book is a marathon." (Archive 1, archive 2.)
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September 28, 2010.
Maggie Ball interviews Craig Silvey. Listen to the interview on the sights and sounds page or on Blog Talk Radio (archive).
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October 11, 2010.
Italian magazine L'uomo Vogue features Craig Silvey. (If you read Italian, check out the Italian translation of Jasper Jones).
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November 26, 2010.
Rachel Brown interviews Craig Silvey from Edinburgh, Scotland. Note: Craig's interview starts 9 minutes and 48 seconds into the video. This link takes you directly to Craig Silvey's segment. This interview appeared on ABC's One Plus One.