2013
Craig Silvey News 2013.
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January 2013.
Craig Silvey came in ninth in Booktopia's top ten favourite Australian novelists. The original Booktopia post announcing this is no longer available. However, you can read an archive of it. The top ten are:
1. Kate Morton.
2. Tim Winton.
3. Monica McInerney.
4. John Marsden.
5. Ruth Park.
6. Isobelle Carmody.
7. Bryce Courtenay.
8. Markus Zusak.
9. Craig Silvey.
10. Rachael Johns.
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February 2013.
The Amber Amulet movie wins the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at the 63rd International Berlin Film Festival. Read Craig Silvey's Facebook posts: February 19, February 16, and January 11. Also check out the following article: "The Amber Amulet wins Best Short Film in Berlin" (archive 1, archive 2). The following image is from Matthew Moore's movie.
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March 17, 2013.
Wer hat Angst vor Jasper Jones?, the German translation of Jasper Jones, was nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2013. Read about the German Youth Literature Award 2013 on Craig Silvey's Facebook post.
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April 19, 2013.
The Amber Amulet movie will celebrate its Australian debut next month at the Sydney Writers Festival. Read Craig Silvey's Facebook post.
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April 22, 2013.
The Amber Amulet movie wins the Kids Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read Craig Silvey's Facebook post. Watch the trailer on Michael Moore's Vimeo.
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April 30, 2013.
Tanrı'nın Unutulan Çocukları (God’s Forgotten Children), the Turkish translation of Jasper Jones, climbs Turkey's bestseller charts. Read about it on Craig Silvey's Facebook. And if you speak Turkish, check out Craig Silvey's Turkish Facebook.
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July 27, 2013.
The Amber Amulet movie will screen next week at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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August 21, 2013.
Najma Warsame explores Jasper Jones in a presentation.
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August 29, 2013.
Craig Silvey appeared at the Australian and New Zealand Literary BBQ, London. Listen to the Q&A on SoundCloud, on Mixcloud, or on the sights and sounds page.
There are no two things closer to the hearts of Aussies and Kiwis than literature and barbecues. Read more on the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts website, AusNZfestival.com (archive).
Above: Craig Silvey at the Australian and NZ Literary BBQ, London, August 2013. Image source: Western Australia Govt European Office (archive 1; archive 2).
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August 31, 2013.
As part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Craig Silvey was a judge for the Literary Death Match. Read about it on LiteraryDeathMatch.com (archive) and Craig Silvey's Facebook. There are also some photos of Craig Silvey on the Edinburgh Book Festival's Flickr (archive).
Above photo, left to right: Dawn O’Porter, Craig Silvey, Neil Gaiman, and Adrian Todd Zuniga at the Literary Death Match in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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September 1, 2013.
Two of Craig Silvey's books appear on Australia's 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads. Jasper Jones was voted #7 and Rhubarb was voted #91. Read about it on Craig Silvey's Facebook and in this archive of the Get Reading page. Here's a list of the top 100.
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September 12, 2013.
Tyson Yates interviews Craig Silvey about The Amber Amulet and what he thinks makes for good Australian literature. Read the interview, "Author Craig Silvey: Capturing Australia," published on the Australian Times (archive).
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September 27, 2013.
The Cricketer publishes Craig Silvey's piece about Justin Langer (archive).
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October 25, 2013.
Read about Matthew Moore, Genevieve Hegney, The Amber Amulet, and the Heartland Film Festival on Craig Silvey's Facebook and Truly Moving Pictures (archive).
Above photo: Director Matthew Moore accepts the Narrative Short Grand Prize for The Amber Amulet.
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November 20, 2013.
Summer Lovin' (2013), a short story collection out now by Fremantle Press, includes a story from Craig Silvey. It is available from Penguin and Booktopia. Edited by Liz Byrski, the collection also features the following writers: Tracy Farr, Elizabeth Jolley, Iris Lavell, Natasha Lester, Chris McLeod, Adam Morris, Marcella Polain, Annabel Smith, and Jacqueline Wright. ISBN: 9781922089588. (Archive 1, archive 2.)
Summer Lovin' features fourteen stories from Australia's best-known writers. From love found to love lost, from first times to second chances, in the city, on the land and through every chamber of the heart, these uniquely Australian stories are as moving as they are entertaining. Love elides logic and confounds analysis, it taunts and teases us, rewards and punishes and yet we continue to reach for it because love in all it's infinite varieties, is at the heart of life, and if life matters then so, inevitably, does love. (Book description sourced from Goodreads; archive.)
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November 21, 2013.
Hakan Göçmez reviews Tanrı'nın Unutulan Çocukları (God’s Forgotten Children), the Turkish translation of Jasper Jones. If you can read Turkish, here's the review. Also check out Craig Silvey's Turkish Facebook.
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December 11, 2013.
Read about Craig Silvey, John Sheedy, and Barking Gecko's upcoming stage production of Jasper Jones on Craig Silvey's Facebook.
