THE 2009 DAVITT AWARDS
The 2009 Davitt Awards will be presented by Judge Betty King: 7pm August 21
This year 41 books by Australian women are competing for Davitt Awards in 4 categories — best crime novels (adult and young adult), best true crime book, and readers’ choice, published the previous year (2008).
Prior to the award presentations, Judge King will talk to Sue Turnbull about her life and times. Judge King was one the first women ‘silks’ in Victoria and, since her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2005, has presided over a number of high-profile murder and police corruption trials, including the Carl Williams case.
Celtic Club, corner of La Trobe and Queen Street, Melbourne
Bookings are essential. Ring Phyllis King: 03 9432 6777 (a/h) or email P.King@mbs.edu
$45. All drinks at bar prices. Book by August 17. From 8.30 pm, some places are available without dinner— cost $10 ($5 members/conc) with the option of buying coffees, drinks and desserts. http://www.celticclub.com.au/
Info: Carmel Shute on 0412 569 356 or go to: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sincoz/
This year 41 books by Australian women are competing for Davitt Awards in 4 categories — best crime novels (adult and young adult), best true crime book, and readers’ choice, published the previous year (2008).
Prior to the award presentations, Judge King will talk to Sue Turnbull about her life and times. Judge King was one the first women ‘silks’ in Victoria and, since her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2005, has presided over a number of high-profile murder and police corruption trials, including the Carl Williams case.
Celtic Club, corner of La Trobe and Queen Street, Melbourne
Bookings are essential. Ring Phyllis King: 03 9432 6777 (a/h) or email P.King@mbs.edu
$45. All drinks at bar prices. Book by August 17. From 8.30 pm, some places are available without dinner— cost $10 ($5 members/conc) with the option of buying coffees, drinks and desserts. http://www.celticclub.com.au/
Info: Carmel Shute on 0412 569 356 or go to: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sincoz/
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39 NOMINEES FOR DAVITT AWARDS FOR THE TOP CRIME BOOKS BY WOMEN
Thirty-nine crime books by Australian women are competing for Sisters in Crime’s 9th Davitt Awards for the best crime novels and true crime books by Australian women published in book form in 2008. Four Davitts will be presented this year – adult, young adult, true crime and readers’ choice, as voted by Sisters in Crime’s 500 members nationally.
The winners each receive a handsome trophy to be presented on Friday August 21, 7pm, Celtic Club Restaurant, corner La Trobe and Queen Sts, Melbourne by Justice Betty King of the Supreme Court of Victoria. ‘Judge Betty’, as she is fondly known, will also talk about her life and times with Sisters in Crime national co-convenor, Dr Sue Turnbull.
The books under contention are:
ADULT NOVELS
• Diane Armstrong, Nocturne ( HarperCollins)
• Sydney Bauer, Alibi (PanMacmillan)
• Robin Bowles, The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece (The Five Mile Press)
• Helen Denkha, Many Happy Returns (Zeus Publications)
• Leah Giarratano, Voodoo Doll (Random House)
• Kerry Greenwood, Murder on a Midsummer Night (Allen & Unwin)
• Marion Halligan, Murder on the Apricot Coast (Allen & Unwin)
• Katherine Howell, The Darkest Hour (PanMacmillan)
• Catherine Jinks, The Dark Mountain (Allen & Unwin)
• Vivienne Kelly, Cooee (Scribe Publications)
• T J Joyce, Hotel of Secrets (Exisle Publishing)
• P D Martin, Fan Mail (PanMacmillan)
• Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden (Allen & Unwin)
• Camilla Noli, Still Waters (Hachette Livre)
• Malla Nunn, A Beautiful Place to Die (PanMacmillan)
• Alex Palmer, The Tattooed Man (HarperCollins)
• Bronwyn Parry, As Darkness Falls (Hachette Livre)
• Caroline Petit, Deep Night Soho Press, New York)
• Maria Simms, The Dead House (Gibbes Street)
• Felicity Young, Harum Scarum (Fremantle Arts Press)
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
• Catherine Jinks, Genius Squad (Allen & Unwin)
• Sophie Masson, The Case of the Diamond Shadow (ABC Books (Harper Collins)
• Maureen McCarthy, Somebody’s Crying (Allen & Unwin)
• Isabelle Merlin, Three Wishes (Random House)
• Beth Montgomery, Murderer’s Thumb (Text)
• Felicity Pulman, Willows for Weeping (Random House)
• Moya Symons, The Walk Right In Detective Agency: High Crime in Milk Bay (Walker Books)
TRUE CRIME
• Carol Baxter, Breaking the Bank: An Extraordinary Colonial Robbery (Allen & Unwin)
• Lindy Cameron, ed., Outside the Law 2 (The Five Mile Press)
• Lindy Cameron & Fin J Ross, Killer in the Family: Over Twenty Chilling Accounts of Domestic Tragedy (The Five Mile Press)
• Lisa Clifford, Death in the Mountains: The True Story of a Tuscan Murder (PanMacmillan)
• Kay Danes, Families Behind Bars (New Holland Publishers)
• Judith Fordham, Life, Law and Not Enough (New Holland Publishers)
• Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man (Penguin Books Australia)
• Rochelle Jackson, Inside Their Minds: Australian Criminals (Allen & Unwin)
• Anne Lovell, Connie's Secret: The True Story of a Shocking Murder and a Family Mystery at a Time When Appearances Were Everything (Allen & Unwin)
• Camilla Nelson, Crooked (Random House)
• Vicki Petraitis, Crime Scene Investigations: More Stories from the Australian Police Files (The Five Mile Press)
Sisters in Crime spokesperson, Dr Sue Turnbull, said that the formal judging was about to take place but judges had already found the battle for laurels in the crime fiction universe particularly fierce this year. “Novels and true crime books by Australian women continue to rank amongst the tops reads of the year.”.
Frantic (PanMacmillan), the debut novel by ambulance officer turned crime writer, Katherine Howell, won the 2008 Davitt Awards for the best (adult) crime novel by an Australian woman in 2007. Sydney writer Mandy Sayer took out the Davitt (young adult) for The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (HarperCollins) while award-winning journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans won the Davitt (true crime) for Killing Jodie How Australia's most elusive murderer was brought to justice (Penguin Books Australia). The Davitt (reader’s choice by the members of Sisters in Crime) went to Victorian crime writer Lindy Cameron who edited Scarlet Stiletto – The First Cut
(Mira), a collection of winning short stories over 13 years of Sisters in Crime’s Scarlet Stiletto Awards Competition.
The judging panel for 2009 comprises Dr Shelley Robertson (Sisters in Crime member, forensic pathologist), Rosi Tovey (former owner of Chronicles Bookshop in St Kilda, Dr Sue Turnbull (Head of Media Studies, La Trobe University, Sisters in Crime national co-convenor and Sydney Morning Herald crime columnist), Sylvia Loader (Sisters in Crime national co-convenor, and reviewer) and Tanya King-Carmichael (reviewer and former Sisters in Crime national co-convenor).
The awards are named after Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) who wrote Australia’s first mystery novel, Force and Fraud, in 1865.
Enquiries: Sue Turnbull National Co-convenor on 03 9844 1644 h; 03 9479 2513 or 0407 810 090.
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