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Inky Awards for the best Young Adult literature have been announced!
The Inky Awards were established in 2007 as Australia’s national teen choice awards for young adult literature.
The Inky Awards ask readers aged 12-20 to vote for their favourite books from a shortlist selected by a panel of teen judges from around Australia. Voting is conducted online through the State Library’s youth literature website insideadog.com.au and the shortlisted authors who receive the most votes win.
Victorian author Cath Crowley received the Gold Inky (best Australian book) for Words in deep blue, and British author Alice Oseman won the Silver Inky (best international title) for Radio Silence.
Crowley said: ‘I’m thrilled that Words in Deep Blue has won the 2017 Gold Inky. To receive an award for young adult fiction as decided by young adults is an incredible honour. Words in Deep Blue is about the importance of books, and the ways stories connect us, so receiving the award is wonderful proof that words matter, that stories matter.’
Winning Authors, Cath Crowley (left) and Alice Oseman .
At the Inky Awards ceremony.
Winning Authors, Cath Crowley (left) and Alice Oseman .
At the Inky Awards ceremony.
Mrs Janet Mitchell
Library Manager