Today is the 84th birthday of J. M. Coetzee, who was born #OTD in 1940 in Cape Town and won, among many other things, the @Thebookerprizes TWICE (83 + 99) & the 2003 @nobelprize for Fiction! 🎂
Australian publisher Lisa Berryman, and Perth based author Tim Winton, were yesterday inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Hall of Fame, for their decades of contribution to Australian publishing and literature.