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1999 TDK Australian Audio Book Awards
The 1999 TDK Australian Audio Book Awards were presented at
a function at the National Library of Australia, Canberra on Tuesday 9 November
1999. The short-listed entries and details of the winners appear below:
Categories
- Falling Forward by David Metzenthen, narrated by Bill
Conn
Producer/Publisher Royal Blind Society
- Gilberts Ghost Train by David Metzenthen,
narrated by Stephen Gease
Producer/Publisher Louis Braille Books
- Red Golf Balls by Laurine Croasdale, narrated by Chris
Pitman and Anna Steen
Producer/Publisher ABC Audio Books
- Staying Alive in Year 5 by
John Marsden, narrated by Tim Ferguson (Winning
Entry)
Producer/Publisher Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
Scott and his friends are simply staying alive in year 5 until
their surprising new teacher, Mr Murlin, comes along. Boring textbooks go into
the bin, eating chocolate in class becomes compulsory and suddenly it is OK to
be weird. But Mr Merlin is not popular with everyone.
- Wonder Tales of Earth & Sea narrated by Jenni
Cargill with musical arrangements written and performed by Ian Blake
Producer/Publisher Jenni Cargill
- Cold Mountain by Charles
Frazier, narrated by Noel Hodda (Winning
Entry)
Producer/Publisher Royal Blind Society
A soldier wounded in the American Civil War, Inman turns his back
on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to
Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began.
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Isolde Martyn, narrated by
Rebecca Macauley
Producer/Publisher Bolinda Audio Books
- On Our Selection by Steele Rudd, narrated by David
Tredinnick
Producer/Publisher Louis Braille Audio
- Caddie by Caddie, narrated
by Helen Morse (Winning Entry)
Producer/Publisher Louis Braille Audio
Caddie is the true story of a sensitive, attractive girl left to
fend for herself and her two young children. Her desperate efforts to survive
and earn an existence in the hard times of the 1920s and 1930s lead her to many
jobs and situations. Working as a barmaid in a number of pubs, she sees the
Sydney scene on all levelsthe seamy underworld, middle-class
respectability and pseudo-gentility. Caddie is a battler, a girl with honest,
plain guts and, despite her troubles, she never goes under.
- Memories of a Fox by Harry Gallagher, narrated by Don
Reid
Producer/Publisher Royal Blind Society
- Max My Mate by Victoria Hazell, narrated by Arthur
Hennessey
Producer/Publisher Narkaling
- Oliver Twist* by Charles
Dickens, narrated by Edgar Metcalf (Winning
Entry)
Producer/Publisher Narkaling
London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry
10-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to and
only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds
some friendsFagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him
food and shelter and play games with him, but it is not until some days later
that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and the nature of the
games they play.
This book has been recorded at 90 words per
minute.
- Red Golf Balls by Laurine Croasdale, narrated by Chris
Pitman and Anna Steen
Producer/Publisher ABC Audio Books
- Staying Alive in Year 5 by John Marsden, narrated by
Tim Ferguson
Producer/Publisher Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
* The Abridged category failed to
attract enough entries for any competition. The one title offered is a
contender for the Narrators Award
- Wonder Tales of Earth and
Sea. Traditional stories, narrated by Jenni Cargill
Producer: Jenni Cargill
With her infectious enthusiasm, storyteller Jenni Cargill draws
the listener into the exotic world of story: adventure stories, a Dreamtime
story, participation songs and wonder tales from many corners of the earth and
even the depths of the sea!
- ABC Enterprises
ABC Enterprises
Attn: Laurine Croasdale
GPO Box
9994 Sydney NSW 2001
Tel: 02 9950 3978
Fax: 02 9950 3884
Web:
http://www.abc.net.au/corp/enterpri.htm#top
Bolinda Audio Books (Bolinda Audio Logo
= 3 trees) (Winner)
Bolinda Audio Books
Attn: Rebecca Walshe
17 Morh
Street, Tullamarine,VIC 3432
Tel: 03 9338 0666
Fax: 03 9335
1903
Email:
rebecca@arpar.com.au
Bolinda Publishing produces specialist
products including unabridged audio books. Bolindas publishing program
endeavours to focus mainly on titles written by Australian authors or with
Australian themes. Bolinda is the distributor for a range of international
agencies.
Narkaling Inc.
Narkaling Inc.
Attn: Marion Slany
PO Box 1409,
Midland, WA 6936
Tel: 08 9274 8022
Fax 08 9274 8362
E-mail: narkalin@wantree.com.au
Web:
http://www.wantree.com.au/~narkalin
Sponsored by TDK (Australia) Pty Ltd and administered by
the National Library of Australia
Contact:
Hélène Anderson
TDK Audio Book Awards
Coordinator
Tel (02) 6262 1139
Fax (02) 6273 4493