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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 42 | December 1999
TDK Audio Book Awards. And the winners are ...
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Cordelia Dalton (for Jenni Cargill), Pauline Meany (Louis Braille
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Dr Margaret Scott, poet, writer and television personality was guest speaker at the TDK Australian Audio Book Awards function held on Tuesday November 9 in the Theatre of the National Library of Australia. Well over 100 people attended the awards presentation ceremony and the reception that followed in the foyer.
This year, in addition to the four audio book categories (Young People, Unabridged Non-Fiction, Unabridged Fiction and Abridged Audio Books), the Promotion and Marketing Award category was introduced by TDK. This award is aimed at creating awareness of audio books in libraries and bookshops through marketing or promoting a specific category. TDK funded the Promotion and Marketing Award with the sum of $1500 as prize money for the winner.
The abridged book category now comprises fiction and non-fiction. However, in 1999, since there was only one entry in this category, there could be no competition. The single entry audio book was therefore short-listed for the Trish Trinick prize.
The winners for 1999 are:
Audio Book for Young
People
Staying Alive in Year 5 by John Marsden, narrated by Tim
Ferguson
Producer: Pan Macmillan Australia P/L
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 Murlin is not popular with everyone.
Unabridged Non-Fiction
Caddie by Caddie, narrated by Helen Morse
Producer: Louis Braille Books
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 through 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, but despite her troubles, she never goes under.
Unabridged Fiction
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, narrated by Noel Hodda
Producer: 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.
Trish Trinick Prize for
the Best Narrator
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, narrated by Edgar
Metcalfe
Producer: Narkaling Inc.
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 true nature of the games they play.
This book has been recorded at 90 words per minute.
Special 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.
Marketing and
Promotions Award
Bolinda Audio Books
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. The firm
is the distributor for a range of international agencies.
Please address any comments and enquiries to The Editor, Gateways: lkirwan@nla.gov.au