Trudi Canavan wins Aurealis Award
Trudi Canavan has been awarded the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel for her 2009 novel The Magician’s Apprentice. Released in 2009 it was a prequel to her Black Magician Trilogy, a trilogy that also saw her nominated for Best Fantasy Novel in 2002 for the second novel, The Novice.
The Aurealis Award is an annual literary award, established in 1995 by the publishers of the Aurealis Magazine (for which Trudi used to work, as an art and cover editor, reading manuscripts and more). The award is divded into multiple categories across Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, as well as including sections for Young Adult and Children’s.
In 1999 Trudi won the Best Fantasy Short Story for her work Whispers of the Mist Children. She has also been nominated in the Ditmar Awards (another Australian award created in 1969) four times, and won once.
The Magician’s Apprentice takes place hundreds of years before the events in Canavan’s bestselling The Black Magician trilogy. Check out the review for it, as well as reviews for all three books from the original trilogy. Additionally, if you just can’t get enough Trudi Canavan, check out my interview with her published in August of 2009.
From all of us at Fantasy Book Review, we’d like to congratulate Trudi Canavan on her win!
For a full list of the winners of the 2009 winners visit the website here.
Posted: January 24th, 2010
Author: JoshSHill
Categories: Trudi Canavan
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