Demand for Australian children’s books is booming. Picture by Jerry Wang at Unsplash.
A new research paper, Success story: International rights sales of Australian-authored books 2008-2018, conducted between the Australia Council for the Arts, Macquarie University and the Copyright Agency, reveals the growth of Australian books in international markets.
Success Story is the first time that international rights sales for Australian literature have been collated and analysed.
Thuy On is Reviews Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the books editor of The Big issue for 8 years. Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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