Scribe is delighted to share that two of our titles have been shortlisted at the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards.
1 August, 2024
The Palestine Laboratory and Gunflower shortlisted at the Queensland Literary Awards
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein has been shortlisted for the The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award.
Specified for outstanding works of nonfiction, the judges commented, ‘this thoroughly researched account is a timely examination of the many crossroads that link occupation with the ongoing commercialisation of the military technologies of surveillance and control that are exported for profit across the world.’
Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay has been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection.
Awarded for an outstanding collection of short stories by an Australian author, the judges commended the collection as ‘poetic, unsettling, and profoundly thought-provoking, Gunflower deftly probes the questions of our time, weaving social, feminist, and environmental themes into its narratives. McKay’s is an accomplished and haunting collection.’
Congratulations to all of the authors, illustrators, and publishers who have made this year’s shortlists!
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 5 September.
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The Palestine Laboratory
WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF PEOPLE’S CHOICE AT THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA SOCIAL IMPACT BOOK OF THE YEAR
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel’s occupation-enforcing technologies.
For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an ‘enemy’ population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control, using the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world.
The Palestine Laboratory shows in depth and for the first time how Israel has become a leader in developing spying technology and defence hardware that fuels some of the globe’s most brutal conflicts — from the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos’s and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, and the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas, to the drones being used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.
In a global investigation that uncovers secret documents, based on revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting, Antony Loewenstein shows how, as ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate tools for despots and democracies.
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Gunflower
The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of The Animals in That Country.
A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men.
With her trademark humour, energy, and flair, McKay offers glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk like humans.
The stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerising ways, showing the world both as it is and as it could be.
