Curtis Brown Australia - Welcome to Curtis Brown

Curtis Brown (Australia) Pty Ltd.
Literary Agents
Post Office Box 19
Paddington NSW 2021
Tel 61 2 9361-6161
61 2 9331-5301
Fax 61 2 9360-3935

Website Design: James Williams

Welcome to Curtis Brown

Curtis Brown is Australia’s oldest and largest literary agency and represents a diverse range of Australian and New Zealand writers.

On this site you will find information about our agency, how we operate, how to submit material to us, and selected clients and Estates represented.

Our Sydney office is open 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. We prefer initial contact to be by email.

News

Congratulations to Christos Tsiolkas for being longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Slap.

Congratulations to Thomas Keneally who was awarded the General Nonfiction Book of the Year for his historical work Australians: Origins to Eureka (A&U) at the recent Australian Book Industry Awards 2010.

Congratulations to Anna Goldsworthy for winning Newcomer of the Year for her memoir Piano Lessons (Black Inc) also at the Australian Book Industry Awards 2010.

Congratulations to Freya Blackwood for winning the highly prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for her work on Harry and Hopper (Omnibus Books).

Congratulations to our finalists for the Romantic Book of the Year Awards 2010, Romantic Elements Category: Bronwyn Parry for Dark Country and Katherine Scholes for The Hunter’s Wife. Dark Country by Bronwyn Parry is also shortlisted in the 2010 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense in the Single Title Romantic Mystery/Suspense category (Romance Writers of America).

Congratulations to Anna Goldsworthy, whose book Piano Lessons (Black Inc.) has been shortlisted in the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards in two categories, General Non-Fiction Book of the Year and Newcomer of the Year (debut writer).

Congratulations to Pamela Rushby (When the Hipchicks Went to War) for winning the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010.

Congratulations to Bronwyn Parry (Dark Country), finalist in the romantic suspense category of the Romance Writers of America RITA Awards.

Congratulations to David Metzenthen (Jarvis 24) and Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood (Clancy & Millie and the Very Fine House) for being shortlisted for 2010 CBCA Awards.

Congratulations to Tom Keneally (The People's Train) for being longlisted for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. The award shortlist will be announced in April, with the winner to be awarded at a presentation dinner on 22 June.

Congratulations to Christopher Cheng for winning the 2009 Lady Cutler Award for his service and devotion to Australian children's literature.

Congratulations to Kristina Olsson on winning the $35,000 Barbara Jefferis Award for her novel The China Garden.

Congratulations to Justin D'Ath (Spider Bait), Andy Griffiths (Mascot Madness) and Belinda Murrell (Locket of Dreams) for being shortlisted for the West Australian Young Reader's Book Award 2010.