ABR Photos

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Peter Rose and Sarah Holland-Batt at an ABR function in Sydney 

Dan Disney, winner of the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, at ABR

Peter Rose and Sheila Fitzpatrick in conversation at the State Library of Victoria as Fitzpatrick becomes the third ABR Laureate, 2023.

Peter Rose, Sheila Fitzpatrick and Monash Dean of Arts Katie Stevenson at the Laureate event at the State Library of Victoria, 2023.

A. Frances Johnson wins the 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize (photograph by David Johns)

Peter Rose interviews ABR Laureate David Malouf in Adelaide, 2019

Lisa Gorton speaks at an ABR function, 2019

Billy Griffiths speaks at an ABR function, 2019

(L-R): Peter Rose with Rae Frances (centre) and Calibre Essay Prize winners David Hansen and Grace Karskens, August 2019

Helen Daniel (Editor of ABR 1995–2000) with Robert Dessaix, a contributor since 1981

Judge Maxine Beneba Clarke and Jolley Prize winner Sonja Dechian at the 2019 Jolley Prize ceremony (photograph by Daniel O'Brien)

2019 Jolley Prize shortlist (L-R): Morgan Nunan, Sonja Dechian, Raaza Jamshed (photograph by Daniel O'Brien)

Peter Rose interviews George Megalogenis at Clunes Booktown Festival, 2019

The 2019 Porter Prize shortlist: Ross Gillett, Mark Tredinnick, Belle Ling, Andy Kissane, and John Foulcher

The 2019 Porter Prize joint winners: Belle Ling and Andy Kissane

ABR Fellow Beejay Silcox in Cairo, Egypt (November, 2018)

John Hawke Morag Fraser Nicholas Wong Peter Rose Porter Prize event 2018

Peter Rose and Sarah Holland Batt at Writers Week 2018 

Peter Rose and Pam Brown at Writers Week 2018

Porter Prize 2017

Christopher Menz leads the 2017 ABR UK tour.

Michael Adams and Darius Sepehri at Calibre Essay Prize event 2017

2017 States of Poetry Tasmania

Peter Rose and Robert Silvers at NYRB 2016

ABR US cultural tour at the Clark Institute 2016

Geraldine Brooks Ambassador Caroline Millar Anna Funder ABR US tour 2016

ABR US tour at Concord 2016

ABR team with Rae Frances at Monash launch 2

Robyn Archer launches the Arts issue 2016

2016 Porter Prize Amanda Joy

ABR Patrons Annual Lecture with Kim Williams 2016

ABR Patrons Annual Lecture 2016 Kim Williams

Ashley Hay visits the ABR office in 2015

ABR Deputy Editor Amy Baillieu edits the first ABR Podcast in 2015.

Jonathan Galassi and Peter Rose at the 2015 Brisbane Writers' Festival

2014 Calibre Essay Prize winner Christine Piper signs the guestbook at ABR.

2014 ABR Patrons' Fellow Shannon Burns

ABR Eucalypt Australia (formerly known as the Dahl Trust) Fellow Danielle Clode at the launch of the Environment issue, 2014

ABR Laureate David Malouf speaks at an ABR event, 2014

Morag Fraser speaks at an ABR event, 2014

Jennifer Down wins the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Andy Griffiths and Gerald Murnane at an event at Boyd, 2013

Lisa Gorton and Ian Donaldon speak at the first Fireside Chat at Boyd, 2012

Peter Rose, Morag Fraser, and Rodney Hall at opening of Boyd in 2012

ABR moved to Boyd Community Hub in Southbank in 2012

Ian Dickson, Carrie Tiffany, and Gregory Day at the 2011 Jolley Prize ceremony

ABR Board 2011 Ian Donaldson, Paul Hetherington, Anne Edwards, Peter Rose, Editor Morag Fraser, Chair Colin Golvan and Anna Goldsworthy.

Ian Donaldson gives the ABR Fiftieth Birthday Lecture at the National Library of Australia in 2011

The 2003 National Biography Award was shared by Don Watson and Peter Rose

Peter Rose and Peter Porter 2002

Current Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review, Peter Rose

Peter Rose and Terry Cutler at the launch of the 2001 Summer issue