Zane Lovitt Wins Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction
We're pleased to announce that Europa author Zane Lovitt has won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction for his debut novel, The Midnight Promise. Established by the Crime Writers Association of Australia, the award is among the most prestigious for Australian crime fiction and is a huge honor for both Europa and Lovitt. Below is an excerpt from Melbourne newspaper The Age about Lovitt's win:
There's only one gun in Zane Lovitt's crime fiction homage to the hard-boiled detective, The Midnight Promise, and that gun doesn't work.
Lovitt's tale of cynical detective working Melbourne's Chinatown district was named best first fiction by the Australian Crime Writers' Association at a presentation ceremony on Saturday; proving the hard-nosed, crack-wise detectives and private investigators of yesteryear are alive and thriving, albeit with modern story twists.
The Ned Kellys are awarded annually to the best crime, thriller and mystery writing in Australia writing, with past winners including Peter Temple, Michael Robotham and Peter Corris.
Described by Lovitt as an anti-hero, P.I. John Dorn isn't a "Jason Bourne or a Dirty Harry." Rather, Lovitt suggests, "with an Australian setting it behooves you to be more character-based and tell stories that are more realistic." Read the full article here and visit our Midnight Promise page to find a synopsis and recent reviews.
There's only one gun in Zane Lovitt's crime fiction homage to the hard-boiled detective, The Midnight Promise, and that gun doesn't work.
Lovitt's tale of cynical detective working Melbourne's Chinatown district was named best first fiction by the Australian Crime Writers' Association at a presentation ceremony on Saturday; proving the hard-nosed, crack-wise detectives and private investigators of yesteryear are alive and thriving, albeit with modern story twists.
The Ned Kellys are awarded annually to the best crime, thriller and mystery writing in Australia writing, with past winners including Peter Temple, Michael Robotham and Peter Corris.
Described by Lovitt as an anti-hero, P.I. John Dorn isn't a "Jason Bourne or a Dirty Harry." Rather, Lovitt suggests, "with an Australian setting it behooves you to be more character-based and tell stories that are more realistic." Read the full article here and visit our Midnight Promise page to find a synopsis and recent reviews.