The IBBY Australia Encouragement Award for a
Young emerging Author or Illustrator
Ena Noël Award Shortlist 2022
IBBY Australia will announce the winner on International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) 2nd April 2022. Join IBBY Australia now because, alongside this announcement of the Ena Nöel winner, we have a wonderful surprise project to share with our members as our celebration of ICBD this year.
The panel of judges are pleased to announce the Ena Nöel shortlist:
Freda Chiu, A Trip to the Hospital (Allen & Unwin)
Allen and Unwin: Freda Chiu is an author and illustrator from Sydney, Australia. As well as illustrating children's books, her work spans comics, editorial and retail graphics. Outside her art practice, Freda lectures in Illustration at the University of Technology Sydney.
Kay Kerr, Please Don’t Hug Me (Text Publishing)
Text Publishing: Kay Kerr is a former journalist and community newspaper editor from Brisbane, now living on the Sunshine Coast with her husband and daughter and working as a freelance writer.
Gary Lonesborough, The Boy from the Mish (Allen & Unwin)
Allen and Unwin: Gary Lonesborough is a Yuin man, who grew up on the Far South Coast of NSW as part of a large and proud Aboriginal family. Growing up a massive Kylie Minogue and North Queensland Cowboys fan, Gary was always writing as a child, and continued his creative journey when he moved to Sydney to study at film school. Gary has experience working in Aboriginal health, the disability sector (including experience working in the Youth Justice System), and the film industry. He was Bega Valley Shire Council Young Citizen of the Year, won the Patrick White Young Indigenous Writers' Award, and has received a Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship.
Jessica Miller, The Republic of Birds (Text Publishing)
Text Publishing: Jessica Miller is a children’s writer and PhD student from Brisbane, currently living in Germany. She has written for a variety of publications including Kill Your Darlings and Stilts. Her first novel, Elizabeth and Zenobia, was shortlisted for the Text Prize, the Readings Prize and was a CBCA Notable Book.
Kamsani Bin Salleh, What do you call a baby…? (Magabala Books)
Magabala Books: Kamsani Bin Salleh is descended from the Nimunburr, Bunuba and Yawuru peoples of the Kimberley and the Ballardong Noongar people of the Perth region in WA. He is an emerging artist/multi-media practitioner who is garnering attention for his ability to reflect the natural world with intricate designs and striking black line work. In 2016, Kamsani was one of ten artists asked to capture their view of Perth and WA as part of PerthNow’s 10th birthday celebrations. That same year he was awarded an Indigenous Creators Scholarship through Magabala Books to develop his skills as an illustrator. He holds a Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies from the University of WA and is currently the Creative Art Director for UniHall at UWA.
Kirli Saunders, Bindi illustrated by Dub Leffler (Magabala Books)
Magabala Books: Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai Woman and award-winning international writer of poetry, plays and picture books. She is a teacher, cultural consultant and artist. In 2020, Kirli was named the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year. Her verse novel, Bindi (Magabala Books) was the inaugural winner of the WA Premier's Book Awards.
About the Award
In 1994, founding president of IBBY Australia, Ena Noël OAM , founded her own biennial prize – the Ena Noël Award – to encourage young emerging writers and illustrators. The name was chosen, not so that Ena’s name would live on, but so that it was apparent to all concerned that she – someone highly regarded in the field – was trying to assist up-and-coming young Australian authors and illustrators for children. The award is a silver medallion designed by the first winner of the award, the Australian Aboriginal writer/illustrator Arone Raymond Meeks.
The IBBY Australia Encouragement Award for Children’s Literature is presented to a young developing Australian writer or illustrator. Only books by Australian creators published in the two years prior to the particular closing date can be nominated by the publishers for the Ena Noël award. The nominated creator must be under the age of 35 at the time the title (or titles) for which they are nominated was published. Any nominated author or illustrator has to be deemed by the judges to be worthy of encouragement.
Past Winners
2020 Jack Heath for 500 Minutes of Danger
2018 Will Kostakis for The Sidekicks
2016 Kate Gordon for Writing Clementine
2014 Melissa Keil for Life in Outer Space
2012 Amy Barker for Omega Park
2010 Lili Wilkinson for Scatterheart
2008 Markus Zusak for The Book Thief
2006 Anthony Eaton for Fireshadow and The girl in the cave
2004 Alyssa Brugman for Walking Naked
2002 Beth Norling for Cherryblossom and the Golden Bear (2000)
2000 Catherine Jinks for Piggy in the Middle (1998)
1998 Tohby Riddle for The Tip at the End of the Street (1996)
1997 Steve Woolman for his body of work
1996 Sonya Hartnett for Wilful Blue (1994)
1994 Arone Raymond Meeks for Enora and the Black Crane (1991)
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