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2008 Inky Award Winners Announced

7 November 2008

Teen author James Roy scooped the Golden Inky for his novel Town at the 2008 Inky Awards at the State Library last night. Hosted by the Library's Centre for Youth Literature (CYL), the Inkys are Australia's only teenage choice book awards.

James Roy's collection of short stories set in a country town was judged the best Australian teen book of the year and won the author $2000 in prize money.

First time novelist Jenny Downham won the Silver Inky, awarded to the best international book, for her heart wrenching tale Before I Die.

The Inky Award winners are chosen by young people across Australia through the CYL website insideadog.

This year a longlist of ten Australian and ten international books selected by CYL were narrowed down by a panel of four teenage judges, 2007 Golden Inky winner Simmone Howell and Darwin-based librarian and comedian Andrew Finegan.

The top three books in each category were posted on the insideadog website and readers under 20 voted for their favourites.

The Inkys Creative Reading Prize, awarded to a young person for their creative response to one of the longlisted books, went to 14-year-old Jessica Yu for her innovative response to Before I Die.