Newly published in the UK, Greta & Valdin is this year’s entry in the contemporary fiction category, Hot European Postgrad Novel — think languid, vibey, literary romances about underfed but over-holidayed history of art students set in Dublin, Stockholm or Gothenburg. But now, thanks to the New Zealander Rebecca K Reilly’s zany, screwballin’ debut novel, the trend has gone global.

Longtime collaborators Nick Cave and Warren Ellis will provide the score for the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black.

Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean has been nominated for the City Music Foundation Young Artist Award. Lotte’s career has gone from strength to strength in recent seasons, and she is now represented worldwide by Rayfield Allied.

The Venice Biennale has announced the artists participating in this year’s international exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque, Foreigners Everywhere. 

We're thrilled to announce that Mary Strang, FANZA co-chair, has been nominated for the prestigious UK New Zealander of the Year Award 2024. This recognition is a well-deserved nod to her outstanding contribution to the arts and her commitment to supporting the cultural exchange between New Zealand and Australia and the UK.

We're thrilled to share that Australian author Richard Flanagan's latest non-fiction work, Question 7, a compelling exploration of the choices we make in love and the ensuing chain reactions, will be published in the UK on 30 May 2024.

It was a joyful fundraising evening for FANZA when a group of trustees and special friends of the charity saw the delightful 5-star musical, Crazy For You, at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London.

Australian musician and comedian Tim Minchin has released a live performance of his album Apart Together to mark three years since its release. He filmed the show at the iconic Trackdown Studio in Sydney.

Congratulations to Australian composer Brett Dean, whose Cello Concerto has won the 2023 Ivor Novello Award for Best Orchestral Composition.

Selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023, Eleanor Catton has given a new interview to the literary magazine - video below - and an extract from her next book, Doubtful Sound.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), Joseph Tawadros and The Vampires featuring Chris Abrahams, have all taken home the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) music awards for best albums at the annual ceremony held on 15 November.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are about to start mixing their new album, Cave has revealed.

Donna Hay, Australia’s most trusted and bestselling cookbook author, returns with a follow up to her much-loved bestselling classic, Even More Basics to Brilliance. 

Gallery director and former FANZA trustee Rebecca Hossack returned to her native Australia last week for the 2023 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin. It was a glorious week celebrating the strength and richness of Australian indigenous culture - a culture that the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery has supported and promoted over the last 35 years.

The Edinburgh festivals are in full swing, and House of Oz – the Fringe’s award-winning Australian artist platform – has returned following its dazzling debut last year. This week, FANZA Co-Chair Michael Whalley OAM attended a special reception hosted by the Australian High Commissioner to the UK, HE The Hon Stephen Smith, for House of Oz at the spectacular King’s Hall venue in Edinburgh.

The award-winning Australian artist platform at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, House of Oz, has partnered with London's favourite Aussie-inspired independent cafe and restaurant group, the Daisy Green Collection, to present "an exciting culinary journey to match the breadth of talent to be discovered onstage".

Recorded live at the 2023 Sydney Writers’ Festival, celebrated actor - and FANZA arts patron - Sam Neill shares stories from his memoir Did I Ever Tell You This, a wild and witty account of a career in film and TV spanning half a century.

House of Oz, the colourful artist platform at Edinburgh Fringe, has been announced as one of seven innovative and exciting projects supported through the Australian government's International Cultural Diplomacy Arts Fund to showcase Australian talent on the international stage.