The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary and History Awards have been announced.

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) and nominees for the People’s Choice Award:

• All That I Am (Anna Funder, Penguin)
• Sarah Thornhill (Kate Grenville, Text)
• Five Bells (Gail Jones, Vintage)
• The Life (Malcolm Knox, A&U)
• That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador)
• The Roving Party (Rohan Wilson, A&U)

Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction ($40,000):

• Sydney (Delia Falconer, NewSouth)
• How to Make Gravy (Paul Kelly, Hamish Hamilton)
• The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (Simon Leys, Black Inc.)
• An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (Mark McKenna, MUP)
• Her Father’s Daughter (Alice Pung, Black Inc.)
• The Many Worlds of RH Matthews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist (Martin Thomas, A&U)

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000):

• Sly Mongoose (Ken Bolton, Puncher & Wattmann)
• Cow (Susan Hawthorne, Spinifex Press)
• Southern Barbarians (John Mateer, Giramondo)
• Swallow (Claire Potter, Five Island Press)
• New and Selected Poems (Gig Ryan, Giramondo)
• The Argument (Tracy Ryan, Fremantle Press)

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000):

• A Straight Line to My Heart (Bill Condon, A&U)
• The Golden Day (Ursula Dubosarsky, A&U)
• Act of Faith (Kelly Gardiner, HarperCollins)
• The Dead I Know (Scot Gardner, A&U)
• Only Ever Always (Penni Russon, A&U)
• All I Ever Wanted (Vikki Wakefield, Text)

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000):

• Crow Country (Kate Constable, A&U)
• Taj and the Great Camel Trek (Rosanne Hawke, UQP)
• For all Creatures (Glenda Millard, illus by Rebecca Cool, Walker Books)
• Maudie and Bear (Jan Omerod, illus by Freya Balckwood, Little Hare)
• Angel Creek (Sally Rippin, Text)
• Bungawitta (Emily Rodda, illus by Craig Smith, Omnibus)

Community Relations Commission Award ($20,000):

• Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family (Tim Bonyhady, A&U)
• After Romulus (Raimond Gaita, Text)
• The Enemy at Home: German Internees in World War I Australia (Nadine Helmi & Gerhard Fischer, UNSW Press)
• Moving Stories (Alistair Thomson, UNSW Press)
• Violin Lessons (Arnold Zable, Text)

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5000):

• House of Sticks (Peggy Frew, Scribe)
• All That I Am (Anna Funder, Penguin)
• Past the Shallows (Favel Parrett, Hachette)
• Thrill Seekers (Edwina Shaw, Ransom Publishing)
• The Amateur Science of Love (Craig Sherborne, Text)
• The Roving Party (Rohan Wilson, A&U).

Australian History Prize ($15,000):

• Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation (Russell McGregor, Aboriginal Studies Press)
• An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (Mark McKenna, MUP)
• True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack (Brenda Niall, Text)

General History Prize ($15,000):

• Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family (Tim Bonyhady, A&U)
• Ben Jonson: A Life (Ian Donaldson, OUP)
• Hiroshima Nagasaki (Paul Ham, HarperCollins)

New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000):

• Set in Stone: A History of the Cell Block Theatre (Deborah Beck, UNSW Press)
• Sydney: The Making of a Public University (Julia Horne & Geoffrey Sherington, Miegunyah Press)
• Mr Big of Bankstown: The Scandalous Fitzpatrick and Brown Affair (Andrew Moore, UWA Publishing)

Young People’s History Prize ($15,000):

• The Little Refugee (Anh Do & Suzanne Do, illus by Brice Whatley, A&U)
• Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea (Stephanie Own Reeder, National Library of Australia)
• Playground (Nadia Wheatley, illus by Kean Searle, A&U).

The winners of the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards will be presented at the State Library of NSW on 30 November. For more information about the awards, visit the