The 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced! Established in 2008, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards are Australia’s richest literary prize with a total prize pool of $600,000 to winners and shortlisted authors across the six categories.
The following books were shortlisted in each award category:
Fiction
- A World of Other People by Steven Carroll (HarperCollins)
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Vintage Australia)
- The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (Penguin: Hamish Hamilton)
- Coal Creek by Alex Miller (Allen & Unwin)
- Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell (Text Publishing)
Non-Fiction
- Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey (University of Queensland Press)
- The Lucky Culture by Nick Cater (HarperCollins Publishers)
- Citizen Emperor by Philip Dwyer (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Rendezvous with Destiny by Michael Fullilove (Penguin)
- Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca (Text Publishing)
Prize for Australian History
- Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont (Allen & Unwin)
- First Victory 1914 by Mike Carlton (Random House)
- Australia’s Secret War: How unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II by Hal G.P. Colebatch (Quadrant Books)
- Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke (Hardie Grant Books)
- The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright (Text Publishing)
Poetry
- Tempo by Sarah Day (Puncher & Wattmann Poetry)
- Eldershaw by Stephen Edgar (Black Pepper)
- 1953 by Geoff Page (University of Queensland Press)
- Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call by Melinda Smith (Pitt Street Poetry)
- Chains of Snow by Jakob Ziguras (Pitt Street Poetry)
Young Adult Fiction
- The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna (Giramondo)
- Pureheart by Cassandra Golds (Penguin)
- Girl Defective by Simmone Howell (Pan Macmillan)
- Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil (Hardie Grant Egmont)
- The First Third by Will Kostakis (Penguin)
Children’s Fiction
- Silver Buttons by Bob Graham (Walker Books )
- Song for a Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt (Allen & Unwin)
- My Life as an Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg (Allen & Unwin)
- Kissed by the Moon by Alison Lester (Puffin)
- Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan (Hachette)
