The 2023 Age Book of the Year Shortlists have been announced! Each winner will receive $10,000. The winners will be announced during this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival opening night on Thursday 4 May.

Fiction

• Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
• Every Version of You by Grace Chan
• A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
• Funny Ethnics by Shirley Le
• The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
• Faithless by Alice Nelson

Nonfiction

• The All of It by Cadance Bell
• Childhood by Shannon Burns
• Suburban Noir by Peter Doyle
• Raised by Wolves by Jess Ho
• Wandering with Intent by Kim Mahood
• Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters by Mandy Sayer