The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have today been announced. These awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia.

Here are the full shortlists…

Children’s literature

• Feathers by Phil Cummings & Phil Lesnie
• Figgy Takes the City by Tamsin Janu
• Hark, It’s Me, Ruby Lee! by Lisa Shanahan & Binny Talib
• Pea Pod Lullaby by Glenda Millard & Stephen Michael King
• Storm Whale by Sarah Brennan & Jane Tanner

Young Adult literature

• Living on Hope Street by Demet Divaroren
• My Lovely Frankie by Judith Clarke
• Ruben by Bruce Whatley
• The Ones that Disappeared by Zana Fraillon
• This is My Song by Richard Yaxley

Fiction

• A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
• Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
• First Person by Richard Flanagan
• Taboo by Kim Scott
• The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser

Poetry

• Archipelago by Adam Aitken
• Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro
• Chatelaine by Bonny Cassidy
• Domestic Interior by Fiona Wright
• Transparencies by Stephen Edgar

Non-fiction

• Asia’s Reckoning by Richard McGregor
• Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
• No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces at War in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
• The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders Stuart Kells
• Unbreakable by Jelena Dokic & Jessica Halloran

Australian history

• Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians by Jayne Persian
• Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul Irish
• Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Timothy Rowse
• John Curtin’s War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia (Volume 1) by John Edwards
• The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett

You can learn more about the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – as well as read the judges’ comments on this year’s shortlisted titles – here.