The Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists 2019
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. These awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia.
Here are the full shortlists…
Children’s literature
- His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda
- Sonam and the Silence by Eddie Ayres, illustrated by Ronak Taher
- The Feather by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Freya Blackwood
- The Incredible Freedom Machines by Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Matt Ottley
- Waiting for Chicken Smith by David Mackintosh
Young Adult literature
- Between Us by Clare Atkins
- Cicada by Shaun Tan
- Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
- The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot
- The Things That Will Not Stand by Michael Gerard Bauer
Fiction
- A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
- Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
- Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa
- The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Poetry
- Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
- Click Here For What We Do by Pam Brown
- Newcastle Sonnets by Keri Glastonbury
- Sun Music by Judith Beveridge
- Viva the Real by Jill Jones
Non-fiction
- A Certain Light by Cynthia Banham
- Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
- Half the Perfect World by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
- Rusted Off by Gabrielle Chan
- The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
Australian history
- Dancing in Shadows by Anna Haebich
- Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths
- The Bible in Australia by Meredith Lake
- The Land of Dreams by David Kemp
- You Daughters of Freedom by Clare Wright