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…

Fiction

• The Death of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
• Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
• Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
• The Yield by Tara June Winch
• The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

Non-fiction

• Hearing Maud by Jessica White
• Sea People by Christina Thompson & William Collins
• See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
• Songspirals by Gay’wu Group of Women
• The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat by Tim Bonyhady

Australian history

• From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage by Judith Brett
• Meeting the Waylo by Tiffany Shellam
• Progressive New World by Marilyn Lake
• Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields by Susan Lawrence & Peter Davies
• The Oarsmen by Scott Patterson

Poetry

• Birth Plan by LK Holt
• Empirical by Lisa Gorton
• Heide by π.O.
• The Future Keepers by Nandi Chinna
• The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr

Young Adult literature

• The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
• How it Feels to Float by Helena Fox
• The Honeyman and the Hunter by Neil Grant
• When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn
• This Is How We Change The Ending by Vikki Wakefield

Children’s literature

• Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back by Johanna Bell & Dion Beasley
• One Careless Night by Christina Booth
• Winter of the White Bear by Martin Ed Chatterton
• Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay
• Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines by Jasmine Seymour & Leanne Mulgo Watson

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.