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
