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

Fiction

• A Treacherous Country by K M Kruimink
• In the Time of Foxes by Jo Lennan
• Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos
• The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
• The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

YA literature

• Loner by Georgina Young
• Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore
• The End of the World is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell
• The F Team by Rawah Arja
• When Rain Turns to Snow by Jane Godwin

Children’s literature

• Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai
• How to Make a Bird by Meg McKinlay and illustrated by Matt Ottley
• The January Stars by Kate Constable
• The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty and illustrated by Kelly Canby
• The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks

Non-fiction

• Flight Lines by Andrew Darby
• The Altar Boys by Suzanne Smith
• The Details by Tegan Bennett Daylight
• The Stranger Artist by Quentin Sprague
• Truganini by Cassandra Pybus

Australian history

• Ceremony Men by by Jason M Gibson
• Pathfinders by Michael Bennett
• People of the River by Grace Karskens
• Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 by Amanda Harris
• The Convict Valley by Mark Dunn

Poetry

• Change Machine by Jaya Savige
• Homer Street by Laurie Duggan
• Nothing to Declare by Mags Webster
• Shorter Lives by John A Scott
• The Strangest Place by Stephen Edgar

The winners in each category receive $80,000 and the shortlisted writers each receive $5000. 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.