Congratulations to the authors shortlisted for the 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards recognise and reward excellence in Australian literature and history. Award Categories are fiction, poetry, non-fiction, Australian history, young adult fiction and children’s fiction.

Fiction

• Amnesia by Peter Carey
• Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
• In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
• The Golden Age by Joan London
• To Name Those Lost by Rohan Wilson

Non-fiction

• Encountering the Pacific: In the Age of Enlightenment by John Gascoigne
• John Olsen: An Artist’s Life by Darleen Bungey
• Private Bill by Barrie Cassidy
• This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
• Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall by Michael Wilding

Young adult fiction

• Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth
• The Astrologer’s Daughter by Rebecca Lim
• The Minnow by Diana Sweeney
• The Protected by Claire Zorn
• Tigers on the Beach by Doug MacLeod

Children’s fiction

• My Dad is a Bear by Nicola Connelly and illustrated by Annie White
• My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald and illustrated by Freya Blackwood
• One Minute’s Silence by David Metzenthen and illustrated by Michael Camilleri
• Two Wolves by Tristan Bancks
• Withering-by-Sea by Judith Rossell

Poetry

• Devadatta’s Poems by Judith Beveridge
• Earth Hour by David Malouf
• Exhibits of the Sun by Stephen Edgar
• Poems 1957–2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann
• Towards the Equator: New & Selected Poems by Alex Skovron

Prize for Australian History

• Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart
• Descent into Hell by Peter Brune
• Menzies at War by Anne Henderson
• The Europeans in Australia—Volume Three: Nation by Alan Atkinson
• The Spy Catchers—The Official History of ASIO Vol 1 by David Horner

These Awards play an important role in celebrating the outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards provide prizes of $80,000 in each of the six categories for winning titles and $5,000 each for the shortlisted.

For more information see the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Website.