The 2021 Age Book of the Year shortlist
The 2021 Age Book of the Year Shortlist has been announced!
The seven works of fiction in the running for the $10,000 prize are:
- The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
- The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
- The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
- A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
- The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
- Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
- Born into This by Adam Thompson
After a nine-year hiatus, the The Age Book of the Year award has returned and is once again in partnership with Melbourne Writers Festival. This award recognises outstanding works of local fiction that were published between 1 June 2020 and 31 May 2021. The judges for this year’s prize were the Age books editor Jason Steger, poet and critic Thuy On, and author and former literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald Susan Wyndham.
