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The 2022 Age Book of the Year Shortlists have been announced! This year the award will once again include a prize for works of nonfiction as well as for fiction.

Fiction

In Moonland by Miles Allinson
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
The Signal Line by Brendan Colley
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid

Nonfiction

Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
Leaping Into Waterfalls by Bernadette Brennan
The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler
The Uncaged Sky by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Astronomy: Sky Country by Karlie Noon & Krystal De Napoli
Childless by Sian Prior

Each winner will receive $10,000. The winners will be announced during this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival opening gala on Thursday 8 September.

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