The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have today been announced. These awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia.
Here are the full shortlists…
Children’s literature
- Feathers by Phil Cummings & Phil Lesnie
- Figgy Takes the City by Tamsin Janu
- Hark, It’s Me, Ruby Lee! by Lisa Shanahan & Binny Talib
- Pea Pod Lullaby by Glenda Millard & Stephen Michael King
- Storm Whale by Sarah Brennan & Jane Tanner
Young Adult literature
- Living on Hope Street by Demet Divaroren
- My Lovely Frankie by Judith Clarke
- Ruben by Bruce Whatley
- The Ones that Disappeared by Zana Fraillon
- This is My Song by Richard Yaxley
Fiction
- A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
- Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
- First Person by Richard Flanagan
- Taboo by Kim Scott
- The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
Poetry
- Archipelago by Adam Aitken
- Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro
- Chatelaine by Bonny Cassidy
- Domestic Interior by Fiona Wright
- Transparencies by Stephen Edgar
Non-fiction
- Asia’s Reckoning by Richard McGregor
- Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
- No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces at War in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
- The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders Stuart Kells
- Unbreakable by Jelena Dokic & Jessica Halloran
Australian history
- Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians by Jayne Persian
- Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul Irish
- Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Timothy Rowse
- John Curtin’s War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia (Volume 1) by John Edwards
- The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
