The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. These awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia.
Here are the full shortlists…
Children’s literature
- His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda
- Sonam and the Silence by Eddie Ayres, illustrated by Ronak Taher
- The Feather by Margaret Wild, illustrated by Freya Blackwood
- The Incredible Freedom Machines by Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Matt Ottley
- Waiting for Chicken Smith by David Mackintosh
Young Adult literature
- Between Us by Clare Atkins
- Cicada by Shaun Tan
- Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
- The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot
- The Things That Will Not Stand by Michael Gerard Bauer
Fiction
- A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
- Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
- Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa
- The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Poetry
- Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
- Click Here For What We Do by Pam Brown
- Newcastle Sonnets by Keri Glastonbury
- Sun Music by Judith Beveridge
- Viva the Real by Jill Jones
Non-fiction
- A Certain Light by Cynthia Banham
- Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
- Half the Perfect World by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
- Rusted Off by Gabrielle Chan
- The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
Australian history
- Dancing in Shadows by Anna Haebich
- Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths
- The Bible in Australia by Meredith Lake
- The Land of Dreams by David Kemp
- You Daughters of Freedom by Clare Wright
