The shortlisted titles for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced, revealing a strong list of contenders across all categories: fiction, non-fiction, young adult, poetry and drama. The winning author of each category receives $25,000, as well as automatically goes in the running for the Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000.
Here are the shortlists for 2013.
FICTION:
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
- Coal Creek by Alex Miller
- Eyrie by Tim Winton
- The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
NON-FICTION:
- White Beech by Germaine Greer
- On Warne by Gideon Haigh
- Gardens of Fire by Robert Kenny
- Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson
- Forgotten War by Henry Reynolds
- Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca
YOUNG ADULT:
- My Life as an Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg
- Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
- Wildlife by Fiona Wood
POETRY:
- Autoethnographic by Michael Brennan
- Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden
- Travelling Through the Family by Brendan Ryan
DRAMA:
- The Secret River by Andrew Bovell
- Savages by Patricia Cornelius
- Medea by Anne-Louise Sarks and Kate Mulvany
A big congratulations to all the authors and publishers. The winners will be announced next year on January 28.
