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2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced

Friday, 20 December 2019   Books+Publishing
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The shortlists have been announced for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government.

The shortlisted titles are:

Children’s literature award ($15,000)

  • The Elephant (Peter Carnavas, UQP)
  • The House on the Mountain (Ella Holcombe, A&U)
  • Mallee Sky by (Jodi Toering, Walker Books)
  • Nevermoor: The trials of Morrigan Crow (Jessica Townsend, Hachette)
  • Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club (Tamsin Janu, Scholastic)
  • Young Dark Emu: A truer history (Bruce Pascoe, Magabala)

Young adult fiction award ($15,000)

  • After the Lights Go Out (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
  • Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)
  • The Centre of My Everything (Allayne Webster, Random House Children’s)
  • Neverland (Margot McGovern, Random House Children’s)
  • Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker Books)
  • A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)

Fiction award ($15,000)

  • The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text)
  • Dyschronia (Jennifer Mills, Picador)
  • The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press)
  • Saudade (Suneeta Peres da Costa, Giramondo)
  • A Stolen Season (Rodney Hall, Picador)
  • Taboo (Kim Scott, Picador)

John Bray Poetry Award ($15,000)

  • Archival-Poetics (Natalie Harkin, Vagabond Press)
  • Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
  • False Claims of Colonial Thieves (Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, Magabala)
  • The Lost Arabs (Omar Sakr, UQP)
  • Music our Bodies Can’t Hold (Andy Jackson, Hunter Publishers)
  • Viva the Real (Jill Jones, UQP)

Nonfiction award ($15,000)

  • The Bible in Australia: A cultural history (Meredith Lake, NewSouth)
  • Call of the Reed Warbler (Charles Massy, UQP)
  • Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia (Billy Griffiths, Black Inc.)
  • Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future (Alice Gorman, NewSouth)
  • Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U)
  • The Year Everything Changed: 2001 (Phillipa McGuinness, Vintage).

The following awards were open to South Australian writers:

Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award ($12,500)

  • ‘Forgiveness’ by Piri Eddy
  • ‘Karamazovs’ by Duncan Graham

Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award ($10,000)

  • ‘House’ by Alison Flett
  • ‘In the Room with the She Wolf’ by Jelena Dinic
  • ‘The Others’ by Diana Navarro
  • ‘Temperance’ by Carol Lefevre.

The winners of the Barbara Hanrahan and Max Fatchen fellowships, which are open to South Australian writers, will also be announced at a ceremony at Adelaide Writers’ Week on 29 February.

For more information, visit the State Library of South Australia website here.

 

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