Age Book of the Year 2012 shortlists announced

Saturday, 4 August 2012 Books+Publishing

The shortlists for this year’s Age Book of the Year Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:

Nonfiction

1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (James Boyce, Black Inc.)
Hiroshima Nagasaki (Paul Ham, HarperCollins)
Kinglake-350 (Adrian Hyland, Text)
Fishing the River of Time (Tony Taylor, Text)
Double Entry (Jane Gleeson-White, A&U)

Poetry

First Light (Kate Fagan, Giramondo)
The Welfare of my Enemy (Anthony Lawrence, Puncher & Wattmann)
The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems (Mal McKimmie, Five Island Press)
Late Night Shopping (Rhyll McMaster, Brandl & Schlesinger)
Surface to Air (Jaya Savige, UQP)

Fiction

What the Family Needed (Stephen Amsterdam, Sleepers)
Spirit House (Mark Dapin, Pan Macmillan)
The Meaning of Grace (Deborah Forster, Vintage)
Forecast: Turbulence (Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate)
Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U).

The winner in each category will receive $2500—down from $10,000 in each category in 2011. The overall winner will receive an additional $10,000. The winners will be announced at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival on 23 August.

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