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Colin Roderick Award shortlist announced

Thursday, 12 September 2013   Books+Publishing
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The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

  • Toyo: A Memoir (Lily Chan, Black Inc.)
  • The Two Frank Thrings (Peter Fitzpatrick, Monash University Publishing)
  • The Meaning of Grace (Deborah Forster, Vintage)
  • Nine Days (Toni Jordan, Text)
  • The Daughters of Mars (Tom Keneally, Vintage)
  • True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack (Brenda Niall, Text)
  • Ray Parkin’s Odyssey: Sailor, Artist, Writer, Prisoner of War (Pattie Wright, Macmillan).

 

The winner of this year’s award will be announced on 17 October. The winner will receive a cash prize of $10,000 and the H T Preistley Medal.

The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University. The award recognises ‘the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life’, and is open to books published in the previous year in all fields, including fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Previous winners of the award include Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears (A&U) in 2012, Worst of Days by Karen Kissane (Hachette) in 2011, and The Water Dreamers by Michael Cathcart (Text) in 2010.

For more information about the award, visit the James Cook University website here.

 

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