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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced

Monday, 8 January 2018   Books+Publishing
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The shortlists have been announced for this year’s Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government.

The shortlisted works in each category are:

Children’s

  • Rockhopping (Trace Balla, A&U)
  • Dragonfly Song (Wendy Orr, A&U)
  • The Fall (Tristan Bancks, Random House)
  • How to Bee (Bren MacDibble, A&U)
  • Sister Heart (Sally Morgan, Fremantle Press)
  • The Other Christy (Oliver Phommavanh, Penguin)

Young Adult

  • Ballad for a Mad Girl (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
  • First Person Shooter (Cameron Raynes, MidnightSun)
  • My Sister Rosa (Justine Larbalestier, A&U)
  • Illuminae (Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, A&U)
  • One Thousand Hills (James Roy and Noel Zihabamwe, Scholastic)
  • The Boundless Sublime (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)

Fiction

  • Ghost River (Tony Birch, UQP)
  • The Last Garden (Eva Hornung, Text)
  • The World Without Us (Mirelle Juchau, Bloomsbury)
  • Some Tests (Wayne Macauley, Text)
  • From the Wreck (Jane Rawson, Transit Lounge)
  • A Loving Faithful Animal (Josephine Rowe, UQP)

Poetry

  • Ghostspeaking (Peter Boyle, Vagabond)
  • Missing Up (Pam Brown, Vagabond)
  • Year of the Wasp (Joel Deane, Hunter Publishers)
  • Inside My Mother (Ali Cobby Eckermann, Giramondo)
  • Fragments (Antigone Kefala, Giramondo)
  • Redactor (Eddie Paterson, Whitmore Press)

Nonfiction

  • Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery (Carol Lefevre, Wakefield Press)
  • Position Doubtful (Kim Mahood, Scribe)
  • Our Man Elsewhere (Thornton McCamish, Black Inc.)
  • The Boy behind the Curtain (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
  • Understory (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
  • Eat First, Talk Later (Beth Yahp, Random House)

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

  • ‘Prodigal Jones’ by Duncan Graham
  • ‘19 Weeks’ by Emily Steel
  • ‘Strata’ by Peter Beaglehole

The winner of each category will receive $15,000.

South Australian authors Poppy Nwosu and Annette Marner were shortlisted for the Arts South Australia Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award. The winner will receive $10,000 and have their manuscript published by Wakefield Press.

The winners of the Barbara Hanrahan, Max Fatchen and Tangkanungku Pintyanthi fellowships, worth $15,000 each, will be announced alongside the category winners at a ceremony at Adelaide Writers’ Week on 3 March.

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