Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Fiction

• A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton)
• Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
• First Person (Richard Flanagan, Knopf)
• Taboo (Kim Scott, Picador)
• The Life to Come, Michelle de Kretser, A&U)

Poetry

• Archipelago (Adam Aitken, Vagabond Press)
• Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria (Brian Castro, Giramondo)
• Chatelaine (Bonny Cassidy, Giramondo)
• Domestic Interior (Fiona Wright, Giramondo)
• Transparencies (Stephen Edgar, Black Pepper)

Australian history

• Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (Jayne Persian, NewSouth)
• Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney (Paul Irish, NewSouth)
• Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 (Timothy Rowse, NewSouth)
• John Curtin’s War: The Coming of War in the Pacific, and Reinventing Australia, Volume 1 (John Edwards, Viking)
• The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (Judith Brett, Text)

Nonfiction

• Asia’s Reckoning (Richard McGregor, Allen Lane)
• Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s (Sheila Fitzpatrick, MUP)
• No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces at War in Afghanistan (Chris Masters, A&U)
• The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders (Stuart Kells, Text)
• Unbreakable (Jelena Dokic & Jessica Halloran, Ebury)

Children’s fiction

• Feathers (Phil Cummings & Phil Lesnie, Scholastic)
• Figgy Takes the City (Tamsin Janu, Scholastic)
• Hark, It’s Me, Ruby Lee! (Lisa Shanahan & Binny Talib, Lothian)
• Pea Pod Lullaby (Glenda Millard & Stephen Michael King, A&U)
• Storm Whale (Sarah Brennan & Jane Tanner, A&U)

Young adult fiction

• Living on Hope Street (Demet Divaroren, A&U)
• My Lovely Frankie (Judith Clarke, A&U)
• Ruben (Bruce Whatley, Scholastic)
• The Ones that Disappeared (Zana Fraillon, Lothian)
• This is My Song (Richard Yaxley, Scholastic).

The winners in each category will receive $80,000 and the shortlisted writers will each receive $5000. All prizes are tax-free.

The winners will be announced later this year. For more information about the awards, see the website.

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