NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)

• Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
• Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)
• The Life to Come (Michelle De Kretser, A&U)
• The Everlasting Sunday (Robert Lukins, UQP)
• Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
• The Shepherd’s Hut (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)

Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction ($40,000)

• Saga Land (Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason, HarperCollins)
• Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia (Billy Griffiths, Black Inc.)
• The Trauma Cleaner (Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
• The Erratics (Vicki Laveau-Harvie, Finch Publishing)
• Axiomatic (Maria Tumarkin, Brow Books)
• Tracker (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000)

• Interval (Judith Bishop, UQP)
• I Love Poetry (Michael Farrell, Giramondo Publishing)
• Things I’ve Thought To Tell You Since I Saw You Last (Penelope Layland, Recent Work Press)
• Wildlife of Berlin (Philip Neilsen, UWA Publishing)
• Blindside (Mark Reid, Puncher and Wattmann)
• Rondo (Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Carcanet Press)

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)

• Shine Mountain (Julie Hunt, A&U)
• Maya and Cat (Caroline Magerl, Walker)
• Leave Taking (Lorraine Marwood, UQP)
• Dingo (Claire Saxby & Tannya Harricks, Walker)
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Jessica Townsend, Lothian)
• The Dog with Seven Names (Dianne Wolfer, Penguin)

Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult’s Literature ($30,000)

• Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)
• Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker)
• I Am Out With Lanterns (Emily Gale, Random House Children’s)
• Amelia Westlake (Erin Gough, Hardie Grant Egmont)
• Stone Girl (Eleni Hale, Penguin)
• The Art of Taxidermy (Sharon Kernot, Text)

Multicultural NSW Award ($20,000)

• The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
• Rainforest (Eileen Chong, Pitt Street Poetry)
• Home Is Nearby (Magdalena McGuire, Impress Books)
• Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home (Sisonke Msimang, Text)
• Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
• Miss Ex-Yugoslavia (Sofija Stefanovic, Viking)

NSW Premier’s Prize for Translation (biennial award of $30,000)

• Harry Aveling
• Stephen Corcoran
• Alison Entrekin
• Penny Hueston
• Stephanie Smee
• Omid Tofighian(Highly Commended)

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5000) 

• Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text)
• Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)
• Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U)
• The Everlasting Sunday (Robert Lukins, UQP)
• Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Jamie Marina Lau, Brow Books)
• The Lucky Galah (Tracy Sorensen, Picador)

Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000)

• The Almighty Sometimes (Kendall Feaver, Currency Press)
• Oil Babies (Petra Kalive, Lab Kelpie)
• Going Down (Michele Lee, Malthouse Theatre)
• Lost Boys (Lachlan Philpott, Merrigong Theatre Company)
• The Long Forgotten Dream (H Lawrence Sumner, Sydney Theatre Company)
• Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Ursula Yovich & Alana Valentine, Belvoir Theatre)

Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000)

• Picnic at Hanging Rock, Episode 4 (Alice Addison, FremantleMedia Australia)
• Jirga (Benjamin Gilmour)
• Seoul City Sue (Noëlle Janaczewska, ABC Radio National)
• Mystery Road, Episode 5 ‘The Waterhole’ (Timothy Lee, Bunya Productions)
• Mystery Road, Episode 1 ‘Gone’ (Michaeley O’Brien, Bunya Productions)
• Riot (Greg Waters, Werner Film Production).

The winners will be announced at the beginning of the Sydney Writers’ Festival on 29 April. Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open now.

For more information on the awards, see the State Library of NSW website.

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