Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Friday, 13 September 2019 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlists for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced.
The shortlisted titles in each category are:
Fiction
- A Stolen Season (Rodney Hall, Picador)
- Beautiful Revolutionary (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe)
- Saudade (Suneeta Peres da Costa, Giramondo)
- The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text)
- Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Nonfiction
- A Certain Light: A memoir of family, loss and hope (Cynthia Banham, A&U)
- Axiomatic (Maria Tumarkin, Brow Books)
- Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 (Paul Genoni & Tanya Dalziell, Monash University Publishing)
- Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up (Gabrielle Chan, Vintage)
- The Arsonist: A mind on fire (Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton)
Australian history
- Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar performance (Anna Haebich, UWA Publishing)
- Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia (Billy Griffiths, Black Inc.)
- The Bible in Australia: A cultural history (Meredith Lake, NewSouth)
- The Land of Dreams: How Australians won their freedom, 1788–1860 (David Kemp, The Miegunyah Press)
- You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world (Clare Wright, Text)
Poetry
- Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
- Click here for what we do (Pam Brown, Vagabond)
- Newcastle Sonnets (Keri Glastonbury, Giramondo)
- Sun Music: New and selected poems (Judith Beveridge, Giramondo)
- Viva the Real (Jill Jones, UQP)
Children’s fiction
- His Name Was Walter (Emily Rodda, HarperCollins)
- Sonam and the Silence (Eddie Ayres, illus by Ronak Taher, A&U)
- The Feather (Margaret Wild, illus by Freya Blackwood, Little Hare)
- The Incredible Freedom Machines (Kirli Saunders, illus by Matt Ottley, Scholastic)
- Waiting for Chicken Smith (David Mackintosh, Little Hare)
Young adult fiction
- Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)
- Cicada (Shaun Tan, Lothian)
- Lenny’s Book of Everything (Karen Foxlee, A&U)
- The Art of Taxidermy (Sharon Kernot, Text)
- The Things That Will Not Stand (Michael Gerard Bauer, Omnibus).
The winners in each category will receive $80,000 and the shortlisted writers each receive $5000. All prizes are tax-free.
The winners will be announced later this year. To read the judges’ comments for each shortlisted book, see the website.
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