Age Book of the Year 2024 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2024 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced.

The shortlisted works in each category are:

Fiction

• Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP)
• Anniversary (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
• One Day We’re All Going to Die (Elise Hearst, HQ Fiction)
• The Idealist (Nicholas Jose, Giramondo)
• Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood, A&U)
• But the Girl (Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, Hamish Hamilton)

Nonfiction

• Bennelong & Phillip: A history unravelled (Kate Fullagar, Scribner)
• Home Work: Essays on love and housekeeping (Helen Hayward, Puncher & Wattman)
• Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths (Matthew Lamb, Knopf)
• Life So Full of Promise: Further biographies of Australia’s lost generation (Ross McMullin, Scribe)
• A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette)
• Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity (Ellen van Neerven, UQP).

Judges for this year’s awards include bookseller Mark Rubbo and writer and former publisher Louise Swinn (fiction); as well as writer Simon Caterson and historian Joy Damousi (nonfiction).

Winners will be announced by Age editor Patrick Elligett during the Melbourne Writers Festival opening gala on 8 May, with each category winner to receive $10,000.

In last year’s awards, Robbie Arnott won the fiction award for Limberlost (Text) and Kim Mahood won the nonfiction prize for Wandering with Intent (Scribe).

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