The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Communications and the Arts, Senator Mitch Fifield.
The Awards support appreciation of Australian literature and provide recognition for both authors and illustrators.
“I am pleased to announce this year’s shortlists. We have a wonderful group of talented authors and I welcome the opportunity to share their works with Australians,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison
Minister Fifield said reading has far reaching benefits, it expands our understanding and stimulates our imagination. These Awards reinforce the importance of literature and reading across all ages.
This year saw more than 500 entries made across the six categories of Children’s literature, Young Adult literature, Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction and Australian history.
Here are the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlisted titles:
Children’s literature
Feathers, Phil Cummings and Phil Lesnie
Figgy Takes the City, Tamsin Janu
Hark, It’s Me, Ruby Lee!, Lisa Shanahan and Binny Talib
Pea Pod Lullaby, Glenda Millard and Stephen Michael King
Storm Whale, Sarah Brennan and Jane Tanner
Young Adult literature
Living on Hope Street, Demet Divaroren
My Lovely Frankie, Judith Clarke
The Ones that Disappeared, Zana Fraillon
This is My Song, Richard Yaxley
Fiction
A Long Way from Home, Peter Carey
Border Districts, Gerald Murnane
First Person, Richard Flanagan
The Life to Come, Michelle de Kretser
Poetry
Archipelago, Adam Aitkens
Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria, Brian Castro
Domestic Interior, Fiona Wright
Transparencies, Stephen Edgar
Non-fiction
Asia’s Reckoning, Richard McGregor
Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s
No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces at War in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders, Stuart Kells
Unbreakable, Jelena Dokic and Jessica Halloran
Australian history
Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians, Jayne Persian
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney, Paul Irish
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901,Timothy Rowse
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, Judith Brett
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