Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlists 2010
JA
July 15
Here are the shortlisted titles for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, which also include two new categories: children’s fiction and young adult fiction (hurrah for YA!). The winners, announced later this year, will be awarded $100 000. (via Readings)
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2010 Fiction Shortlist
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
The Lakewoman by Alan Gould
Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
Ransom by David Malouf
Lovesong by Alex Miller
As the Earth turns Silver by Alison Wong
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2010 Non-Fiction Shortlist
The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart
Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness by Will Elliott
The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2010 Children’s Fiction Shortlist
Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner
Just Macbeth by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
Mr Chicken goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs
Running with the Horses by Alison Lester
Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood
Mannie and the Long Brave Day by Martine Murray and Sally Rippin
Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children by Jen Storer
Harry and Hopper by Margaret Wild and Freya Blackwood
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2010 Young Adult Fiction Shortlist
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke
Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon
The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds
Swerve by Phillip Gwynne
Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen
Beatle meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams
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Comments
15 Jul 10 at 16:00
I would love to see Dog Boy take the honour — such an innovative take on an old motif. Congratulations to all.
...15 Jul 10 at 20:18
I agree with plumeofwords that Dog Boy is a wonderful book. BUT I reckon it’s gong to be hard to beat Coetzee’s Summertime – what a ripper of a novel that is.
...20 Jul 10 at 15:19
But no poetry award in the mix- still. Hard to take any of it seriously, therefore.
(And, yes, arguments were put, at the awards instigation but no-one was listening. So, their world is prosaic only – pity.)
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