It certainly is the season for literary awards and shortlists.

Here is the latest:

The 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Non-Fiction and Fiction shortlists.Some great reads by Australian authors to follow up.



Seven fiction and eight non-fiction works have made the 2009 shortlists, selected from more than 250 entries:



Non-Fiction

Van Diemen's Land - James Boyce

Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley -… Continue

The winners for 2009 are:



Best first fiction

Ghostlines - Nick Gadd

Best Fiction – joint winners

Peter Corris - Deep Water

Kel Robertson - Smoke & Mirrors

True crime

Chloe Hooper - The Tall Man

SD Harvey Short… Continue

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