2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards

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2010 shortlists announced

The 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists have just been announced. The awards are held annually and celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to our cultural and intellectual identity. The shortlists include categories for fiction, non-fiction, children's and young adult and were selected form more than 320 entries. Mosman Library holds copies of all titles appearing on the shortlists so check the catalogue. Look out for the winners in the coming months!

Fiction

• 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

Non-fiction

• 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

Young adult fiction

• 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

Children's fiction

• Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
• The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Andrew Joyner
• Just Macbeth by Andy Griffiths and illustrator 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 illustrator Sally Rippin
• Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children by Jen Storer
• Harry and Hopper by Margaret Wild and illustrator Freya Blackwood