2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction and Non Fiction 2009 Shortlists announced

[Lindach]

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 - Brian Dibble
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History - Jenny Hocking
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island - Chloe Hooper
House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann - Evelyn Juers
Drawing the Global Colour Line - Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
The Henson Case - David Marr
American Journeys - Don Watson
Fiction
The Pages - Murray Bail
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
Wanting - Richard Flanagan
Everything I Knew - Peter Goldsworthy
One Foot Wrong - Sofie Laguna
The Boat - Nam Le
The Good Parents - Joan London