2015 Stella Prize Shortlist Announced

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From more than 150 entries, this year’s Stella Prize judges – critic and writer Kerryn Goldsworthy (chair); journalist and broadcaster Caroline Baum; writer and lecturer Tony Birch; singer–songwriter Sarah Blasko; and acclaimed author Melissa Lucashenko – selected a longlist of twelve books that they have now narrowed down to a shortlist of six.

In alphabetical order of author surname, the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist is:

Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Hachette)

The Strays by Emily Bitto (Affirm Press)

The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally (Black Inc)

The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna (Allen & Unwin)

The Golden Age by Joan London (Random House)

Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven (UQP)

The 2015 Stella Prize will be awarded in Melbourne on the evening of Tuesday 21 April.