The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have announced the shortlists for 2019.
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were first established in 1985 to recognise and celebrate Australian writing.
Administered by The Wheeler Centre on behalf of the Premier of Victora, the awards are given across a range of categories including fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, writing for young adults as well as a biennial prize for Indigenous Writing and a prize for an Unpublished Manuscripts.
The winners of each category go on to compete for the overall Victorian Prize for Literature which awards the winner $100,000 – making it the most valuable literary prize in Australia.
The winners will be announced on the 31st of January, however, in the meantime scroll down to view the titles that have been shortlisted.
Congratulations to all the authors and publishers!
FICTION
Flames by Robbie Arnott (Text Publishing)
Ironbark by Jay Carmichael (Scribe Publications)
The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese by Moreno Giovannoni (Black Inc. Books)
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones (Text Publishing)
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)
The Madonna of the Mountains by Elise Valmorbida (Faber & Faber)
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NON-FICTION
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani (Picador Australia)
Staying: A Memoir by Jessie Cole (Text Publishing)
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper (Penguin Random House Australia)
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin)
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic (Penguin Random House Australia)
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin (Brow Books)
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DRAMA
The Almighty Sometimes by Kendall Feaver (Currency Press, in association with Griffin Theatre Company)
Going Down by Michele Lee (Malthouse Theatre)
Barbara and the Camp Dogs by Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine (Currency Press, in association with Belvoir)
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POETRY
Flood Damages by Eunice Andrada (Giramondo Publishing)
Tilt by Kate Lilley (Vagabond Press)
Milk Teeth by Rae White (University of Queensland Press)
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WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough (Hardie Grant Egmont)
Between Us by Clare Atkins (Black Inc. Books)
Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina (Allen & Unwin)
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INDIGENOUS WRITING
Common People by Tony Birch (University of Queensland Press)
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)
Taboo by Kim Scott (Picador Australia)
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker (Magabala Books)
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UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
Wedding Cake Island by John Byron
Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
Frontier Sport by Wayne Marshall
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Fiction
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau (Brow Books)
Non-fiction
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths (Black Inc. Books)
One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton (Melbourne University Publishing)
Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home by Sisonke Msimang (Text Publishing)
Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law by Kate Rossmanith (Hardie Grant Books)
Drama
Lethal Indifference by Anna Barnes (Sydney Theatre Company)
In the Club by Patricia Cornelius (State Theatre Company of South Australia)
Poetry
Body of Work by Elena Gomez (Cordite Publishing)
Subtraction by Fiona Hile (Vagabond Press)
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker (Magabala Books)
Young Adult
After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)
Tin Heart by Shivaun Plozza (Penguin Random House Australia)
Unpublished Manuscript
The Fogging by Luke Horton
This Wasn’t Meant To Be Me by Allee Richards
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