ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

On Friday 12 September the Prime Minister will announce the fiction and non-fiction winners of the 2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, at an
evening ceremony at Parliament House. The winners will each receive a $100,000 tax free prize.
Check the website after 7pm this Friday to find out the winners of the awards.

Short list: Fiction

• Burning In Mireille Juchau (Giramondo)
•  El Dorado Dorothy Porter (Picador)
• Jamaica Malcolm Knox (Allen and Unwin)
• Sorry Gail Jones (Vintage)
• The Complete Stories David Malouf (Knopf)
• The Widow and Her Hero Tom Keneally (Doubleday) (Update 10/6/16 See my review)
• The Zookeeper’s War Steven Conte (Fourth Estate) (Update 10/6/16 See my review)

Short list: Non-fiction

• A History of Queensland Raymond Evans (Cambridge University Press)
• Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time Clive James (Picador)
• My Life as a Traitor Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman (Scribe)
• Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799 Philip Dwyer (Bloomsbury)
• Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers Philip Jones (Wakefield Press) (Update 10/6/16 See my review)
• Shakespeare’s Wife Germaine Greer (Bloomsbury) (Update 10/6/16 See my review)
• Vietnam: The Australian War Paul Ham (HarperCollins)