The longlist for the 2019 Voss Literary Prize has been announced., and I’ve read more than half of them.
The longlisted titles are:
- Flames by Robbie Arnott, see my review
- Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader, see my review
- The Making of Martin Sparrow by Peter Cochrane
- Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, see the SRB review
- The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
- Coach Fitz by Tom Lee, see my review
- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko, see my review
- The Everlasting Sunday by Robert Lukins, see my review and see Theresa Smith’s interview
- Preservation by Jock Serong, see my review
- The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton, on my TBR
Launched in 2014, the Voss Literary Prize is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux Voss. Last year’s winner was Bram Presser for The Book of Dirt.
For more information about the Voss Literary Prize prize, please see here.
Congratulations to all the authors, editors and publishers!
ANZ LitLovers LitBlog 
I hope The Book of Colours wins!
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on October 8, 2019
at 10:29 pm
Yes, but I want The Everlasting Sunday and Flames to win too.
(The other ones that I like have already won prizes, in Winton’s case, lots of them. IMO it’s high time he stopped entering).
I am wondering if I should read the Cochrane, do you know anyone who’s read it?
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By: Lisa Hill on October 9, 2019
at 9:13 am
I feel the same about Boy Swallows Universe, which is excellent, but has already won so much.
I requested the Cochrane for review back when it was released, but it never arrived. I read a good review on it some time ago over at Newtown Review of Books, but I haven’t seen any other commentary.
I liked Book of Colours far more than The Everlasting Sunday.
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on October 9, 2019
at 11:17 am
I know what you mean. The Everlasting Sunday is not a comfortable read at all. But very powerful. #Thinks I might read it again when we next have a scorcher, all that snow made me feel really cold!
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By: Lisa Hill on October 9, 2019
at 11:59 am
I think it wasn’t the right era of life for me to read it with two teenage sons. I appreciated it, but it was hard going at times.
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on October 9, 2019
at 12:22 pm
Yup, I can see that. I wouldn’t have liked it at that time of my life either.
Like just-a-girl by Kirsten Krauth. Great book, but very scary reading for parents of teenage girls.
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By: Lisa Hill on October 9, 2019
at 12:47 pm
Did you ever see this interview I did with Robert Lukins last year? It was around the time the novel was released.
https://theresasmithwrites.com/2018/02/21/behind-the-pen-with-robert-lukins/
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on October 10, 2019
at 8:14 am
How did I come to miss that? I’m going to add the link here and on my review of the book, thanks!
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By: Lisa Hill on October 10, 2019
at 9:21 am
Maybe just that it was so long ago.
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on October 10, 2019
at 12:55 pm
I think it may have been that I was reading the book at the time and I don’t like to be influenced by other reviews or interviews so I meant to come back to it later and it slipped my mind…
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By: Lisa Hill on October 10, 2019
at 1:14 pm
Could be!
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By: Theresa Smith Writes on October 10, 2019
at 1:28 pm
I have read five of these as well, including the ‘The Making of Martin Sparrow’ (which I enjoyed). A couple of the others are on my reading list.
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By: Jennifer on October 9, 2019
at 3:05 pm
That’s a good sign that a prize is getting it right, I reckon.
Though of course we want them to introduce us to books we might have missed too.
LOL That’s not too hard for them to get it right, eh?
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By: Lisa Hill on October 9, 2019
at 3:37 pm