The 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Non-Fiction and Fiction shortlists have been announced.
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 (Black Inc.)
- Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley - Brian Dibble (UWA Press)
- Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History - Jenny Hocking (Melbourne University Publishing)
- The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island - Chloe Hooper (Penguin Books)
- House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann - Evelyn Juers (Giramondo)
- Drawing the Global Colour Line - Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (Melbourne University Publishing)
- The Henson Case - David Marr (Text Publishing)
- American Journeys - Don Watson (Random House)
Fiction
- The Pages - Murray Bail (Text Publishing)
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks (Harper Collins)
- Wanting - Richard Flanagan (Random House)
- Everything I Knew - Peter Goldsworthy (Penguin Books)
- One Foot Wrong - Sofie Laguna (Allen and Unwin)
- The Boat - Nam Le (Penguin Books)
- The Good Parents - Joan London (Random House)
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