Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2009 shortlist

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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