More shortlists.
The winners will be announced on Spetember 1.
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction *
The Pages by Murray Bail
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Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
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The Boat by Nam Le
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Breath by Tim Winton
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The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2009 Shortlist *
The City's Outback by Gillian Cowlishaw
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Arabesques by Robert Dessaix
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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
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House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroger-Mann by Evelyn Juers
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Darwin's Armada by Iain McCalman
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry 2009 Shortlist *
The Golden Bird by Robert Adamson
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Fishing in the Devonian by Carol Jenkins
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The Other Way Out by Bronwyn Lea
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama *
Realism by Paul Galloway
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Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd by Lally Katz
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The Modern International Dead by Damien Millar
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction *
The Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman
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The Beginner's Guide to Living by Lia Hills
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Something in the World Called Love by Sue Saliba
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate *
'We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough' by Tom Griffiths
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The Henson Case by David Marr
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'Ratbags at the Gates' by Helen O'Neil (Griffith Review 23)
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia *
Death in the Mountains by Lisa Clifford
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Neither Here nor There: Italians and Swiss-Italians on the Walhalla goldfield 1865-1915 by Annamaria Davine
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And Be Home Before Dark by Roland Rocchiccioli
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism *
'The Guards' Story' by Peter Cronau and Quentin McDermott (Four Corners)
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'The Penalty is Death: Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison' by Luke Davies (The Monthly)
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'A Week in Kinglake' by Michael Vincent (ABC Radio)
The Prize for Best Music Theatre Script *
Poor Boy by Matt Cameron and Tim Finn
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Shane Warne The Musical by Eddie Perfect
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Metro Street by Matthew Robinson
The Prize for Science Writing *
Pasteur's Gambit by Stephen Dando-Collins
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Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action by David Spratt and Philip Sutton
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The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia by Patricia Vickers-Rich
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer *
Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth
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Like Being a Wife by Catherine Harris
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The Sunlit Zone by Lisa Jacobson
Are you looking for a great book to read over the summer break? The shortlist for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards run by The Wheeler Centre has just been announced. These titles are some of the best of Australian writing that is perfect for those long hot summer nights. Check out The Wheeler's Centre page for more information and click on a title to reserve it today.
Fiction
The snow kimono by Mark Henshaw.
'Acute misfortune'. The life and death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen.