Category Archives: Literary Awards

2013 Prime Minister Lit Award Winners Announced

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Fiction

Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser

Nonfiction

The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis

Poetry

Jam Tree Gully: Poems by John Kinsella

Prize for Australian History

Farewell, Dear People by Ross McMullin

Young adult fiction

Fog a Dox by Bruce Pascoe

Children’s fiction

Red by Libby Gleeson

The winners of each of the categories receive a tax-free cash prize of $80,000, with each shortlisted author receiving $5000 tax-free

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Commonwealth Book Prize 2103 Shortlist

Books by Australian authors shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize are:

Floundering (Romy Ash, Text)
Mazin Grace (Dylan Coleman, UQP)
A Tiger in Eden (Chris Flynn, Text)
The Last Thread (Michael Sala, Affirm)
Beneath the Darkening Sky (Majok Tulba, Penguin).

Works by Australian and New Zealand writers shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize are:

Not for Publication (Rachel Bush, New Zealand)
Things with Faces (Zoe Meager, New Zealand)
Mortal Sins (Sinead Roarty, Australia)
Tug of War (Deborah Rogers, New Zealand)
Raven (Tom Williams, Australia).

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