2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. The awards, held annually, recognise literature's importance to our national identity, community and economy.
2010 shortlists announced
The 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fiction and Children’s Fiction shortlists have been announced.
Nine children's fiction and seven young adult fiction works, as well as seven fiction and six non-fiction works have made the 2010 shortlist, selected from more than 320 entries.
Children's fiction
- Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
- The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Andrew Joyner
- Just Macbeth by Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton
- Mr Chicken goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs
- Running with the Horses by Alison Lester
- Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood
- Mannie and the Long Brave Day by Martine Murray and illustrator Sally Rippin
- Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children by Jen Storer
- Harry and Hopper by Margaret Wild and illustrator Freya Blackwood
Fiction
- Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
- The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
- The Lakewoman by Alan Gould
- Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
- Ransom by David Malouf
- Lovesong by Alex Miller
- As the Earth turns Silver by Alison Wong
Non-fiction
- The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart
- Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness by Will Elliott
- The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
- The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
- The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
- The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker
Young adult fiction
- Stolen by Lucy Christopher
- The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke
- Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon
- The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds
- Swerve by Phillip Gwynne
- Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen
- Beatle meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams
