It's all go on the literary award front with the release today of the shortlists for the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The winners will be announced by the Premier at a presentation dinner at Parliament House on 23 May 2005.
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($20,000)
Gail Jones Sixty Lights - Random House Australia Pty Ltd
Malcolm Knox A Private Man - Random House Australia Pty Ltd
Peter Kocan Fresh Fields - HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Ltd
Margo Lanagan Black Juice - Allen & Unwin
Célestine Hitiura Vaite Frangipani - The Text Publishing Company
Tim Winton The Turning - Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction ($20,000)
Robert Adamson Inside Out: An Autobiography - The Text Publishing Company
Robert Dessaix Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev - Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
Robyn Ferrell The Real Desire - Indra Publishing
Helen Garner Joe Cinque's Consolation - Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
Paul Ham Kokoda - HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Ltd
John Hughes The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays - Giramondo Publishing Company
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($15,000)
MTC Cronin
Lidija Cvetkovic War is Not the Season for Figs - University of Queensland Press
John Kinsella Doppler Effect - Salt Publishing
Dîpti Saravanamuttu The Colosseum Five - Islands Press
Samuel Wagan Watson Smoke Encrypted Whispers - University of Queensland Press
Alan Wearne The Lovemakers Book Two: Money and Nothing - ABC Books
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature ($15,000)
Michael Gerard Bauer The Running Man Omnibus - Books/Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd
Phillip Gwynne Jetty Rats - Penguin Group Australia
Steven Herrick By the River - Allen & Unwin
Joanne Horniman Secret Scribbled Notebooks - Allen & Unwin
Jenny Pausacker Dancing on Knives - Thomas C Lothian Pty Ltd
Patricia Wrightson Prize ($15,000)
Isobelle Carmody Angel Fever - Thomas C Lothin Pty Ltd
Sherryl Clark Farm Kid - Penguin Group Australia
Gary Crew & Steven Woolman (illus.) Beneath the Surface - Hodder Headline Australia
Sonya Hartnett The Silver Donkey - Penguin Group Australia
Martine Murray Henrietta - Allen & Unwin
Ruth Starke Orphans of the Queen - Thomas C Lothian Pty Ltd
Community Relations Commission Award ($15,000)
Lidija Cvetkovic War is Not the Season for Figs - University of Queensland Press
John Hughes The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays - Giramondo Publishing Company
Tony Kevin A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of SIEV X - Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Robert Manne with David Corlett Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference - Black Inc
Gleebooks Prize ($10,000)
Julia Baird Media Tarts: How the Australian Press Frames Female Politicians - Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Gillian Cowlishaw Blackfellas White Fellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race - Blackwell Publishing
Tony Kevin A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of SIEV X - Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Mark McKenna This Country: A Reconciled Republic? - UNSW Press Ltd
Deborah Bird Rose Reports From a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation - UNSW Press Ltd
UTS Award for New Writing ($5,000)
No short list with this.
Play Award ($15,000)
Donna Abela Tales from the Arabian Nights, Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image
Matt Cameron Hinterland, Melbourne Theatre Company
Melissa Reeves The Spook Company, B Belvoir St
Susan Rogers Night Letters, Playbox Theatre / Currency Press
Katherine Thomson Harbour, Sydney Theatre Company
Ian Wilding Torrez, Griffin Theatre Co / Currency Press
Script Writing Award ($15,000)
Betty Churcher The Art of War, Film Australia
Sharon Davis Two Weeks in Another Country - South Africa Ten Years After the End of Apartheid, ABC Radio National: Radio Eye
Tony Krawitz Jewboy, Porchlight Films Pty Ltd
Fiona Seres Fireflies: Episode 14, Southern Star
Nic Testoni & Jo Plomley Mr Patterns, Film Australia
The NSW Premier's Translation Prize ($15,000)
Christopher Andrews
Peter Boyle
Simon Patton
John Nieuwenhuizen
