The shortlisted works for the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards have been released.
The shortlists are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey, Penguin Group Australia
The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro, Giramondo Publishing
Summertime, J.M. Coetzee, Random House Australia
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey, Allen & Unwin
Truth, Peter Temple, Text Publishing
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War, Rodney Hall, Murdoch Books
A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty, Kirsten McKenzie, UNSW Press
Captain Cook Was Here, Maria Nugent, Cambridge University Press
Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter, Maria Tumarkin, Random House Australia
Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life, Brenda Walker, Penguin Group Australia
The Young Adult Fiction Prize
Raw Blue, Kirsty Eagar, Penguin Group Australia
Swerve, Phillip Gwynne, Penguin Group Australia
Beatle Meets Destiny, Gabrielle Williams, Penguin Group Australia
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
Beneath Our Armour, Peter Bakowski, Hunter Publishers
Possession, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Five Islands Press
The Adoption Order, Ian McBryde, Five Islands Press
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Moth, Declan Greene, Arena Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre
And No More Shall We Part, Tom Holloway, A Bit Of Argy Bargy
Furious Mattress, Melissa Reeves, Malthouse Theatre
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Patriot Acts, Waleed Aly, The Monthly
Stupid Money, Gideon Haigh, Griffith Review
Seeing Truganini, David Hansen, Australian Book Review
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Winsome of Rangoon, Michelle Aung Thin
House of Sticks, Peggy Frew
Cambodia Darkness and Light, Andrew Nette
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Shutting Down Sharleen, Eurydice Aroney and Tom Morton, Hindsight, ABC Radio National
Who Killed Mr Ward?, Janine Cohen and Liz Jackson, Four Corners, ABC Television
Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull, Annabel Crabb, Quarterly Essay
The Prize for First Book of History
From Superwoman to Domestic Goddesses: the Rise and Fall of Feminism, Natasha Campo, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939, Clare Corbould, Harvard University Press
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France, Julie Kalman, Cambridge University Press
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Legacy, Larissa Behrendt, University of Queensland Press
Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth, University of Queensland Press
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?, Lorraine McGee-Sippel, Magabala Books
The winners will be announced at a dinner to be held on September 28th.
