The shortlisted works for the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards have been released.
The category lists are:
Fiction
Like Being a Wife by Catherine Harris (Vintage)
The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick Holland (Transit Lounge)
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregfor (Scribe)
Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith (Allen & Unwin)
Bereft by Chris Womersely (Scribe)
Non-Fiction
Sydney by Delia Falconer (New South)
A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W. K. Hancock by Jim Davidson (UNSW Press)
When It Rains by Maggie MacKellar (Vintage)
When Horse Became Saw by Anthony Macris (Viking)
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas (Allen & Unwin)
Poetry
Sly Mongose by Ken Bolton (Puncher &Wattmann)
Supermodernprayerbook by Susan Bradley Smith (Salt)
This Floating World by Libby Hart (5 Islands Press)
Porch Music by Cameron Lowe (Whitmore Press)
Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter (University of Queensland Press)
The awards will be presented on August 25 during the Melbourne Writers Festival.
The category lists are:
Fiction
Like Being a Wife by Catherine Harris (Vintage)
The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick Holland (Transit Lounge)
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregfor (Scribe)
Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith (Allen & Unwin)
Bereft by Chris Womersely (Scribe)
Non-Fiction
Sydney by Delia Falconer (New South)
A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W. K. Hancock by Jim Davidson (UNSW Press)
When It Rains by Maggie MacKellar (Vintage)
When Horse Became Saw by Anthony Macris (Viking)
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas (Allen & Unwin)
Poetry
Sly Mongose by Ken Bolton (Puncher &Wattmann)
Supermodernprayerbook by Susan Bradley Smith (Salt)
This Floating World by Libby Hart (5 Islands Press)
Porch Music by Cameron Lowe (Whitmore Press)
Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter (University of Queensland Press)
The awards will be presented on August 25 during the Melbourne Writers Festival.
