The shortlist for this year's Age Book of the Year awards has been announced.
The awards, now in their 35th year, offer three $10,000 prizes, one each for a work of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The Book of the Year award, worth an additional $10,000, goes to one of the three category winners.
The shortlist is:
Novel:
- Burning In (Mireille Juchau, Giramondo Press)
- The Orphan Gunner (Sara Knox, Giramondo Press)
- Diary of a Bad Year (J M Coetzee, Text)
- Breath (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
- The Good Parents (Joan London, Vintage)
Nonfiction:
- I am Melba (Ann Blainey, Black Inc.)
- Van Diemen's Land (James Boyce, Black Inc.)
- An Exacting Heart (Jacqueline Kent, Viking)
- A Family History of Smoking (Andrew Riemer, MUP)
- American Journeys (Don Watson, Knopf)
Poetry:
- Not Finding Wittgenstein (J S Harry, Giramondo Press)
- Shades of the Sublime and the Beautiful (John Kinsella, Fremantle Press)
- Scar Revision (Tracy Ryan, Fremantle Press)
- Bark (Anthony Lawrence, UQP)
- Typewriter Music (David Malouf, UQP)
The awards will be presented at Melbourne Writers' Festival's opening night on August 22, and on August 23 a session will allow winning writers to read from and discuss their work. See www.mwf.com.au for more information.
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This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker
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