Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners

The winners of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced recently.
The winning books in the two categories are:

Non-Fiction
Ochre and rust: artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers - Philip Jones

Fiction
The zookeeper's war - Steven Conte

The shortlists are
Fiction
Burning in - Mireille Juchau
El Dorado - Dorothy Porter
Jamaica - Malcolm Knox
Sorry - Gail Jones
The complete short stories - David Malouf
The widow and her hero - Thomas Keneally
The zookeeper's war - Steven Conte

Non-Fiction
A history of Queensland - Raymond Evans
Cultural amnesia: notes in the margin of my time - Clive James
My life as a traitor - Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman
Napoleon: the path to power 1769 - 1799 - Philip Dwyer
Ochre and rust: artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers - Philip Jones
Shakespeare's wife - Germain Greer
Vietnam: the Australian war - Paul Ham

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