The shortlisted works for the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last Friday (11 August) and somehow I contrived to miss seeing the list before today. You can get full details of the award at the State Library of Victoria's website.
The shortlisted works are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey [Knopf/Random House]
Slow Man, J. M. Coetzee [Knopf/Random House]
The Secret River, Kate Grenville [Text Publishing]
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany [Picador/Pan Macmillan]
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1800, Richard Broome [Allen & Unwin]
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography, Helen Ennis [National Gallery of Australia]
Bernard Shaw: A Life, Anthony M. Gibbs [UNSW Press]
East of Time, Jacob G. Rosenberg [Brandl and Schlesinger}
Hoi Polloi, Craig Sherborne [Black Inc]
The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
Universal Andalusia, Brett Dionysius [Soi 3/Papertiger Media]
The Kindly Ones, Susan Hampton [Five Islands Press]
Urban Myths: 210 Poems, John Tranter [University of Queensland Press]
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Checklist for an Armed Robber, Vanessa Bates [Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre]
Ruby's Last Dollar, Reg Cribb [Pork Chop Productions]
Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon, Stephen Sewell [Adelaide Festival]
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Theodora's Gift, Ursula Dubosarsky [Penguin]
The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley, Martine Murray [Allen & Unwin]
Losing It, Lizzie Wilcock [Scholastic Press]
The Prize for a First Book of History
Human Remains, Helen MacDonald [Melbourne University Press]
Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet, Maria Nugent [Allen & Unwin]
Traumascapes, Maria Tumarkin [Melbourne University Press]
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
The Tortures of Heritage, Waleed Aly [The Age]
Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia, Judith Brett, 'Quarterly Essay', [Black Inc]
Is the Media Asleep?, David Marr from "Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia?" [Black Inc]
The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Suburban Mayhem, Alice Bell [Suburban Mayhem Pty Ltd]
Last Train to Freo, Reg Cribb [Taylor Media]
Noise, Matthew Saville [Retroactive Films]
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Watershed, Fabienne Bayet-Charlton [IAD Press]
Sweet Guy, Jared Thomas [IAD Press]
Little Black Bastard, Noel Tovey [Hachette Livre Australia]
Swallow the Air, Tara June Winch [University of Queensland Press]
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Aether, Kate Cole-Adams
Rohypnol, Andrew Hutchinson
Among the Dead, Chris Womersley
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
When in Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita, Penelope Green [Hachette Livre Australia]
The Olive Sisters, Amanda Hampson [Penguin]
From Tuscany to Victoria: The Life and Work of Pietro Baracchi, Carlo Catani, Ettore Checchi, Daniela Volpe [Italian Australia Institute]
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Information idol - How Google is Making Us Stupid, Gideon Haigh [The Monthly]
The Tall Man, Chloe Hooper [The Monthly]
Generation Lost in the Desert, Frontier Too Far and Scams in the Desert, Nicholas Rothwell [The Australian]
Ties That Bind, Margaret Simons [Griffith Review]
In 2006 the following awards will NOT be offered: The Prize for Science Writing and The Dinny O'Hearn Prize for Literary Translation.
The winners will be announced by the Victorian Premier on Monday 4 September.
