Details of the nominees for this year's "The Australian"/Vogel Literary Award have been announced.
One of the judges, John Dale, comments that he and his fellow judges (Murray Waldren and Marele Day) "were unanimous in agreeing that the level of accomplishment and confidence in the 2006 entries was higher than in any year during which we have been associated with the award." Given that the award has been won in the past by such Australian literary stalwarts as Kate Grenville and Tim Winton, this is saying something.
The shortlisted authors are:
Jeremy Aitken for The Bike
Belinda Castles for The River Baptists
Jarad Henry for Spider Web
Matthew Schreuder for Muscle
Anna Westbrook for Hey Sugar
You can find details of the award, along with a list of past winners at my Australian/Vogel Award website. Must get to fixing this sometime soon.
