The shortlists for the 2010 "Age" Book of the Year Award have been released.
The shortlisted works are:
Fiction
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Summertime by J.M Coetzee
The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
Lovesong by Alex Miller
Come Inside by G.L. Osborne
Non-Fiction
Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
Flying with Paper Wings by Sandy Jeffs
Listening to Country by Ross Moriarty
The Lost Mother by Anne Summers
Otherland by Maria Tumarkin
Poetry
A Whistled Bit of Bop by Ken Bolton
Authentic Local by Pam Brown
Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
Wimmera by Homer Rieth
The winners will be announced during the upcoming Melbourne Writers Festival.
The shortlisted works are:
Fiction
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Summertime by J.M Coetzee
The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
Lovesong by Alex Miller
Come Inside by G.L. Osborne
Non-Fiction
Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
Flying with Paper Wings by Sandy Jeffs
Listening to Country by Ross Moriarty
The Lost Mother by Anne Summers
Otherland by Maria Tumarkin
Poetry
A Whistled Bit of Bop by Ken Bolton
Authentic Local by Pam Brown
Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
Wimmera by Homer Rieth
The winners will be announced during the upcoming Melbourne Writers Festival.
