The shortlist for the Age Book of the Year 2012 awards has recently been announced. It’s an interesting list, with a number of authors recognised who have been absent from other big award shortlists:
Fiction
- What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
- Spirit House by Mark Dapin
- The Meaning of Grace by Deborah Forster
- Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital
- Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
Non-Fiction
- 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
- Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
- Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
- Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor
- Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White
Poetry
- First Light by Kate Fagan
- The Welfare of my Enemy by Anthony Lawrence
- The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems by Mal McKimmie
- Late Night Shopping by Rhyll McMaster
- Surface to Air by Jaya Savige
The winner of each category will win $2500, with the overall winner receiving an extra $10000. The winners will be announced at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival on August 23. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors!
