The 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists were announced in Australia last week. The list contains the title of many authors whose works can be found here at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Check our catalog to find the authors or titles that interest you.

Fiction shortlist:

- Summertime, J.M. Coetzee
- The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
- The Lakewoman, Alan Gould
- Dog Boy, Eva Hornung
- Ransom, David Malouf
- Lovesong, Alex Miller
- As the Earth Turns Silver, Alison Wong

Non-Fiction shortlist:

- The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent, Michael Cathcart
- Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness, Will Elliott
- The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, Grace Karskens
- The Life and Death of Democracy, John Keane
- The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, Mark Tredinnick
- The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker

Young Adult Fiction shortlist:

- Stolen, Lucy Christopher
- The Winds of Heaven, Judith Clarke
- Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God, Bill Condon
- The Museum of Mary Child, Cassandra Golds
- Swerve, Phillip Gwynne
- Jarvis 24, David Metzenthen
- Beatle Meets Destiny, Gabrielle Williams

Children’s Fiction shortlist:

- Cicada Summer, Kate Constable
- The Terrible Plop, Ursula Dubosarsky (illustrated by Andrew Joyner)
- Just Macbeth, Andy Griffiths (illustrated by Terry Denton)
- Mr Chicken Goes to Paris, Leigh Hobbs
- Running with the Horses, Alison Lester
- Star Jumps, Lorraine Marwood
- Mannie and the Long Brave Day, Martine Murray (illustrated by Sally Rippin)
- Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children, Jen Storer
- Harry and Hopper, Margaret Wild (illustrated by Freya Blackwood)