Awards

Miles Franklin Literary Award

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 Longlist

Winner 2010 -Truth Peter Temple

Man Booker
Winner 2010

The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson

Shortlist:

Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
Room - Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut

The Long Song - Andrea Levy
C - Tom McCarthy

2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlist

Fiction

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

The Water Dreamers - Michael Cathcart
Strange Places - Will Elliott
The Colony - Grace Karskens
The Life and Death of Democracy - John Keane
The Blue Plateau - Mark Tredinnick
The Ghost at the Wedding - Shirley Walker

Young Adult Fiction

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

Cicada Summer - Kate Constable
The Terrible Plop - Ursula Dubosarsky
Just Macbeth - Andy Griffiths
Mr Chicken Goes to Paris - Leigh Hobbs
Running with the Horses - Alison Lester
Starjumps - Lorraine Marwood
Mannie and Long Brave Day - Martine Murray
Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children - Jen Storer
Harry and Hopper - Margaret Wild

The Age
Book of the Year 2010

Fiction

Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
Summertime - J.M. Coetzee
The World Beneath - Cate Kennedy
Lovesong - Alex Miller
Come Inside - G.L Osborne

Non-Fiction

Ten Hail Mary's - Kate Howarth
Flying With Paper Wings - Sandy Jeffs
Listening to Country - Ros Moriarty
The Lost Mother - Anne Summers
Otherland - Maria Tumarkin

Poetry

A Whistled Bit of Bop - Ken Bolton
Authentic Local - Pam Brown
Pirate Rain - Jennifer Maiden
Taller When Prone - Les Murray
Wimmera - Homer Reith

Victorian Premiers Literary Awards 2010

Prize for Fiction

Parrot and Olivier - Peter Carey
The Bath Fugues - Brian Castro
Summertime - J.M Coetzee
Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
Truth - Peter Temple

Prize for Non-Fiction

Popeye Never Told you: childhood memories of the War - Rodney Hall
A Swindler's Progress: nobles and convicts in the age of liberty - Kirsten McKenzie
Captain Cook Was Here - Maria Nugent
Otherland: A journey with my daughter - Reading By Moonlight: how books saved a life - Brenda Walker

Prize for Young Adult Fiction

Raw Blue - Kirsty Eagar
Swerve - Phillip Gwynne
Beatle Meets Destiny - Gabrielle Williams

Prize for Poetry

Beneath our Armour - Peter Bakowski
Possession - Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
The Adoption Order - Ian McBryde