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Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2015 longlists announced

Thursday, 6 August 2015   Books+Publishing
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The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced.

The biennial awards, previously known as the Tasmanian Literary Prizes, were rebranded in March. A new Young Writer’s Prize was also announced.

The longlisted titles in each category are:

Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any genre ($25,000)

  • The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer (Alison Alexander, A&U)
  • A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land (Simon Barnard, Text)
  • Infamy (Lenny Bartulin, A&U)
  • The Rise and Fall of Gunns Limited (Quentin Beresford, NewSouth)
  • The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (Nicholas Clements, UQP)
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage)
  • Into That Forest (Louis Nowra, A&U)
  • Forgotten War (Henry Reynolds, NewSouth)
  • A Bone of Fact (David Walsh, Picador)
  • To Name Those Lost (Rohan Wilson, A&U)

 

Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian writer ($5000)

  • Infamy (Lenny Bartulin, A&U)
  • Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World (James Boyce, Black Inc.)
  • Tempo (Sarah Day, Puncher & Wattman)
  • What Days Are For (Robert Dessaix, Vintage)
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan (Vintage)
  • Song for a Scarlet Runner (Julie Hunt, A&U)
  • A Short History of Richard Kline (Amanda Lohrey, Black Inc.)
  • A Bone of Fact (David Walsh, Picador)
  • To Name Those Lost (Rohan Wilson, A&U)
  • Mothers Grimm (Danielle Wood, A&U).

 

The shortlists will be announced at the opening of the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival on 11 September. The winners, as well as the awards for best unpublished manuscript and the recipient of the Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship, will be announced at an event on 2 December.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, James Boyce’s 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (Black Inc.) won the Tasmania Book Prize at the 2013 Tasmanian Literary Prizes, which were presented as part of the Ten Days on the Island festival.

For more information about the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes, visit the website here.

 

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