Nib Literary Award 2022 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has been announced.
The shortlisted titles are:
- Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium (Tim Bonyhady, Text)
- Signs and Wonders (Delia Falconer, Scribner)
- The Asparagus Wars (Carol Major, ES Press)
- Mafioso (Colin McLaren, Hachette)
- Mortals (Rachel E Menzies & Ross G Menzies, A&U)
- Here Goes Nothing (Steve Toltz, Hamish Hamilton).
Presented by Sydney’s Waverley Council, the award celebrates the ‘most compelling research-based Australian literature and is awarded to nominated published works of any genre that best fulfill the criteria of quality of research, readability and value to the community’.
Each shortlistee receives $1000 and goes into the running for the overall Nib award and the $2500 people’s choice prize. Of the six shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 18, only one is a work of fiction, Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz.
The shortlist was announced at the Bondi Pavilion on Tuesday, 27 September, at an event hosted by media personality Mikey Robins and featuring 2021 Nib People’s Choice Prize winner Tim Olsen. Luke Stegemann was the winner of the 2021 Nib Literary Award for his book Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory (NewSouth).
The winner of this year’s prize will be announced on 16 November. For more information, see the Waverley Council website.
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