PM's Literary Awards Short List

Arts Minister Peter Garrett has announced the 14 Australian books short–listed for the inaugural 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Ninety-one fiction and 103 non-fiction entries were entered into the inaugural awards. Short list for Fiction is Burning In by Mireille Juchau, El Dorado by Dorothy Porter, Jamaica: A novel by Malcolm Knox, Sorry by Gail Jones, The Complete Stories by David Malouf, The Widow and Her Hero by Tom Keneally and The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte. Short list for Non-fiction is A History of Queensland by Raymond Evans, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James, My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman, Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799 Philip Dwyer Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones, Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer and Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham. Visit www.arts.gov.au/pmliteraryawards for more details. The Australian Government has introduced the Prime Minister's Literary Awards to recognise the major contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.