Prime Ministers Literary Awards 2024 in Trove
This year’s round-up of Prime Minister Literary Award winners and shortlisted titles is fantastic testament to Australia’s outstanding literary work and culture.
Trove brings together library collections from across the country and is a wonderful way to search for the next book you want to read. Trove is also home to all published and self-published works that have been digitally deposited via National eDeposit (NED). You can view all these titles in the NED collection feature.
On Thursday 12 September, Creative Australia announced the recipients at the National Library of Australia. View all the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners and shortlistees in Trove and discover where you can read them.
Fiction
Winner
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Anam by André Dao
Shortlistees
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Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
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Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
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The Carnal Fugues by Catherine McNamara
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Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Children’s Literature
Winner
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Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country by Violet Wadrill and co-creators Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Briony Barr, Felicity Meakins, Gregory Crocetti
Shortlistees
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Etta and the Shadow Taboo by JM Field and Jeremy Worrall
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Ghost Book by Remy Lai
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Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky by Rebecca Lim
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Millie Mak the Maker by Alice Pung & Sher Rill Ng
Non-fiction
Winner
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Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel Browning
Shortlistees
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Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth
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Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
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A Kind of Confession by Alex Miller
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A Clear Flowing Yarra by Harry Saddler
Young adult literature
Winner
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We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
Shortlistees
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Grace Notes by Karen Comer
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We Didn’t Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough
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A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson
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Welcome to Sex by Yumi Stynes & Melissa Kang
Australian history
Winner
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Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country by Ryan Cropp
Shortlistees
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Bee Miles by Rose Ellis
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Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
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Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
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Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law by Alecia Simmonds
Poetry
Winner
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The Cyprian by Amy Crutchfield
Shortlistees
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In the Photograph by Luke Beesley
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She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Golden Bridge: New Poems by Jennifer Maiden
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The Drama Student by Autumn Royal