Short list for Fiction- Burning In Mireille Juchau
- El Dorado Dorothy Porter
- Jamaica: A novel Malcolm Knox
- Sorry Gail Jones
- The Complete Stories David Malouf
- The Widow and Her Hero Tom Keneally
- The Zookeeper’s War Steven Conte
Short list for Non-fiction
- A History of Queensland Raymond Evans
- Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time Clive James
- My Life as a Traitor Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman
- Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799 Philip Dwyer
- Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers Philip Jones
- Shakespeare’s Wife Germaine Greer
- Vietnam: The Australian War Paul Ham
The awards offer a tax free prize of $100,000 for both a fiction and non-fiction work judged to be of the highest literary merit in each category.
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