#NSW Premier’s Award 2019 shortlist – read-a-thon!

• My next shortlist: NSW Premier’s Award 2019
  
• I won’t have much time to read them all because
• the prize will be announced on 29 April 2019.
• How many can I read before the deadline?
• Today starts my  NSW Premier’s  Award  read-a-thon!
• @NSW_PLA
• #NSWPLA

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

4/6
Man Out of Time  –  Stephanie Bishop
Boy Swallows Universe  –  Trent Dalton – READ  (Stunning!)
The Life to Come  –  Michelle de Kretser  – WINNER
The Everlasting Sunday  –  Robert Lukins – READ
Border Districts  –  Gerald Murnane – READ 
The Shepherd’s Hut  –  Tim Winton – READ  (Bah!)

Douglas Stewart prize for Non-Fiction

5/6 
Saga Land  –  Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason –  READ
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia   B. Griffiths – READ – WINNER
The Trauma Cleaner  –  Sarah Krasnostein – READ – WINNER
The Erratics  –  Vicki Laveau-Harvie 
Axiomatic  – Maria Tumarkin – READ
Tracker  –  Alexis Wright – READ

BOOK OF THE YEAR:

Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia   B. Griffiths – READ  – WINNER

SPECIAL AWARD

1. No Friend But the Mountains:
2. The True Story of an Illegaaly Imprisoned Refugee  – B. Boochani

UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing

4/6
Flames  –  Robbie Arnott  – READ
Boy Swallows Universe  –  Trent Dalton – READ  – WINNER + People’s Choice Award
Scrublands  –  Chris Hammer – READ 
The Everlasting Sunday  –  Robert Lukins – READ 
Pink Mountain on Locust Island  –  Jamie Marina Lau –  READ
The Lucky Galah  –  Tracy Sorensen

Multicultural NSW Award

1/6
The Lebs  –  Michael Mohammed Ahmad – WINNER  – READ
Rainforest  –  Eileen Chong – NOT reading yet ….no e-book
Home is Nearby  –  Magdalena McGuire  – NOT reading yet …no e-book 
Always Another Country: A Memoir-   S. Msimang  NOT reading yet …no e-book 
Too Much Lip  –  Melissa Lucashenko  – READ
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia  –  Sofija Stefanovic NOT reading yet …no e-book 

Taboo  –  Kim Scott – Winner 2018
The Drover’s Wife  –  Leah Purcell – READ (review) – Winner 2017