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Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist 2004

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

Elizabeth Costello
by JM Coetzee
Knopf/Random House

Slow Water
by Annamarie Jagose
Vintage/Random House

A Private Man
by Malcolm Knox
Vintage/Random House

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction

Dancing with Strangers
by Inga Clendinnen
Text Publishing

Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities
by Graeme Davison
Allen & Unwin

The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty
by Mark Peel
Cambridge University Press

The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry

Wolf Notes
by Judith Beveridge
Giramondo

The Imageless World
by Michael Brennan
Salt Publishing

The Sleep of a Learning Man
by Anthony Lawrence
Giramondo

The Louis Esson Prize for Drama

Falling Petals
by Ben Ellis
Playbox/Currency

Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: A Drama in 30 Scenes
by Stephen Sewell
Playbox/Currency

Wonderlands
by Katherine Thomson
Currency

The Prize for Young Adult Fiction

Nights in the Sun
by Colin Bowles
Penguin Books Australia

Black Juice
by Margo Lanagan
Allen & Unwin

Boys of Blood & Bone
by David Metzenthen
Penguin Books Australia

The Prize for Indigenous Writing

Home
by Larissa Behrendt
University of Queensland Press

Her Sister’s Eye
by Vivienne Cleven
University of Queensland Press

Dorothy’s Skin
by Dennis McDermott
Five Islands Press 

The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate

Fantasy Island
by James Boyce
from Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History
Black Inc

The Mood We Are In: Circa Australia Day 2004
by Barry Hill
Overland Magazine

Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance
by David Malouf
Black Inc

The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing

Tom White
by Daniel Keene
Rescued Films/Fandango Productions

Martha’s New Coat
by Elizabeth Mars
Newtown Films

Somersault
by Cate Shortland
Red Carpet Productions

The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer

You’ve Changed
by Shalini Akhil

Deadly Force
by Jarad W Henry

Thai Died
by Angela Savage 

The Prize for a First Book of History

Einstein’s Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics
by Robyn Arianrhod
University of Queensland Press

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image
by James Curran
Melbourne University Publishing

Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island
by Rebe Taylor
Wakefield Press

 
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