The shortlisted works are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction $30,000
- Parrot and Olivier in America (Peter Carey, Penguin)
- The Bath Fugues (Brian Castro, Giramondo)
- Summertime (J M. Coetzee, Random House)
- Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U)
- Truth (Peter Temple, Text)
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction $30,000
- Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War (Rodney Hall, Murdoch Books)
- A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (Kirsten McKenzie, UNSW Press)
- Captain Cook Was Here (Maria Nugent, Cambridge University Press)
- Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter (Maria Tumarkin, Random House)
- Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life (Brenda Walker, Hamish Hamilton)
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry $15,000
- Beneath Our Armour (Peter Bakowski, Hunter Publishers)
- Possession (Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Five Islands Press)
- The Adoption Order (Ian McBryde, Five Islands Press)
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama $15,000
- Moth (Declan Greene, Arena Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre)
- And No More Shall We Part (Tom Holloway, A Bit Of Argy Bargy)
- Furious Mattress (Melissa Reeves, Malthouse Theatre)
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction $15,000
- Raw Blue (Kirsty Eagar, Penguin)
- Swerve (Phillip Gwynne, Penguin)
- Beatle Meets Destiny (Gabrielle Williams, Penguin)
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate $15,000
- Patriot Acts (Waleed Aly, The Monthly)
- Stupid Money (Gideon Haigh, Griffith Review)
- Seeing Truganini (David Hansen, Australian Book Review)
The Prize for a First Book of History $15,000
- From Superwoman to Domestic Goddesses: the Rise and Fall of Feminism (Natasha Campo, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)
- Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Clare Corbould, Harvard University Press)
- Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France (Julie Kalman, Cambridge University Press)
The Prize for Indigenous Writing $15,000
- Legacy (Larissa Behrendt, UQP)
- Ten Hail Marys (Kate Howarth, UQP)
- Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? (Lorraine McGee-Sippel, Magabala Books)
The John Curtain Prize for Journalism $15,000
- Shutting Down Sharleen (Eurydice Aroney & Tom Morton, Hindsight, ABC Radio National)
- Who Killed Mr Ward? (Janine Cohen and Liz Jackson, Four Corners, ABC Television)
- Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull (Annabel Crabb, Quarterly Essay)
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer $15,000
- Winsome of Rangoon (Michelle Aung Thin)
- House of Sticks (Peggy Frew)
- Cambodia Darkness and Light (Andrew Nette).
The Prize for Best Musical Theatre ($15,000) and the Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia ($15,000) will not be awarded this year due to insufficient entries.
The winners will be announced on Tuesday 28 September.
