The 2012 Prime Minister's

Literary Awards shortlists:

SHORTLISTED entries for each category in the 2012
Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Fiction shortlist

All That I Am by Anna Funder

Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville

Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears

Autumn Laing by Alex Miller

Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital

Poetry shortlist

Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh

Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies

Armour by John Kinsella

Southern Barbarians by John Mateer

New and Selected Poems by Gig Ryan

Non-fiction shortlist

A Short History of Christianity by Geoffrey Blainey

Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles by A J Brown

When Horse Became Saw: A Family's Journey Through Autism by Anthony Macris

Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland

An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna

Prize for Australian History shortlist

1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce

The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage

Breaking the Sheep's Back by Charles Massy

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation by Russell McGregor

Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us by Renegade Films Australia Pty Ltd

Young adult fiction shortlist

A Straight Line to My Heart by Bill Condon

Being Here by Barry Jonsberg

Pan's Whisper by Sue Lawson

When We Were Two by Robert Newton

Alaska by Sue Saliba

Children's fiction shortlist

Evangeline, The Wish Keeper's Helper by Maggie Alderson

The Jewel Fish of Karnak by Graeme Base

Father's Day by Anne Brooksbank

Come Down, Cat! by Sonya Hartnett, illustrated by Lucia Masciullo

Goodnight, Mice! by Frances Watts, illustrated by Judy Watson