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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer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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