The Age Book of the Year awards 2023 shortlists

14 April 2023

The Age Book of the Year awards 2023 shortlists were announced this afternoon. The awards are split into two sections, one for fiction, and the other for non-fiction.

The shortlisted titles for the fiction award are:

Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
Every Version of You by Grace Chan
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
Funny Ethnics by Shirley Le
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
Faithless by Alice Nelson

The shortlisted titles for the non-fiction award are:

The All of It by Cadance Bell
Childhood by Shannon Burns
Suburban Noir by Peter Doyle
Raised by Wolves by Jess Ho
Wandering with Intent by Kim Mahood
Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters by Mandy Sayer

The winners of each category — who will be announced on Thursday 4 May 2023, at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival — will receive a prize of ten thousand dollars.