Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Margaret & Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024 Long and Short Lists
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2024 Long List
Fourteen books, including fiction, poetry and non-fiction, have been longlisted for the $50,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award in 2024.
Released on the 9th July 2024, together, these fourteen books showcase the very best of current Australian writing and publishing from a field of over 230 entries.
A coming-of-age story for young adults, this book focuses on Matthew, his parents, his friends and his search for meaning. When he and his mother move to a small fishing town, he discovers a whole new life that his father’s return makes even more complicated. Moving and heartfelt.
A story of homelessness, violence and dysfunction seen through the eyes of a 17-year-old girl who has never lived any other way, although she firmly believes she will be a world-famous artist one day. Yes, it’s violent, it’s sentimental, and wallows in it – but go with the flow, you won’t regret it.
Why would anyone want to revisit the beginnings of the pandemic? Because this gripping, detailed, thoroughly-researched book illuminates the events, the decisions and the emotions of those days in Australia.
It’s hard to believe that in just two generations so much could have changed for Australian women but Grenville, in this fictionalised version of her grandmother’s life, makes it very clear. She transforms history into a gripping and emotional journey.
A rollercoaster ride of twists, turns and horrific surprises in this thriller. It’s the story of three foster children, that unravels their experiences as children and then as adults. It’s not for the faint-hearted, and nobody will expect the ending.
This delicately written and compelling young adult story traces the suffering of a village family during China’s Great Leap Forward. As they struggle to survive, their father attempts to make a place for them as immigrants during the time of the White Australia policy.
The title of this sparely-written, elegant novel ostensibly refers to trying to convert a church into a home after tragedy, but the story is as much about spiritual and life conversions as it is about a building. The novel follows the progress of Zoe’s life toward some sort of rebuilding after the betrayal and death of her husband.
The title is an early colonial name for Brisbane. There are two storylines: of Mulanyin and Nita, who watch as their lands are filled by white people, and Winona and Johnny, as they try to wrangle the feisty Mrs Eddie Blanket. In characteristically vivid prose, Lucashenko shows the ways that intimate relationships were, and continue to be, shaped by the violence of colonisation.
A strong collection with a wide variety of styles and concerns, with a consistent focus on social issues. If you want to sample the best of current Australian poetry, this book is for you.
This novel for younger readers explores the idea that we understand our lives in part by using stories from books, particularly in times of crisis and change. It shows that social convention can be not just constraining but fatal, even for adults.
This is a beautifully written contemplation: memoir, history, and analysis of the country’s relation to sport, including Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings of competition, play and belonging in life. Wide-ranging but always with controlled purpose, the book holds readers through a sometimes excruciating journey of shyness, experiences of racism and homophobia, committed othering, and losing and finding place.
In these difficult days with anti-Semitism sweeping the Western world, this tale of survival of the Nazi Holocaust is timely. But it’s a story not just survival, but of retaining humanity, optimism and love in the face of the most inhumane and vicious acts.
An ebullient writing style hurtles the reader across more than 800 pages. Ostensibly an epic story of the eponymous town, Praiseworthy tackles climate change and the Northern Territory intervention in prose that is rambunctious, erudite, and simmering with rage.
Sally Young’s stunning research and lively story-telling reveal intriguing details of the workings and influence of the print media. Essential reading for anyone interested in politics and history.