Longlist, finalists & winners

Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
Clever Men (Martin Thomas, Allen & Unwin)

Nib People’s Choice Prize
Mean Streak(Rick Morton, 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
Max Dupain (Helen Ennis, 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Black Witness (Amy McQuire, University of Queensland Press)
Mean Streak (Rick Morton, 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Cactus Pear for My Beloved (Samah Sabawi, Penguin)
Clever Men (Martin Thomas, Allen & Unwin)
I Am Nannertgarrook (Tasma Walton, Bundyi, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Australia)

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Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)

Nib People’s Choice Prize
Book of Life (Deborah Conway, Allen & Unwin)

Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
Reaching Through Time (Shauna Bostock, Allen & Unwin)
Book of Life (Deborah Conway, Allen & Unwin)
Donald Horne (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe University Press)
Wifedom (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
What the Trees See (Dave Witty, Monash University Publishing)

Read more about the 2024 Prize winners.

View the 2024 longlist here.

Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
An Intimate History of Evolution (Alison Bashford, Allen Lane)

Nib People’s Choice Prize
The Age of Seeds (Fiona McMillan-Webster, Thames & Hudson Australia)

Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton)
Emperors in Lilliput (Jim Davidson, The Miegunyah Press)
Life So Full of Promise (Ross McMullin, Scribe Publications)
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by (Brigitta Oluba, Virago)