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Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance has been longlisted for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The book has already won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Best Novel and the Victorian Prize for Literature, the WA Premier's Book Award, the 2011 Miles Franklin Award, Braille Book of the Year as well as the Kate Challis Award. It was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award; the Book Industry Award For Best Novel; the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and the 2011 Indie Award. In May it won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book in South East Asia and the Pacific and was awarded the 2011 Gold Medal of the Australian Society of Literature.
Adrian Hyland's Gunshot Road has been shortlist for the Colin Roderick Award. The Colin Roderick Award is administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University and presented annually to ‘the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life’.
Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson and Graham White have won the NSW Premier's General History Prize 2011 for
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars,
(Harvard University Press, 2010).
Martin Thomas's The Many Worlds of RH Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award and the Queensland Premier's Award (History Book).
Tim Bonyhady's Good Living Street: A Portrait of My Viennese Family was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award (History Book).
Emma Christopher's A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Australia has jointly won the 2011 Ernest Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award (History Book).
David Whish-Wilson's Line of Sight was shortlisted for the 2011 Ned Kelly Awards Best Crime Novel
Paul Collin's book, Judgment Day, was shortlisted for the 2011 Australian Christian Book of the Year.
Sheila Fitzpatrick's My Father’s Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood was shortlisted for the National Biography Award.
Jon Walker and Dan Hallett's Five Wounds: An Illustrated Novel was shortlisted for the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel.
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