RICHEST INDIVIDUAL LITERARY PRIZE IN AUSTRALASIA ANNOUNCES LONGLIST
The richest individual literary prize in Australasia, the ARA Historical Novel Prize, has announced its longlist. Open to novels where the majority of the narrative takes place at least 50 years ago, the Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), with the generous patronage of the ARA Group, has been running the prize since 2020 which includes both Adult and Children and Young Adult (CYA) categories. Previous Adult category winners include Melissa Lucashenko (2024) Gail Jones (2023), Tom Keneally (2022), with CYA winners Amelia Mellor (2023) and Beverley McWilliams (2024).
The shortlists will be announced on 24 September and the winners on 16 October 2025, with a celebratory event in Sydney.
ADULT LONGLIST
- Dusk by Robbie Arnott (Picador Australia, an imprint of Pan Macmillan) *
- Everything Lost, Everything Found by Matthew Hooton (HarperCollins Publishers)
- All the Bees in the Hollows by Lauren Keegan (Affirm Press)
- The First Friend by Malcolm Knox (Allen & Unwin)
- Rapture by Emily Maguire (Allen & Unwin) *
- One Hundred Years of Betty by Debra Oswald (Allen & Unwin)
- When Sleeping Women Wake by Emma Pei Yin (Hachette Australia)
- I am Nannertgarrook by Tasma Walton (Bundyi)
- The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang (Hachette Australia)
For further information: https://hnsa.org.au/ara-historical-novel-prize/
Dusk and Rapture have been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our review.