The longlist has been unveiled for the A$5,000 (about US$3,255) Voss Literary Prize, which is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, Books+Publishing reported. Established in 2014, the prize is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux Voss and managed by the Australian University Heads of English. This year's longlisted titles are:
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
Compassion by Julie Janson
The Degenerates by Raeden Richardson
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane
A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
One Another by Gail Jones
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
Translations by Jumaana Abdu
Vortex by Rodney Hall