Last week Alexis Wright won the Stella prize for Tracker, her book about Indigenous leader Tracker Tilmouth. This week, she finds herself on the shortlist for the biography prize in the Australian Book Industry Awards where she will be up against last year's winner, Jimmy Barnes, shortlisted for Working Class Man, the sequel to the best-selling account of his early life.

Also returning to the shortlist is Jane Harper, whose crime sensation The Dry was named not only last year's best novel but also overall book of the year. She is listed for its sequel, Force of Nature.

Man Booker Prize winners Peter Carey and Richard Flanagan are both shortlisted in the literary fiction category for their recent novels, A Long Way Home and First Person respectively. Also in that category is Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna (The Choke) and debut authors Sarah Schmidt (See What I Have Done) and Mark Brandi (Wimmera). Last year's Booker winner, George Saunders, is on the list for the international book of the year for Lincoln in the Bardo.

The winner of the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein, is up for the non-fiction award for The Trauma Cleaner, as is Sarah Wilson for her memoir about anxiety, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful.