Eventually we now have the winners for NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
The museum of modern love by Heather Rose
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Letter to Pessoa by Michelle Cahill
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Our man elsewhere: in search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Ghostspeaking by Peter Boyle
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature
One thousand hills by james Roy and Noel Zihabamwe
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
Iris and the tiger by Leanne Hall
Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
The Drover’s wife by Leah Purcell
Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
The code, series 2 episode 4 by Shelley Birse
Multicultural NSW Award
The hate race by Maxine beneba Clarke
NSW Premier’s Translation Prize
Royall Tyler
Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize
Jan Owen
Book of the Year Award
The Drover’s wife by Leah Purcell
People’s Choice Award
Vancouver #3 in the series Wisdom tree by Nick Earls