The winners of the 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Award winners were announced today and here they are!
Chris
tina Stead Prize for Fiction
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany (Picador) See my review and Carrie Tiffany at the Parkdale Library
People’s Choice Award
Animal People by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin) See my review and Meet an Aussie Author: Charlotte Wood
Special Award for Australian Fiction
David Ireland, see my review of The Glass Canoe
Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction
The Office: A Hardworking History by Gideon Haigh (Melbourne University Press)
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby-Eckermann (Magabala Books)
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature
A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty (Pan Macmillan)
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon by Aaron Blabey (Viking)
Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW Award
Don’t Go Back to Where You Came from: Why Multiculturalism Works, Tim Soutphommasane (New South Publishing)
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
The Last Thread, Michael Sala (Affirm Press) See a review at Liticism or at Whispering Gums.
NSW Premier’s Translation Prize
Peter Boyle
Congratulations to all the authors and publishers!
To check out the other very worthy titles which were shortlisted, click here.
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