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The winners of the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced tonight.  I have highlighted them in bold.

The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

• A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville, see Jennifer’s review at Tasmanian Bibliophile at Large
• Murmurations by Carol LeFevre (short stories, find out more here) see Sue’s review at Whispering Gums.  I just finished reading this last night but have not yet written the review. See my review.
• Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne, see Brona’s review at This Reading Life a.k.a. Brona’s Books
• The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, see my review
• The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, see my review
• The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld, see Jennifer’s review at Tasmanian Bibliophile at Large

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing

• The Octopus and I by Erin Hortle see my review
• Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne see Brona’s review at This Reading Life a.k.a. Brona’s Books
• A Couple of Things Before the End by Sean O’Beirne
• Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson, on my TBR, see Jennifer’s review at Tasmanian Bibliophile at Large
• The Inland Sea by Madeline Watts

Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction

• Father of the Lost Boys by Yout Ajang Alaak, see my review
• In the Time of Manaroans by Miro Bilbrough
• Womerah Lane: Lives and Landscapes by Tom Carmant
• The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullaghar
• A Question of Colour: My Journey to Belonging by Pattie Lees and Adam C Lees, see my review
• The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin Brought Down Australia’s Censorship System by Patrick Mullins

Multicultural NSW Award

• After Australia by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Ed)
• The F Team by Rawah Arja
• Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore
• The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham,(abandoned)
• A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
• Throat by Ellen Van Neerven, see Brona’s review at This Reading Life a.k.a. Brona’s Books

NSW Premier’s Translation Prize

• Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho, translated by Meredith McKinney
• Imminence by Marianna Dimopoulos, translated by Alice Whitmore, see my review
• This Tilting World by Colette Fellous, translated by Sophie Rebecca Lewis
• Autumn Manuscripts by Tasos Leivaditis, translated by N N Trakakis
• Sergius Seeks Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated by Tiffany Tsao
• Russia Washed in Blood. A Novel in Fragments by Artyom Vesyoly, translated by Kevin Windle

Throat by Ellen van Neerven (@UQPbooks) won the 2021 Book of the Year, the Poetry Award and the Multicultural Award.  The 2021 Special Award was won by Melina Marchetta and the 2021 People’s Choice Award was won by Pip Williams for The Dictionary of Lost Words.

For prizes in other categories, visit the awards website.