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The 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.

The Christina Stead Prize for fiction nominees are:

• Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, see my review
• Every Version of You by Grace Chan
• Women I Know by Katerina Gibson
• Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor, see my review
• Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston, see my review
• Grimmish by Michael Winkler

I haven’t  come across any of the nominees for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing:

• Blaze by Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero
• The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey
• We Come with This Place by Debra Dank
• Women I Know by Katerina Gibson
• The Rat-Catcher’s Apprentice by Maggie Jankuloska
• The Upwelling by Lystra Rose
• Hush by Ciella Williams
• At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao

The Douglas Stewart award for Non-fiction nominees are:

• We Come with This Place by Debra Dank
• Mothertongues by Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell, see my review
• How to End a Story, Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
• Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper, see my review
• Crimes Against Nature by Jeff Sparrow
• Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego

The Multicultural NSW Award nominees are:

• 11 Words for Love by Randa Abdel Fatta and Maxine Beneba Clarke
• The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey
• Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser, see my review
• The Whitewash by Siang Lu
• The Bonesetter’s Fee and Other Stories by Rashida Murphy
• When Granny came to Stay by Alice Pung and Sally Soweal Han

The Translation Prize nominees are:

• People from Bloomington by Budi Darma, translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao
• On the Line by Joseph Ponthus, translated from the French by Stephanie Smee
• Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Alison Croggon
• The Membranes by Chi-Ta Wei, translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich
• Deadly Quiet Cities, stories from Wuhan Ground Zero by Muron Zwecun, translated by Anonymous
• L’Assommoir by Emile Zola translated from the French by Brian Nelson, see my review

I haven’t come across most of the nominees for the Indigenous Writer’s Prize are:

• We Come with This Place by Debra Dank
• Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty
• Open Your Heart to Country by Jasmine Seymour
• The Dungirr Brothers and the Caring Song of the Whale by Aunty Shaa Smith, Neeyan Smith, Uncle Bud Marshall, With Yandarra including Sarah Wright, Lara Daley and Paul Hodge
• The First Scientists, Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia’s First Peoples by Correy Tuttand Blak Douglas
• Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego

To see the nominees for the other awards and the judges comments, please visit the #NSWPLA website

Congratulation to all the authors, editors, and publishers!

To see my reviews of some other very fine books published in 2022 which have not been nominated, click here.