The winners of the 2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced on Monday and are:
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ~ Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and Book of the Year ~ Kill Khalid: Mossad’s failed hit … and the rise of Hamas by Paul McGeough
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ~ the sonnet according to ‘m’ by Jordie Albiston
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ~ When the Hipchicks Went to War by Pamela Rushby
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ~ Krakatoa Lighthouse by Allan Baillie
Script Writing Award ~ Bright Star by Jane Campion and Fairweather Man
by Aviva Ziegler
NSW Premier’s Prize for Literary Scholarship ~ Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry by Philip Mead
Community Relations Commission Award ~ Leave to Remain: A Memoir by Abbas El-Zein
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing for Fiction ~ Document Z by Andrew Croome
The People’s Choice Award ~ The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
Special Award ~ The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature
You can read the judges’ comments on each title by clicking here.
