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NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010

JA May 25

In case you missed it, here were the winners for the 2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.


Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
J.M. Coetzee, Summertime

Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Paul McGeough, Kill Khalid: Mossad’s failed hit … and the rise of Hamas

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to ‘m'

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature
Pamela Rushby, When the Hipchicks Went to War

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
Allan Baillie, Krakatoa Lighthouse

Script Writing Award
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Aviva Ziegler, Fairweather Man

Play Award
This category did not have a shortlist. A grant of $30,000 is being made available to support professional development opportunities for new playwrights in NSW in 2011.

NSW Premier’s Prize for Literary Scholarship
Philip Mead, Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry

Community Relations Commission Award
Abbas El-Zein, Leave to Remain: A Memoir

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing for Fiction
Andrew Croome, Document Z

The People’s Choice Award
Cate Kennedy, The World Beneath

Book of the Year ($10,000)
Paul McGeough, Kill Khalid: Mossad’s failed hit … and the rise of Hamas

Special Award
The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature


 

 

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