NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010
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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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