The winners of the 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night. The winners were:
Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($20,000)
Kate Grenville, The Secret River (Text Publishing)
Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction ($20,000)
Jacob G. Rosenberg, East of Time (Brandl & Schlesinger)
Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry ($15,000)
Jaya Savige, Latecomers (Uni Qld Press)
NSW Premier's Prize for literary scholarship ($15,000)
Terry Collits, Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire (Routledge)
Ethel Turner Prize for young people's literature ($15,000)
Ursula Dubosarsky, Theodora's Gift (Penguin)
Patricia Wrightson Prize ($15,000)
Kierin Meehan, In the Monkey Forest (Penguin)
Community Relations Commission Award ($15,000)
Kate Grenville, The Secret River (Text Publishing)
Gleebooks Prize ($10,000) & Book of the Year ($2,000)
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers: the History and Future Impact of Climate Change (Text Publishing)
UTS Award for New Writing ($5,000)
Steven Lang, An Accidental Terrorist (Uni Qld Press)
Play Award ($15,000)
Thomas Murphy, Strangers in Between (Griffin Theatre Co)
Script Writing Award ($15,000)
Chris Lilley, We Can Be Heroes (Princess Pictures)
Special Award ($5,000)
Rosemary Dobson AO
