The winners of the the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Award were announced last night in Sydney.
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Tom Griffiths Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Kathryn Lomer Two Kinds of Silence
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
James Roy Town
Patricia Wrightson Prize
Li Cunxin & Anne Spudvilas (illus) The Peasant Prince
Community Relations Commission Award
Jacob G. Rosenberg Sunrise West
Gleebooks Prize
Kay Anderson Race and the Crisis of Humanism
UTS Award for New Writing
Rhyll McMaster Feather Man
Play Award
Debra Oswald Stories in the Dark
Script Writing Award
Anna Broinowski Forbidden Lie$
The NSW Premier's Literary Scholarship Prize
William Christie Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life
Book of the Year
Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog
A Special Award was also presented to Tom Keneally for lifetime achievement.
