The winners of the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Sydney last night.
The winners were:
The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Joan London - The Good Parents
The Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction
Chloe Hooper - The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
LK Holt - Man Wolf Man
The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
Michelle Cooper - A Brief History of Montmaray
The Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature
Urusla Dubosarsky & Tohby Riddle (Illustrator) - The Word Spy
The Community Relations Commission Award
Eric Richards - Destination Australia: Migration to Australia Since 1901
The Gleebooks Prize
David Love - Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution J
The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Nam Le - The Boat
The Play Award
Daniel Keene - "The Serpent's Teeth"
The Script Writing Award
Louis Nowra and Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole - "First Australians"
NSW Premier's Translation Prize and PEN Medallion
David Colmer
The full shortlists for each award are available here.
In addition, The Boat by Nam Le was named Book of the Year, and the People's Choice Award for Fiction went to A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz.
This is a great outcome! Especially for the Fiction and Non-Fiction prizes. Thoroughly deserved.