The winners of the 2010 NSW Premier's Literary Awards have been announced.
The winners were:
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
J.M. Coetzee, Summertime Random House Australia (Knopf)
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Paul McGeough, Kill Khalid: Mossad's Failed Hit ... And the Rise of Hamas Allen & Unwin
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to 'm' John Leonard Press
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
Pamela Rushby, When the Hipchicks Went to War Hachette Australia
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature
Allan Baillie, Krakatoa Lighthouse Penguin Group (Australia)
Community Relations Commission Award
Abbas El-Zein, Leave to Remain: A Memoir University of Queensland Press
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing for Fiction
Andrew Croome, Document Z Allen & Unwin
Script Writing Award
Jane Campion, Bright Star Jan Chapman Films
Aviva Ziegler & Veronica Fury, Fairweather Man Fury Productions
Play Award
This category did not have a shortlist. This year a grant of $30,000 will be made
available to support professional development opportunities for new playwrights in New
South Wales in 2011.
NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship
Philip Mead, Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry Australian Scholarly Publishing
The People's Choice Award
Cate Kennedy, The World Beneath Scribe Publications
Book of the Year
Paul McGeough, Kill Khalid: Mossad's Failed Hit ... And the Rise of Hamas Allen & Unwin
Special Award
The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
You can read the full shortlists here.
