2011 Western Australia Premier's Book Award Winners

The winners of the 2011 Western Australia Premier's Book Awards have been announced.  The winners were:

Digital Narrative Encouragement Award   
The Garden, Robin Craig Clark (Peliguin Publications)

Non-Fiction    
A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W. K. Hancock, Jim Davidson (UNSW Press)

Fiction
That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott (Picador Australia)

Scripts
Gwen in Purgatory, Tommy Murphy (Currency Press)

Children's Books
Toppling, Sally Murphy (author) and Rhian Nest James (illustrator), (Walker Books Australia)

Poetry
Fire Diary, Mark Tredinnick (Puncher & Wattmann)

Young Adults (Joint Winners)
Anonymity Jones, James Roy (Random House Australia)
and
Happy as Larry, Scot Gardner, (Allen & Unwin)

State Library of Western  Australia WA History
Vite Italiane: Italian Lives in Western Australia, Dr Susanna Iuliano (UWA Publishing)

People's Choice Award    
Utopian Man, Lisa Land (Allen &  Unwin)

Premier's Prize
That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott (Picador Australia)