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May 24, 2006

2006 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Winners Announced

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

Posted by larrikin at May 24, 2006 09:38 AM

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