Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Full list of winners from the 2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: Presentation last night at the NSW Art Gallery.

see full article SMH---

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/herald-writer-wins-top-prize-for-hamas-book-20100517-v9h0.html

Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($40,000)

J.M. Coetzee, Summertime.

Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction ($40,000)
Paul McGeough, Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit and the rise of Hamas.

Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry ($30,000)
Jordie Albiston, The Sonnet According to "M".

Ethel Turner Prize for young people's literature ($30,000)
Pamela Rushby, When the Hipchicks Went to War.

Patricia Wrightson Prize for children's literature ($30,000)
Allan Baillie, Krakatoa Lighthouse.

Script Writing Award ($60,000)
Jane Champion, Bright Star (script writing for television, radio and film).
Aviva Ziegler, Fairweather Man (script writing for television documentary).

Play Award ($30,000)
No shortlist - grant donated to professional development opportunities for new playwrights in NSW.

NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship ($30,000)
Professor Philip Mead, Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry.

Community Relations Commission Award ($20,000)
Abbas El-Zein, Leave to Remain: A Memoir.

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing for fiction ($5000)
Andrew Croome, Document Z.

The People's Choice Award
Cate Kennedy, The World Beneath.

This book is in our library

Book of the Year ($10,000)
Paul McGeough, Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit and the rise of Hamas.

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