Showing posts with label NSW Premiers' Literary Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NSW Premiers' Literary Awards. Show all posts

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.