New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards

The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction.^[1]

As of 2019^[update], the Awards are presented by the NSW Government and administered by the State Library of New South Wales in association with Create NSW, with support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Total prize money in 2019 was up to A$305,000, with eligibility limited to writers, translators and illustrators with Australian citizenship or permanent resident status.^[2]

History

The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat writers and artists with respect and understanding, the community will be more likely to do the same."^[3] They were the first set of premier's awards offered in Australia.^[1]

The awards were not presented in 1998 as the eligibility dates were amended.^[4]

Judging

The winners of most of the prizes and awards are decided by a judging panel, with no input from Create NSW (former Arts NSW) or the New South Wales Government. The names of each year's judges are not announced until the final winners are decided. The judging has been the subject of controversy in the past, when in 2010, the panel decided not to bestow the Play Award on any of the applicants.^[5]

In November 2011, the NSW Government announced a review of the Premier's Literary Awards for 2012. An independent panel, chaired by journalist Gerard Henderson, reviewed both the Literary and the Premier's History Awards, focussed on the governance, selection criteria and judging processes.^[6] Following the review, the Awards are managed by the State Library of NSW, in association with Create NSW.^[7]

Categories

The following prizes and awards are currently given in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

• Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
• Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
• Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
• Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature
• NSW Multicultural Award (formerly Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, Community Relations Commission Award)
• UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
• Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting (formerly the Play Award)
• Script Writing Award (formerly the separate Film, Television and Radio Writing Awards)
• NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship
• People's Choice Award
• Special Award
• NSW Premier's Translation Prize
• Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize
• Indigenous Writers Prize
• Gleebooks Prize (currently inactive)

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

Not to be confused with FAW Christina Stead Award.

The Christina Stead Prize is awarded for a work of fiction that may be either a novel or a collection of stories.^[8] The recipient receives a A$40,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] It is named in honour of Christina Stead, an Australian novelist and short-story writer.^[8] The first recipient was David Malouf, who was awarded the Prize for his novella An Imaginary Life in 1979. In 2019 Michelle de Kretser won with The Life to Come and equalled Peter Carey's record of three wins.^[10]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
1979	An Imaginary Life	David Malouf	Chatto and Windus, London	[11]
1980	War Crimes	Peter Carey	University of Queensland Press	[12]
1981	The Impersonators	Jessica Anderson	Macmillan	[13]
1982	Bliss	Peter Carey	University of Queensland Press	[14]
1983	The Cure	Peter Kocan	Angus & Robertson	[15]
1984	Milk	Beverley Farmer	McPhee Gribble	[16]
1985	Milk and Honey	Elizabeth Jolley	Fremantle Arts Centre Press	[17]
1986	Postcards from Surfers	Helen Garner	McPhee Gribble	[18]
1987	Dancing on Coral	Glenda Adams	Angus & Robertson	[19]
1988	Final Things	John Sligo	Penguin Books Australia	[20]
1989	Broken Words	Helen Hodgman	Penguin Books Australia	[21]
1990	Reaching Tin River	Thea Astley	William Heinemann Australia	[22]
1991	JF Was Here	Nigel Krauth	Allen & Unwin	[23]
1992	The Death of Napoleon	Simon Leys	Allen & Unwin	[24]
1993	Remembering Babylon	David Malouf	Random House Australia	[25]
1994	Seasonal Adjustments	Adib Khan	Allen & Unwin	[26]
1995	Just Like That	Lily Brett	Pan Macmillan	[27]
1996	Leaning Towards Infinity	Sue Woolfe	Random House Australia	[28]
1997	The Drowner	Robert Drewe	Pan Macmillan Australia	[29]
1998	No award			[4]
1999	Mr Darwin's Shooter	Roger McDonald	Random House Australia	[30]
2000	The Salt of Broken Tears	Michael Meehan	Vintage Books/Random House Australia	[31]
2001	Conditions of Faith	Alex Miller	Allen & Unwin	[32]
2002	Dirt Music	Tim Winton	Pan Macmillan Australia	[33]
2003	Moral Hazard	Kate Jennings	Picador
2004	Shanghai Dancing	Brian Castro	Giramondo Publishing
2005	The Turning	Tim Winton	Pan Macmillan Australia
2006	The Secret River	Kate Grenville	Text Publishing
2007	Theft: A Love Story	Peter Carey	Random House Australia
2008	The Lost Dog	Michelle de Kretser	Allen & Unwin	[34]
2009	The Good Parents	Joan London	Vintage Books
2010	Summertime	J. M. Coetzee	Harvill Secker
2011	Lovesong	Alex Miller	Allen & Unwin	[35]
2012	That Deadman Dance	Kim Scott	Pan Macmillan Australia	[36]
2013	Mateship with Birds	Carrie Tiffany	Pan Macmillan Australia	[37]
2014	Questions of Travel	Michelle de Kretser	Allen & Unwin	[38]
2015	The Snow Kimono	Mark Henshaw	Text Publishing	[39]
2016	Locust Girl: A Lovesong	Merlinda Bobis	Spinifex Press	[40]
2017	The Museum of Modern Love	Heather Rose	Allen & Unwin	[41]
2018	The Book of Dirt	Bram Presser	Text Publishing	[42]
2019	The Life to Come	Michelle de Kretser	Allen & Unwin	[43]
2020	The Yield	Tara June Winch	Penguin Random House	[44]
2021	A Room Made of Leaves	Kate Grenville	Text Publishing	[45][46]
2022	Dark as Last Night	Tony Birch	University of Queensland Press	[47][48]
2023	Women I Know	Katerina Gibson	Scribner	[49]
2024	The Sitter	Angela O'Keeffe	University of Queensland Press	[50]

Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction

The Douglas Stewart Prize is awarded for a prose work that is not fiction.^[51] The recipient receives a A$40,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] It is named in honour of Douglas Stewart, a noted Australian literary editor.^[51] The first recipient was Manning Clark, who was awarded the Prize for the fourth volume in his series A History of Australia in 1979. Drusilla Modjeska, with three wins, has won the Prize more than any other individual.^[10] In 2019 Billy Griffiths and Sarah Krasnostein were joint winners.^[43]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
1979	A History of Australia Volume IV	Manning Clark	Melbourne University Press	[11]
1980	Barwick	David Marr	Allen & Unwin	[12]
1981	A Fortunate Life	A. B. Facey	Fremantle Arts Centre Press	[13]
1982	Rebels and Precursors	Richard Haese	Allen Lane	[14]
1983	Robert J. Hawke	Blanche d'Alpuget	Schwartz Books	[15]
1984	The Archibald Paradox	Sylvia Lawson	Allen Lane	[16]
1985	The Moon Man	Elsie Webster	Melbourne University Press	[17]
1986	A Paper Prince	George Munster	Viking/Penguin Books Australia	[18]
	The Kurnai of Gippsland, Volume One	Phillip Pepper with Tess De Araugo	Hyland House Publishing	[18]
1987	The Irish In Australia	Patrick O'Farrell	University of New South Wales Press	[19]
1988	Louisa	Brian Matthews	McPhee Gribble	[20]
1989	His Mother's Country	Maslyn Williams	Melbourne University Press	[21]
1990	The Snowy	Siobhan McHugh	William Heinemann Australia
1991	Sitting In	Barry Hill	William Heinemann Australia
	Poppy	Drusilla Modjeska	McPhee Gribble
1992	Patrick White	David Marr	Random Century Australia
1993	Robert Menzies Forgotten People	Judith Brett	Pan Macmillan Australia
	Put Your Whole Self In	Meme McDonald	Penguin Books Australia
1994	Australia's Spies and Their Secrets	David McKnight	Allen & Unwin
	The Scandalous Penton	Patrick Buckridge	University of Queensland Press
1995	The Orchard	Drusilla Modjeska	Pan Macmillan Australia	[27]
1996	Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia	Tom Griffiths	Cambridge University Press	[28]
1997	The Europeans in Australia: A History, Volume One	Alan Atkinson	Oxford University Press
1999	H M Bark Endeavour	Ray Parkin	Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press
2000	Stravinsky's Lunch	Drusilla Modjeska	Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia
2001	Craft for a Dry Lake	Kim Mahood	Transworld/ Random House Australia
2002	The Poison Principle	Gail Bell	Pan Macmillan Australia
2003	Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place	Mark McKenna	University of New South Wales Press
2004	Dancing with Strangers	Inga Clendinnen	Text Publishing
2005	The Idea of Home: autobiographical essays	John Hughes	Giramondo Publishing
2006	East of Time	Jacob G. Rosenberg	Brandl & Schlesinger
2007	Things I Didn't Know: a Memoir	Robert Hughes	Random House Australia
2008	Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica	Tom Griffiths	University of New South Wales Press
2009	The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island	Chloe Hooper	Penguin Australia
2010	Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit ... and the rise of Hamas	Paul McGeough	Allen & Unwin
2011	Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs	Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons	Melbourne University Publishing
2012	An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark	Mark McKenna	Miegunyah, MUP	[52]
2013	The Office: A Hard Working History	Gideon Haigh	Miegunyah	[37]
2014	Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir	Kristina Olsson	University of Queensland Press	[38]
	Rendezvous with Destiny	Michael Fullilove	Penguin Group (Australia)	[38]
2015	The Bush	Don Watson	Penguin Books Australia	[39]
2016	Reckoning: A Memoir	Magda Szubanski	Text Publishing	[53]
2017	Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead	Thornton McCamish	Black Inc	[54]
2018	Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth	Paul Ham	William Heinemann Australia	[42]
2019	Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia (joint winner)	Billy Griffiths	Black Inc.	[43]
	The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (joint winner)	Sarah Krasnostein	Text Publishing	[43]
2020	Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon	Patrick Mullins	Scribe Publications	[44]
2021	The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire	Kate Fullagar	Yale University Press	[45][46]
2022	The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek	Kate Holden	Black Inc.	[47][55]
2023	We Come With This Place	Debra Dank	Echo Publishing	[49]
2024	Ghosts of the Orphanage	Christine Kenneally	Hachette Australia	[50]

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

Main article: Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

The Kenneth Slessor Prize is awarded for a book of poetry, whether collected poems or a single poem of some length, and was first awarded in 1980. The recipient receives a A$30,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] It is named in honour of Kenneth Slessor, a noted Australian poet and journalist.^[56] The first recipient was David Campbell, who won the Prize posthumously. In 2011, NSW poet Jennifer Maiden became the only individual to win the award three times.^[10]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
1980	The Man in the Honeysuckle	David Campbell	Angus & Robertson	[12]
1981	Astral Sea	Alan Gould	Angus & Robertson	[13]
1982	Kaddish and Other Poems	Fay Zwicky	University of Queensland Press	[14]
1983	Tide Country	Vivian Smith	Angus & Robertson	[15]
1984	The People's Otherworld : Poems	Les A. Murray	Angus & Robertson	[16]
1985	Your Shadow	Kevin Hart	Angus & Robertson	[17]
1986	Selected Poems 1963-83	Robert Gray	Angus & Robertson	[18]
1987	Blood and Bone	Philip Hodgins	Angus & Robertson	[19]
1988	The Domesticity of Giraffes	Judith Beveridge	Black Lightning Press	[20]
1989	Under Berlin	John Tranter	University of Queensland Press	[21]
1990	The Clean Dark	Robert Adamson	Paper Bark Press
1991	The Winter Baby	Jennifer Maiden	Collins Angus & Robertson
1992	Selected Poems	Elizabeth Riddell	Collins Angus & Robertson
1993	Translations from the Natural World	Les A. Murray	Isabella Press
1994	Ghosting William Buckley	Barry Hill	William Heinemann Australia
1995	Coming Home From the World	Peter Boyle	Five Islands Press	[27]
1996	Weeping for Lost Babylon	Eric Beach	HarperCollins Publishers	[28]
	Selected Poems	J. S. Harry	Penguin Books Australia
1997	The Viewfinder	Anthony Lawrence	University of Queensland Press
1999	Race Against Time	Lee Cataldi	Penguin Books Australia
2000	Mines	Jennifer Maiden	Paper Bark Press / Australian Humanities Research Foundation
2001	Africa	Ken Taylor	Five Islands Press
2002	The Lovemakers	Alan Wearne	Penguin Books Australia
2003	Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems	Jill Jones	Salt Publishing
2004	Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems	Pam Brown	Salt Publishing
2005	Smoke Encrypted Whispers	Samuel Wagan Watson	University of Queensland Press
2006	Latecomers	Jaya Savige	University of Queensland Press
2007	Urban Myths:210 Poems	John Tranter	University of Queensland Press
2008	Two Kinds of Silence	Kathryn Lomer	University of Queensland Press
2009	Man Wolf Man	L. K. Holt	John Leonard Press
2010	the sonnet according to ‘m’	Jordie Albiston	John Leonard Press
2011	Pirate Rain	Jennifer Maiden	Giramondo Publishing
2012	New and Selected Poems	Gig Ryan	Giramondo Publishing
2013	Ruby Moonlight	Ali Cobby Eckermann	Magabala Books	[37]
2014	Novelties	Fiona Hile	Hunter	[38]
2015	Earth Hour	David Malouf	University of Queensland Press	[57]
2016	brush	Joanne Burns	Giramondo Poets	[58]
2017	Ghostspeaking	Peter Boyle	Vagabond Press	[54]
2018	Argosy	Bella Li	Vagabond Press	[42]
2019	Interval	Judith Bishop	University of Queensland Press	[43]
2020	Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness	Peter Boyle	Vagabond Press	[44]
2021	Throat	Ellen van Neerven	University of Queensland Press	[45][46]
2022	accelerations & inertias	Dan Disney	Vagabond Press	[47][59]
2023	The Singer and Other Poems	Kim Cheng Boey	Cordite Books	[49]
2024	Riverbed Sky Songs	Tais Rose Wae	Vagabond Press	[50]

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature

The Ethel Turner Prize is awarded for work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry written for young people of secondary school level.^[60] The recipient receives a A$30,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] It is named in honour of Ethel Turner, author of the children's classic, Seven Little Australians.^[60]

The Children's Literature section of the Premier's Literary Awards began as a single award in 1979, but was redefined in 1999 to create the Patricia Wrightson Prize (for writing for a primary school audience) and the Ethel Turner Prize (for a secondary school audience). The Ethel Turner Award was also given to all previous winners in the Children's Literature section.^[61] The Prize was first won, jointly, by Patricia Wrightson and Jenny Wagner in 1979. Australian author Ursula Dubosarsky and writer Jaclyn Moriarty have each won the prize three times.^[10]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
1979	John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat	Jenny Wagner	Kestrel Books	[11]
	The Dark Bright Water	Patricia Wrightson (Special Children's book)	Atheneum Books, New York	[11]
1980	Mr Archimedes' Bath	Pamela Allen	William Collins	[12]
	Land of the Rainbow Snake	Catherine Berndt (Special Children's book)	William Collins	[12]
1981	When the Wind Changed	Ruth Park and Deborah Niland	William Collins	[13]
	Seventh Pebble	Eleanor Spence	Oxford University Press	[13]
1982	Whistle Up the Chimney	Nan Hunt and Craig Smith	William Collins	[14]
1983	Who Sank the Boat?	Pamela Allen	Nelson	[62]
	Five Times Dizzy	Nadia Wheatley (Special children's book)	Oxford University Press	[62]
1984	Possum Magic	Mem Fox and Julie Vivas	Omnibus Books	[16]
1985	The House That was Eureka	Nadia Wheatley	Viking/Kestrel	[17]
1986	The True Story of Spit MacPhee	James Aldridge	Viking/Penguin Books Australia	[18]
1987	A Rabbit Named Harris	Nan Hunt and Betina Ogden	William Collins	[19]
1988	Answers to Brut	Gillian Rubinstein	Omnibus Books	[20]
1989	You Take the High Road	Mary Pershall	Penguin Books Australia	[21]
1990	The Blue Chameleon	Katherine Scholes	Hill of Content Publishing
1991	Strange Objects	Gary Crew	William Heinemann Australia
1992	All in the Blue Unclouded Weather	Robin Klein	Penguin Books Australia
1993	Tjarany Roughtail	Gracie Greene, Lucille Gill and Joe Tramacchi	Magabala Books
1994	The White Guinea Pig	Ursula Dubosarsky	Penguin Books Australia
1995	Mr Enigmatic	Jenny Pausacker	Reed for Kids	[27]
1996	Johnny Hart's Heroes	David Metzenthen	Penguin Books Australia	[28]
1997	The Two Bullies	Junko Morimoto	Random House Australia
1998	No award
1999	The Divine Wind	Garry Disher	Hodder Headline Australia
2000	The Binna-Binna Man	Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor	Allen & Unwin
2001	Feeling Sorry for Celia	Jaclyn Moriarty	Pan Macmillan Australia
2002	Soldier Boy: The True Story of Jim Martin, the Youngest Anzac	Anthony Hill	Penguin Books Australia
2003	The Messenger	Markus Zusak	Pan Macmillan Australia
2004	Boys of Blood and Bone	David Metzenthen	Penguin Books Australia
2005	By the River	Steven Herrick	Allen & Unwin
2006	Theodora's Gift	Ursula Dubosarsky	Penguin Group Australia
2007	The Red Shoe	Ursula Dubosarsky	Allen & Unwin
2008	Town	James Roy	University of Queensland Press
2009	A Brief History of Montmaray	Michelle Cooper	Random House Australia
2010	When the Hipchicks Went to War	Pamela Rushby	Hachette Australia
2011	Graffiti Moon	Cath Crowley	Pan Macmillan Australia
2012	Only Ever Always	Penni Russon	Allen & Unwin
2013	A Corner of White	Jaclyn Moriarty	Pan Macmillan Australia	[37]
2014	Zac and Mia	AJ Betts	Text Press	[38]
2015	The Cracks in the Kingdom	Jaclyn Moriarty	Pan Macmillan Australia	[39]
2016	Laurinda	Alice Pung	Black Inc.	[63]
2017	One Thousand Hills	James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe	Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia	[54]
2018	The Ones That Disappeared	Zana Fraillon	Lothian	[42]
2019	Amelia Westlake	Erin Gough	Hardie Grant Egmont	[43]
2020	Lenny's Book of Everything	Karen Foxlee	Allen & Unwin	[44]
2021	The End of the World Is Bigger than Love	Davina Bell	Text Publishing	[45][46]
2022	The Gaps	Leanne Hall	Text Publishing	[47][64]
2023	The Upwelling	Lystra Rose	Hachette	[49]
2024	The Quiet and the Loud	Helena Fox	Pan Macmillan Australia	[50]

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature

The Patricia Wrightson Prize is awarded for work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry written for children up to secondary school level.^[65] The recipient receives a A$30,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9]

The Children's Literature section of the Premier's Literary Awards began as a single award in 1979, but was redefined in 1999 to create the Patricia Wrightson Prize (for writing for a primary school audience) and the Ethel Turner Prize (for a secondary school audience).^[61] The Patricia Wrightson Prize was created in honour of children's author Patricia Wrightson, who won the first Ethel Turner Prize in 1979.^[66] The first recipient was Odo Hirsch, for his debut children's book, Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman. The most recent recipient is Leanne Hall, author of Iris and the Tiger. Kierin Meehan is the only author who has won the Prize more than once.^[10]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
1999	Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman	Odo Hirsch	Allen & Unwin
2000	The Spangled Drongo	Steven Herrick	University of Queensland Press
2001	Fox	Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks (illus.)	Allen & Unwin
2002	The Red Tree	Shaun Tan	Lothian Books
2003	Where in the World	Simon French	Little Hare Books
2004	Night Singing	Kierin Meehan	Penguin Books Australia
2005	Farm Kid	Sherryl Clark	Penguin Books Australia
2006	In the Monkey Forest	Kierin Meehan	Penguin Books Australia
2007	Home	Narelle Oliver	Omnibus Books
2008	The Peasant Prince	Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas (illus.)	Penguin Books Australia
2009	The Word Spy	Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle	Penguin Books Australia
2010	Krakatoa Lighthouse	Allan Baillie	Penguin Books Australia
2011	My Australian Story: The Hunt for Ned Kelly	Sophie Masson	Scholastic Australia
2012	Crow Country	Kate Constable	Allen & Unwin
2013	The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon	Aaron Blabey	Penguin Books Australia	[37]
2014	The Girl Who Brought Mischief	Katrina Nannestad	HarperCollins Publishers	[38]
2015	Crossing	Catherine Norton	Omnibus/Scholastic Australia	[39]
	Figgy in the World	Tamsin Janu	Omnibus/Scholastic Australia	[39]
2016	Teacup	Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley	Scholastic Australia	[67]
2017	Iris and the Tiger	Leanne Hall	Text Publishing	[54]
2018	How to Bee	Bren MacDibble	Allen & Unwin	[42]
2019	Leave Taking	Lorraine Marwood	University of Queensland Press	[43]
	Dingo	Claire Saxby and Tannya Harricks	Walker Books	[43]
2020	Ella and the Ocean	Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley	Allen & Unwin	[44]
2021	The Grandest Bookshop in the World	Amelia Mellor	Affirm Press	[45][46]
2022	My Brother Ben	Peter Carnavas	University of Queensland Press	[47][68]
2023	The First Scientists	Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas	Hardie Grant	[49]
2024	Paradise Sands: A Story of Enchantment	Levi Pinfold	Walker Books	[50]

NSW Multicultural Award

This Award was first established in 1980, when it was known as the Ethnic Affairs Commission Award.^[69][70] Later known as the Community Relations Commission Award, and from 2012 referred to as the Community Relations Commission for Multicultural NSW Award, or from 2014 just Multicultural NSW Award, the prize money is worth $20,000 as of 2021^[update].^[9][71][72]

It is offered for: "a book of fiction or non-fiction, memoir or history; a play, musical drama or comedy, theatrical monologue or other theatrical performance; a book of collected poems or a single poem of substantial length published in book form; the screenplay of a feature or documentary film or episode of a television program...; or the script of a radio play or documentary which is deemed by the judges to have made a significant contribution to Australian literature, poetry, theatre, film, radio or television and which also considers any aspect of the Australian migration experience; and/or aspects of cultural diversity and multiculturalism in Australian society."^[73]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
1980	Australia through Italian Eyes	Stephanie Lindsay Thompson	Oxford University Press	[12]
1981	For the Patriarch	Angelo Loukakis	University of Queensland Press	[13]
1982	The Long Farewell	Don Charlwood	Allen Lane	[14]
1983	Faith of Our Fathers	Spiro Zavos	University of Queensland Press
1984	A Universe of Clowns	Serge Liberman	Phoenix Publications	[16]
1985	Oh Lucky Country	Rosa Cappiello	University of Queensland Press
1986	No Snow In December	Maria Lewitt	Heinemann Publishers
1987	Dreamtime Nightmares	Bill Rosser	Penguin Books Australia
1991	Jewels and Ashes	Arnold Zable	Scribe Publications
1992	Inside Outside	Andrew Riemer	HarperCollins Angus & Robertson
1993	The Crocodile Fury	Beth Yahp	HarperCollins Angus & Robertson
1994	Aphrodite and the Others	Gillian Bouras	McPhee Gribble
1995	The First Book of Samuel	Ursula Dubosarsky	Penguin Books Australia	[27]
1996	Caravanserai	Hanifa Deen	Allen & Unwin	[28]
1997	The Fiftieth Gate	Mark Raphael Baker	HarperCollins Australia
1999	Mortal Divide: the Autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou	George Alexander	Brandl & Schlesinger
2000	The Binna-Binna Man	Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor	Allen & Unwin
2001	Rabbit-Proof Fence	Christine Olsen	Jabal Films
2002	Visits Home: Migration Experiences between Italy and Australia	Loretta Baldassar	Melbourne University Press
2003	Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files	Mara Moustafine	Random House Australia
2004	Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society	Ghassan Hage	Pluto Press Australia
2005	A Certain Maritime Incident: the sinking of SIEV X	Tony Kevin	Scribe Publications
2006	The Secret River	Kate Grenville	Text Publishing
2007	The Arrival	Shaun Tan	Hachette Australia
2008	Sunrise West	Jacob G. Rosenberg	Brandl & Schlesinger
2009	Destination Australia: migration to Australia since 1901	Eric Richards	UNSW Press
2010	Leave to Remain: A Memoir	Abbas El-Zein	Penguin Books Australia
2011	The English Class	Ouyang Yu	Transit Lounge Publishing
2012	Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family	Tim Bonyhady	Allen & Unwin
2013	Don't Go Back to Where You Came From	Tim Soutphommasane	NewSouth	[37]
2014	Questions of Travel	Michelle de Kretser	Allen & Unwin	[74]
	The Secret River	Andrew Bovell	Currency Press	[74]
2015	Black and Proud: The story of an AFL photo	Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond	NewSouth	[75]
2016	Good Muslim Boy	Osamah Sami	Hardie Grant	[76]
2017	The Hate Race	Maxine Beneba Clarke	Hachette Australia	[77]
2018	The Permanent Resident	Roanna Gonsalves	UWA	[78]
2019	The Lebs	Michael Mohammed Ahmad	Hachette Australia	[71]
2020	The Pillars	Peter Polites	Hachette Australia	[44]
2021	Throat	Ellen van Neerven	University of Queensland Press	[45][46]
2022	Still Alive: Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System	Safdar Ahmed	Twelve Panels Press	[47][79]
2023	The Eulogy	Jackie Bailey	Hardie Grant	[80]
2024	Stay for Dinner	Sandhya Parappukkaran, illustrated by Michelle Pereira	Hardie Grant	[50]

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing

The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing (originally the UTS Award for New Writing) is given for a published book of fiction by an author who has not previously published a work of fiction that is book-length. It was established in 2005,^[81] and the winner receives a A$5,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] from the University of Technology, Sydney.^[81][82]

The award was renamed in 2008 to honour Glenda Adams, the Australian novelist and short story writer who died in 2007.^[83]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
2005	The Last Ride	Denise Young	HarperCollins Australia
2006	An Accidental Terrorist	Steven Lang	University of Queensland Press
2007	Swallow the Air	Tara June Winch	University of Queensland Press
2009	Feather Man	Rhyll McMaster	Brandl & Schlesinger
2009	The Boat	Nam Le	Penguin Books Australia
2010	Document Z	Andrew Croome	Allen & Unwin
2011	Traitor	Stephen Daisley	Text Publishing
2012	The Roving Party	Rohan Wilson	Allen & Unwin
2013	The Last Thread	Michael Sala	Affirm Press	[37]
2014	The Night Guest	Fiona McFarlane	Penguin Group (Australia)	[38]
2015	An Elegant Young Man	Luke Carman	Giramondo Publishing	[39]
2016	An Astronaut’s Life	Sonja Dechian	Text Publishing	[84]
2017	Letter to Pessoa	Michelle Cahill	Giramondo Publishing	[41]
2018	The Book of Dirt	Bram Presser	Text Publishing	[42]
2019	Boy Swallows Universe	Trent Dalton	HarperCollins	[43]
2020	Real Differences	S L Lim	Transit Lounge	[44]
2021	Cherry Beach	Laura McPhee-Browne	Text Publishing	[45][46]
2022	Hold Your Fire	Chloe WIlson	Scribner[47]	[85]
2023	We Come With This Place	Debra Dank	Echo Publishing	[49]
2024	Anam	André Dao	Penguin Random House	[50]

Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting

The Play Award, established in 1983, is given to a play or musical which has been produced in Australia. The winner is chosen based purely on the merit of the written text,^[86] and they receive a A$30,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] The award was first given to playwright Nicholas Enright and composer Terence Clarke for the musical Variations. Writers Daniel Keene and Stephen Sewell have each won the Award three times.^[10]

In 2010, the judges decided not to shortlist any plays for the Award, instead bestowing a $30,000 grant for new playwrights. Their decision was widely criticised by many of Australia's most experienced playwrights.^[87] Gil Appleton, head of the judging panel, called for all future judges to see a performance of the play rather than judging the work on the script alone.^[5]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref
1983	Variations	Nicholas Enright and Terence Clarke	[88]
1984	Down an Alley Filled with Cats	Warwick Moss	[16]
1985	The Blind Giant is Dancing	Stephen Sewell	[17]
1986	Away	Michael Gow	[18]
1987	Blood Relations	David Malouf	[19]
1988	The Rivers of China	Alma De Groen	[20]
1989	Hate	Stephen Sewell	[21]
1991	Hotel Sorrento	Hannie Rayson
1992	Cosi	Louis Nowra
1993	Dead Heart	Nicholas Parsons
1994	Sex Diary of an Infidel	Michael Gurr
1995	Sweet Phoebe	Michael Gow	[27]
	Falling From Grace	Hannie Rayson	[27]
1996	The Shoe-Horn Sonata	John Misto	[28]
1997	Jerusalem	Michael Gurr
1999	Box the Pony	Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell
2000	Scissors, Paper, Rock	Daniel Keene
2001	Milo's Wake	Margery Forde and Michael Forde
2002	Miss Tanaka	John Romeril
2003	Half & Half	Daniel Keene
2004	Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America	Stephen Sewell
2005	Harbour	Katherine Thomson
2006	Strangers in Between	Tommy Murphy
2007	Holding the Man	Tommy Murphy, adapted from the book by Timothy Conigrave
2008	Stories in the Dark	Debra Oswald
2009	The Serpent's Teeth	Daniel Keene
2011	Do Not Go Gentle	Patricia Cornelius
2012	Porn, Cake	Vanessa Bates
2012	The Gift	Joanna Murray-Smith
2013	The Damned	Reg Cribb	[37]
2014	Muff	Van Badham	[38]
2015	Black Diggers	Tom Wright	[89]
2016	The Bleeding Tree	Angus Cerini	[90]
2017	The Drover's Wife	Leah Purcell	[54]
2018	Black is the New White	Nakkiah Lui	[42]
2019	The Almighty Sometimes	Kendall Feaver	[43]
2020	Counting and Cracking	S. Shakthidharan	[44]
2021	Milk	Dylan Van Den Berg	[45][46]
2022	Orange Thrower	Kristy Marillier	[47][91]
2023	Whitefella Yella Tree	Dylan Van Den Berg	[49]
2024	Sex Magick	Nicholas Brown	[50]

Betty Roland Prize for Script Writing

In 1984, the Film Writing Award and the Television Writing Award were established, followed by the Radio Writing Award in 1988. In 1990, these three awards were amalgamated into the Script Writing Award. It is given for the script of a film, radio program or television program, which may be fiction or a documentary. The winner is chosen based purely on the merit of the written text,^[92] and they receive a A$30,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] The award was first given jointly to the film scripts for Sweetie and An Angel at My Table. Directors Jane Campion and Rolf de Heer have each won the Award twice.^[10]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref
1984	Careful, He Might Hear You (Film Writing Award)	Michael Jenkins	[16]
	Scales of Justice (Television Writing Award)	Robert Caswell	[16]
1985	My First Wife (Film Writing Award)	Bob Ellis and Paul Cox
	The Cowra Breakout (Television Writing Award)	Margaret Kelly, Chris Noonan, Phillip Noyce and Russell Braddon
1986	Bliss (Film Writing Award)	Peter Carey and Ray Lawrence
1987	Malcolm (Film Writing Award)	David Parker
	Two Friends (Television Writing Award)	Helen Garner
1988	High Tide (Film Writing Award)	Laura Jones
	Australia-Japan: A Love Story (Radio Writing Award)	Keith Gallasch and Virginia Baxter
	Olive (Television Writing Award)	Anthony Wheeler
1989	The Story of Anger Lee Bredenza (Radio Writing Award)	Alana Valentine	[21]
	The True Believers (Television Writing Award)	Bob Ellis and Stephen Ramsay	[21]
1990	Sweetie	Jane Campion and Gerard Lee
	An Angel at My Table	Laura Jones
1992	Dingo	Marc Rosenberg
1993	Strictly Ballroom	Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
1994	Bad Boy Bubby	Rolf de Heer
1995	"Playing the Ego Card", Frontline	Jane Kennedy, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch	[27]
1996	Blue Murder	Ian David	[28]
1997	Mabo: Life of an Island Man	Trevor Graham
1999	Dance Me to My Song	Heather Rose, Frederick Stahl and Rolf de Heer
2000	Looking for Alibrandi	Melina Marchetta
2001	Rabbit-Proof Fence	Christine Olsen
2002	My Mother India	Safina Uberoi
2003	Till Human Voices Wake Us	Michael Petroni
2004	Marking Time	John Doyle
2005	The Art of War	Betty Churcher
2006	We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year	Chris Lilley
2007	The Home Song Stories	Tony Ayres
2008	Forbidden Lie$	Anna Broinowski
2009	First Australians	Louis Nowra, Rachel Perkins & Beck Cole
2010	Bright Star	Jane Campion
	Fairweather Man	Aviva Ziegler
2011	Offspring	Debra Oswald
2012	Rake (Episode 1): R v Murray	Peter Duncan
2013	Dead Europe	Louise Fox	[37]
2014	Devil's Dust (two-part series)	Kris Mrksa	[38]
2015	The Babadook	Jennifer Kent	[93]
2016	Deadline Gallipoli, Episode 4: 'The Letter'	Cate Shortland	[94]
2017	The Code, Series 2 Episode 4	Shelley Birse (joint winner)	[54]
	Down Under	Abe Forsythe (joint winner)	[54]
2018	Deep Water: The Real Story	Amanda Blue and Jacob Hickey (joint winners)	[42]
	Top of the Lake: China Girl, "Birthday" Series 2 Episode 4	Jane Campion and Gerard Lee (joint winners)	[42]
2019	Jirga	Benjamin Gilmour	[43]
2020	Missing	Kylie Boltin (joint winner)	[44]
	The Cry, Episode 2	Jacquelin Perske (joint winner)	[44]
2021	Freeman	Laurence Billiet	[45][46]
2022	NITRAM	Shaun Grant	[47][95]
2023	Blaze	Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero	[80]
2024	Safe Home, Episode 1	Anna Barnes	[50]

NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship

Awarded biennially, the Prize for Literary Scholarship was made to a book, CD-ROM or DVD which presents an original perspective on one or more published works. The winner received a A$30,000 prize. It was discontinued and has not been awarded since 2010.^[10][96]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author
2004	Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession	Barry Hill
2006	Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire	Terry Collits
2008	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a Literary Life	William Christie
2010	Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry	Philip Mead

People's Choice Award

This award was established in 2009 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the awards.^[97] The Award is based on votes by New South Wales residents from the works shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for fiction. The award was first won by Steve Toltz for his novel, A Fraction of the Whole.^[98]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref
2009	A Fraction of the Whole	Steve Toltz
2010	The World Beneath	Cate Kennedy
2011	Lovesong	Alex Miller
2012	Five Bells	Gail Jones
2013	Animal People	Charlotte Wood	[37]
2014	The Railwayman's Wife	Ashley Hay	[38]
2015	Only the Animals (joint winner)	Ceridwen Dovey	[99]
	The Golden Age (joint winner)	Joan London	[99]
2016	The Life of Houses	Lisa Gorton	[100]
2017	Vancouver #3 in the series Wisdom Tree	Nick Earls	[41]
2018	The Book of Dirt	Bram Presser	[42]
2019	Boy Swallows Universe	Trent Dalton	[101]
2020	The Yield	Tara June Winch	[44]
2021	The Dictionary of Lost Words	Pip Williams	[45][46]
2022	The Shut Ins	Katherine Brabon	[47][102]
2023	Every Version of You	Grace Chan	[80]
2024	The God of No Good	Sita Walker	[50]

Book of the Year

The winner of the New South Wales Book of the Year is chosen from among the winners of that year's awards, with the award worth an extra A$10,000 as of 2021^[update].^[9]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Other Award	Ref
1992	Selected Poems	Elizabeth Riddell	Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
1993	Tjarany Roughtail	Gracie Green, Lucille Gill and Joe Tramacchi	Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
1994	Seasonal Adjustments	Adib Khan	Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
1995	The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia	David Horton	Special Award	[27]
1996	Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia	Tom Griffiths	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction	[28]
1997	The Drowner	Robert Drewe	Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
1999	H M Bark Endeavour	Ray Parkin	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
2000	The Binna-Binna Man	Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor	Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
2001	Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000	Anna Haebich	Gleebooks Prize
2002	The Lovemakers	Alan Wearne	Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2003	Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place	Mark McKenna	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
2004	Shanghai Dancing	Brian Castro	Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2005	Smoke Encrypted Whispers	Samuel Wagan Watson	Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2006	The Weather Makers	Tim Flannery	Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing
2007	The Arrival	Shaun Tan	Community Relations Commission Award
2008	The Lost Dog	Michelle de Kretser	Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2009	The Boat	Nam Le	UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
2010	Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit ... and the rise of Hamas	Paul McGeough	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
2011	Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs	Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
2012	That Deadman Dance	Kim Scott	Christina Stead Prize for Fiction	[52]
2013	Ruby Moonlight	Ali Cobby Eckermann	Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry	[37]
2014	Questions of Travel	Michelle de Kretser	Christina Stead Prize for Fiction	[38]
2015	The Bush	Don Watson	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction	[39]
2016	Dark Emu	Bruce Pascoe	Indigenous Writers Prize	[103]
2017	The Drover's Wife	Leah Purcell	Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting	[41][54]
2018	Taboo	Kim Scott	Indigenous Writers Prize	[42]
2019	Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia	Billy Griffiths	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction	[43]
2020	The Yield	Tara June Winch	Christina Stead Prize for Fiction	[44]
2021	Throat	Ellen van Neerven	Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry	[45][46]
2022	Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System	Safdar Ahmed	Twelve Panels Press	[47][104]
2023	We Come With This Place	Debra Dank	Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction	[49]
2024	She Is the Earth	Ali Cobby Eckermann	Indigenous Writers' Prize	[50]

Special Award

The Special Award can be proposed by the judges for a work that doesn't easily fit into the existing prizes, or as a general recognition of a writer's achievements.^[10][105] The winner received a A$10,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9]

Award winners

Year	Recipient	Ref
1982	Christina Stead
1984	Marjorie Barnard	[16]
1985	Grace Perry
1986	William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, Barry Andrews for The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, Oxford University Press
1987	Glenda Adams for Dancing on Coral, Angus & Robertson
1988	Patricia Wrightson
1989	A.D. Hope	[21]
1990	Bruce Beaver
1991	Bill Neskovski, Judith Wright
1992	Ronald McCuaig
1993	Mudrooroo Nyoongah
1994	Dal Stivens
1995	David Horton for The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press
1996	Thomas Shapcott
1997	Colin Thiele
1999	Leslie Rees
2000	Dorothy Hewett
2001	Ron Pretty
2002	Thea Astley
2003	Nick Enright
2004	Ruth Park
2005	Ruby Langford Ginibi
2006	Rosemary Dobson
2007	Gerald Murnane
2008	Tom Keneally
2009	Katharine Brisbane AM
2010	The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
2011	Libby Gleeson
2012	Clive James
2013	David Ireland AM	[37]
2014	Rodney Hall OAM	[38]
2015	David Williamson AO	[39]
2016	Dr Rosie Scott AM	[106]
2017	Not awarded
2018	Not awarded
2019	Behrouz Boochani for No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison	[43]
2020	Not awarded
2021	Melina Marchetta	[45][46]
2022	Not awarded
2023	Bankstown Poetry Slam	[80]

NSW Premier's Translation Prize

Awarded biennially, the Translation Prize is offered to Australian translators who translate works into English from other languages.^[107] The winner receives a A$30,000 prize as of 2021^[update].^[9] It will next be awarded in 2025.^[10][107]

Award winners

Year	Recipient
2001	Mabel Lee
2003	Julie Rose
2005	Chris Andrews
2007	John Nieuwenhuizen
2009	David Colmer
2011	Ian Johnston
2013	Peter Boyle[37]
2015	Brian Nelson
2017	Royall Tyler[54]
2019	Alison Entrekin[43]
2021	Alice Whitmore[45][46]
	Nick Trakakis[45][46]
2023	Tiffany Tsao[80]

Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize

The Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize was established in 2015. It is sponsored by Multicultural NSW and the winner currently receives a A$5,000 prize. The award acknowledges translators in the first ten years of their practice.^[108]

Award winners

Year	Recipient	Ref
2015	Lilit Zekulin Thwaites	[109]
2017	Jan Owen	[110]
2022	Safdar Ahmed	[111]

Indigenous Writers' Prize

The inaugural Indigenous Writers' Prize was awarded in 2016. The prize is offered biennially and the winner receives a A$30,000 prize. The prize is intended to acknowledge the contribution made to Australian literary culture by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers.^[112] The first award was shared by joint winners, Bruce Pascoe for his book Dark Emu and Ellen van Neerven for Heat and Light.^[113]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
2016	Dark Emu (joint winner)	Bruce Pascoe	Magabala Books	[114]
	Heat and Light (joint winner)	Ellen van Neerven	University of Queensland Press	[115]
2018	Taboo	Kim Scott	Text Publishing	[42]
2020	The White Girl	Tony Birch	University of Queensland Press	[44]
2022	Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams	Anita Heiss	Simon & Schuster	[47][116]
2023	We Come With This Place	Debra Dank	Echo Publishing	[49]
2024	She Is the Earth	Ali Cobby Eckermann	Magabala Books	[50]

Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing

The Gleebooks Prize was established in 1995 and was offered for Australian critical writing. The winner received a A$10,000 prize.^[117] It was last awarded in 2009 to David Love and its current status is unknown.^[10]

Award winners

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Ref
1995	Volatile Bodies, Towards a Corporeal Feminism	Elizabeth Grosz
1996	Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography	David McCooey	Cambridge University Press	[28]
1997	Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life	Alison Mackinnon
1999	Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World that Is, Was and Will Be	Diane Bell
2000	Reading the Holocaust	Inga Clendinnen
2001	Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000	Anna Haebich
2002	Borderline: Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers	Peter Mares
2003	How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia	Sylvia Lawson
2004	The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains	Martin Thomas
2005	Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race	Gillian Cowlishaw
2006	The Weather Makers: the History and Future Impact of Climate Change	Tim Flannery	Text Publishing
2007	Asbestos House: the Secret History of James Hardie Industries	Gideon Haigh
2008	Race and the Crisis of Humanism	Kay Anderson
2009	Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's interrupted revolution	David Love	Scribe Publications

See also

• Children and Young Adult Literature portal

• New South Wales Premier's History Awards
• List of Australian literary awards

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External links

• ArtsNSW – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
• The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards & NSW Premier’s History Awards