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NSW Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established by Premier Neville Wran in 1979 to honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers.
2009  Book of the Year & UTS Award for New Writing
The Boat The Boat
Author: Nam Le
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories General
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories Single Author
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in ...
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 People's Choice Award
A Fraction of the Whole A Fraction of the Whole
Author: Steve Toltz
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them. Heroes or criminals? Crackpo ...
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 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
The Good Parents The Good Parents
Author: Joan London
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to s ...
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 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
The Tall Man The Tall Man
Author: Chloe Hooper
Category:History - Australia & Oceania
Category:True Stories - Crime

In 2004 Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old resident of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Within 45 minutes he was dead. The main suspect was well respected Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley ...
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 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Lit.
The Word Spy The Word Spy
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Crafts & Hobbies
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Games & Activities
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Language Arts

Discover the meaning of acronyms, cliches and spoonerisms. Find out the history of the alphabet, punctuation, pen names and plurals. Learn how to trick your friends by speaking in Pig Latin or rhyming slang. This enterta ...
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 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Lit.
A Brief History of Montmaray A Brief History of Montmaray
Author: Michelle Cooper
Category:Childrens Fiction - Historical

Sophie FitzOsborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray, along with her tomboy younger sister Henry, her beautiful, intellectual cousin Veronica, and Veronica's father, the completely mad K ...
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 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Man Wolf Man Man Wolf Man
Author: L K Holt & L K Holt L.K. Holt
Category:Poetry - General
Category:Poetry - Anthologies
Category:Poetry - Works by Indvidual Poets

LK Holt's poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half-rhyme (and quarter-rhyme) and turns fo ...
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 Play Award
The Serpent's Teeth The Serpent's Teeth
Author: Daniel Keene
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Theatre Anthologies
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Theatre Drama Texts & Plays

Citizens is set at the dividing wall of an unspecified war-torn country. Over the course of the play, the fragility and nobility of the human spirit at its most vulnerable is carefully probed and laid bare. Soldiers has ...
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 Community Relations Award
Destination Australia Destination Australia
Author: Eric Richards
Category:History - Australia & Oceania
Category:Social Science - Emigration & Immigration

In 1901 most Australians were loyal, white subjects of the British Empire with direct connections to Britain. Within a hundred years, following an unparalleled immigration program, its population was one of the most dive ...
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 Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing
Unfinished Business Unfinished Business
Author: David Love
Category:Business & Economics - Economic Conditions
Category:Business & Economics - Economics
Category:Business & Economics - Economics International
Category:Politics & Government - Government National Government
Category:Politics & Government - Government Leaders & Leadership

In the early 1980s, Paul Keating set out to reinvent the Australian economy. He floated the Australian dollar, liberated banking and finance from its regulatory shackles, and - most significantly - introduced a universal ...
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 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Slicing the Silence Slicing the Silence
Author: Tom Griffiths
Category:True Stories - Discovery, Historical & Endurance
Category:Travel - Regional - Polar Regions General
Category:Travel - Travel Writing General

In the summer of 2002-03, accalimed writer and historian Tom Griffiths voyaged the Southern Ocean to Antarctica. Interweaves his own diary entries with rich and engaging essays on Antarctic history, science and culture.
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 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Two Kinds of Silence Two Kinds of Silence
Author: Kathryn Lomer
Category:Poetry - Anthologies
Category:Poetry - Regional Australian & Oceanian

Bold and musical, this collection of poetry invokes the splendor of the Tasmanian coastline and high country. From a poet known for her intense and alluring examinations of the Australian landscape, this new work also co ...
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 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Lit.
The Peasant Prince The Peasant Prince
Author: Li Cunxin
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - General
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:True Stories - General

This true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, is a fairytale that has already captivated many childr ...
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 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Lit.
Town Town
Author: James Roy
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories General
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories Single Author
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

From a town near you comes thirteen linked stories, spanning a year in the lives of thirteen young people. You'll live their love and loss, grief, humour and passion feel their hope and hopelessness. From the serendipity ...
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 Community Relations Award
Sunrise West Sunrise West
Author: Jacob G. Rosenberg
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military General
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Memoirs

Navigating between the two worlds of wartime experiences in Europe and new life in Australia, this moving memoir of a Holocaust survivor is imbued with an element of fiction. This deeply personal narrative travels from d ...
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 UTS Award for New Writing
Feather Man Feather Man
Author: Rhyll McMaster
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Set in Brisbane during the stultifying 1950s, this intelligent tale of the treachery of love focuses on art and creation, as well as the lasting effects of child molestation. Sookie is a young artist, growing up in a dis ...
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 Play Award
Stories in the Dark Stories in the Dark
Author: Debra Oswald
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Theatre Anthologies
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Theatre Drama Texts & Plays

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his ...
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2007  UTS Award for New Writing
Swallow the Air Swallow the Air
Author: Tara Jane Winch
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by an aunt. However their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't want them. May sets off to find her father and her ...
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 Play Award
Strangers in Between: Adaptation Strangers in Between: Adaptation
Author: Tony Murphy & Timothy Conigrave
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Theatre Anthologies
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Theatre Drama Texts & Plays

There's a climate of fear in friendly Goulbourn and Shane is forced from his family, and flees to Kings Cross. A lost boy in a loopy neighbourhood, Shane is unsure of his sexuality, more unsure of how to find intimacy an ...
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 NSW Premier's Translation Prize
The Book of Everything The Book of Everything
Author: Guus Kuijer & John Nieuwenhuizen
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Foreign Language Study

Thomas sees amazing things that no one else can see: tropical fish swimming in the canal, sparrows playing bright trumpets and frogs wriggling through the letterbox. When his father hits his mother, Thomas sees the angel ...
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 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Urban Myths Urban Myths
Author: John Tranter
Category:Literary Criticism - Poetry
Category:Poetry - Anthologies
Category:Poetry - Regional Australian & Oceanian

John Tranter's poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art, so that we arrive, unexpectedly at the deepest human mysteries.
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 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Lit.
The Red Shoe The Red Shoe
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Category:Childrens Fiction - Action & Adventure

Six-year-old Matilda lives in 1950s Sydney with her parents and two sisters. Filtering through her eyes is the mad and marvellous world of that era and, punctuated by the headlines of the time, the lives of the three gir ...
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 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Theft: A Love Story Theft: A Love Story
Author: Peter Carey
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

'I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not onl ...
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 Book of the Year & Community Relations Award
The Arrival The Arrival
Author: Shaun Tan
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

The Arrival is a 128 page book of illustrations without words, a silent graphic novel. Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of a migrant leaving his home, crossing an ocean to a strange new city and ...
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 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Lit.
Home Home
Author: Narelle Oliver
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

After a hard day flying the falcons arrive in a large city. They make their nests on a ledge in a multi storey building and the males set off to hunt prey. Ages 5+.
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 Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing
Asbestos House Asbestos House
Author: Gideon Haigh
Category:Business & Economics - International
Category:Business & Economics - Labor
Category:Business & Economics - Industrial Management
Category:History - Australia & Oceania
Category:Science - Environmental Science

Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asb ...
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 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Things I Didn't Know Things I Didn't Know
Author: Robert Hughes
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:History - Civilization

Shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non Fiction There have been, in the past 20 years or so, several memoirs that have struck a crucial intellectual and emotional chord. William Styron's DARK ...
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 KENNETH SLESSOR PRIZE FOR POETRY
Smoke Encrypted Whispers Smoke Encrypted Whispers
Author: Samuel Wagan Watson
Category:Poetry - Anthologies
Category:Poetry - Regional Australian & Oceanian

Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished ...
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 ETHEL TURNER PRIZE
By the River By the River
Author: Steven Herrick
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

A memorable novel about the tough and tender sides of growing up in a small country town. Fourteen-year-old Harry has a knack for wriggling out of trouble, but escaping the constraints and memories that keep him trapped ...
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 DOUGLAS STEWART PRIZE FOR NON FICTION
The Idea of Home The Idea of Home
Author: John Hughes
Category:Social Science - Emigration & Immigration

In this collection of autobiographical essays, John Huges reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War. Wi ...
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 CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION
The Turning The Turning
Author: Tim Winton
Category:Fiction -
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Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories Single Author
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Tim Winton returns to form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. These elegiac stories examine the darkness and frali ...
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