The winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced.

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.

Congratulations to the winners in each category.

Fiction (Joint Winners)

• The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

Poetry

• The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt

Non-fiction (Joint Winners)

• On Stalin’s Team: The years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Thea Astley: Inventing her own Weather by Karen Lamb

Prize for Australian History (Joint winners)

• The Story of Australia’s People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey AC
• Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959-89 by Sam Lipski and Suzanne D Rutland

Young adult fiction

• Sister Heart by Sally Morgan

Children’s fiction

• A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay

Read more about the winning and shortlisted titles, as well as the Award itself here.