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
- Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill
Poetry
- Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence
Non-fiction
- Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell
Prize for Australian History
- Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story by Elizabeth Tynan
Young adult fiction
- Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Children’s fiction (Joint winners)
- Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr
- Home in the Rain by Bob Graham
