NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 winners announced
The winners of the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.
Safdar Ahmed’s graphic novel Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s immigration detention system (Twelve Panels Press) was awarded the overall $10,000 Book of the Year award, as well as the $20,000 Multicultural NSW Award.
The full list of winning titles in each category are:
Book of the Year ($10,000)
- Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s immigration detention system (Safdar Ahmed, Twelve Panels Press)
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)
- Dark as Last Night (Tony Birch, UQP)
Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction ($40,000)
- The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek (Kate Holden, Black Inc.)
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000)
- accelerations & inertias (Dan Disney, Vagabond Press)
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)
- My Brother Ben (Peter Carnavas, UQP)
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000)
- The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text)
Multicultural NSW Award ($20,000)
- Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s immigration detention system (Safdar Ahmed, Twelve Panels Press)
Indigenous Writers’ Prize, presented biennially ($30,000)
- Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (Anita Heiss, S&S)
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5000)
- Hold Your Fire (Chloe Wilson, Scribner)
Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000)
- Orange Thrower (Kirsty Marillier, Griffin Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta/Currency Press)
Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000)
- Nitram (Shaun Grant, Good Thing Productions)
People’s Choice Award
- The Shut Ins (Katherine Brabon, A&U).
The winners, chosen from shortlists announced in April, were announced last night at the State Library of NSW. This year the awards received a record 746 entries across 10 prize categories.
For more information, see the State Library of NSW website.
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