WA Premier’s Book Awards winners announced

The winners of the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced.

Chosen from shortlists announced in May, the winners in each category are:

The Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship ($60,000)

• Tracy Ryan

Premier’s Prize for Book of the Year ($15,000)

• The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard (Nathan Hobby, MUP)

The Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000)

• Banjawarn (Josh Kemp, UWAP)

Premier’s Prize for Children’s Book of the Year ($15,000)

• Wild Australian Life (Leonard Cronin, illus by Chris Nixon, A&U)

The Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Fiction ($15,000 and a publishing contract with Magabala)

• Uncle Xbox Book 2: Getting Dusty (Jared Thomas).

The winners were announced at an award ceremony at the State Library of Western Australia. The WA Premier’s Literary Awards recognise excellence in WA writing, while the Daisy Utemorrah Award is open to Indigenous writers from all states and territories. The new Premier’s Prize for Book of the Year category has been made possible by sponsorship from Writing WA.

For more information, see the State Library of WA website.

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