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Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024   Books+Publishing
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Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. 

The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in August, are:

Fiction

  • Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton)

Nonfiction

  • Close to the Subject: Selected Works (Daniel Browning, Magabala)

Australian history

  • Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe University Press)

Poetry

  • The Cyprian (Amy Crutchfield, Giramondo)

YA

  • We Could Be Something (Will Kostakis, A&U)

Children’s

  • Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country (Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti, Hardie Grant Explore).

This year, 533 entries were received across the six award categories. The winners and shortlisted authors share in a tax-free prize pool of $600,000. Each shortlisted author receives $5000, with the winner of each category receiving $80,000. 

In congratulating the 2024 winners, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: ‘Congratulations to this year’s winners for showcasing the diversity of Australian voices and sharing our unique stories with the world. My Government is proud to support our arts and culture sector that does incredible work all around the nation.’

Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke, said the shortlisted authors and winners ‘show there is a place for every story, and a story for every place … Through every form of the written word, they bring the Australian experience and the Australian imagination to life.’  

Established in 2008, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards recognise ‘individual excellence, and the contribution Australian authors make to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life’. This is the second year the awards have been administered by Creative Australia.

Last year’s winners were Jessica Au, Sam Vincent, Shannyn Palmer, Gavin Yuan Gao, Sarah Winifred Searle and Jasmine Seymour.

The awards were presented at a special event at the National Library of Australia in Canberra on Thursday 12 September.

More information about the winners is available from the Creative Australia website.  

 

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