Queensland Premier’s Awards 2010 winners announced
J M Coetzee took out the top prize for fiction at the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards last night for Summertime (Vintage), which judges described as an ‘extraordinary book' that...
WA Prem’s 2008 and 2009 shortlists announced
The shortlist for the 2008 and 2009 Western Australian Premier's book awards have been announced. The awards are being presented for both years following the discontinuation of the Australia-Asia Literary...
NSW Prem’s awards 2010: winners announced
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced on Monday night as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. The $10,000 Book of the Year Award went to journalist Paul McGeough for...
NSW Prem’s awards: 2010 winners announced
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced in Sydney last night. The winners were: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction: Summertime (J M Coetzee, Knopf) Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction: Kill Khalid:...
NSW Premier’s History Award winners announced
The winners of this year's NSW Premier's History Awards were announced at a presentation dinner last night. The winners included: Australian History Prize ($15,000)--Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation...
2009 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced
This winners of this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night, 8 September 2009. Chloe Hooper followed up her wins in the Victorian and New South Wales Premier's...
QLD Premier’s Literary Awards–shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. Last year's Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript winner, Amy Barker, launched her debut novel Omega Park (UQP) at the shortlist...
2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards announced
The 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Award winners have been announced. Nam Le won both the Book of the Year Award ($10,000) and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing...
NSW Prem’s awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for the NSW Premier's Awards have been announced, worth a total of $320,000. In 2009, there were 640 entries received. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the awards,...
Malouf wins Australia-Asia Literary prize; Buti wins WA Prem’s prize
David Malouf's The Complete Stories (Random House) is the winner of the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award. The award, worth $110,000, was announced in Perth on Friday by Culture and Arts...
NSW Premier’s History Awards announced
The winners of the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards and History Fellowships have been announced. The awards were presented by the NSW Premier and Minister for the Arts, Nathan Rees...
Queensland Premier’s Literary Award winners announced
Helen Garner has followed her win at the Victorian Premier's awards by taking out the prize for fiction ($25,000) for The Spare Room (Text) at the Queensland Premier's Literary awards,...
Victorian Prem’s awards announced
The winners of the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced at an awards dinner at Melbourne's Federation Square on Monday night, at the end of the successful Melbourne Writers'...
Queensland prem’s awards shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards was announced last Thursday 13 August. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes include: History Book (Faculty of Arts,...
Victorian Prem’s awards shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards was announced on Friday, 8 August, by Arts Minister Lynne Kosky at the State Library of Victoria. The 2008 Awards are...
‘Lost Dog’ has its day
Michelle de Kretser pocketed $50,000 at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards on Monday, winning both the Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($40,000) and Book of the Year ($10,000) for her third...
NSW Prem’s awards shortlist announced
The NSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlist was announced today. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($20,000):Diary of a Bad Year (J M Coetzee, Text)The...
In brief
Miles Franklin and NSW Prem's shortlists next weekThe shortlists for both the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards will be announced next week--the Prem's prize shortlist on...
Queensland Prem’s Literary Awards announced
The winner's of this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were presented last night by Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, in what is likely to be his final act as Premier ahead...
Vic Prem’s Awards
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on Monday night.With a total prize pool of $195,000 awarded in 11 categories, Victorian Premier John Brumby described the awards as...