The winners of the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.
Debra Dank’s We Come With This Place won the Book of the Year, Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction. Indigenous Writers’ Prize and UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing.
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The winners of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced, with a total of $350,000 being awarded across the 14 prizes
According to Senior Judge, Jane McCredie: “This year’s awards celebrate the courage, diversity and sheer brilliance of contemporary Australian writing. Our judges assessed a record 856 entries exploring a huge range of style and subject matter. It’s exciting to see so many debut works recognised this year, and we look forward to hearing more from these writers in the future.”
LIST OF WINNERS
Book of the Year ($10,000)
We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo)
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)
Women I Know (Katerina Gibson, Scribner)
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Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction ($40,000)
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000)
The Singer and Other Poems by Kim Cheng Boey
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)
The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia’s First Peoples by Corey Tutt & Blak Douglas
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000)
The Upwelling by Lystra Rose
Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000)
Whitefella Yella Tree by Dylan Van Den Berg
Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000)
Blaze by Del Kathryn Barton & Huna Amweero
Multicultural NSW Award ($30,000)
The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey
Indigenous Writers’ Prize ($30,000)
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
NSW Premier’s Translation Prize ($30,000 — biennial award)
People from Bloomington by Budi Darma, trans by Tiffany Tsao
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5000)
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
The People’s Choice Award ($5000)
Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm)
Special award
Bankstown Poetry Slam
