Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2020 winners announced

Fiction

• The Yield (Tara June Winch, Hamish Hamilton)

Nonfiction (joint winners)

• Songspirals: Sharing women’s wisdom of Country through songlines (Gay’wu Group of Women, A&U)
• Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia (Christina Thompson, HarperCollins)

Australian history

• Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal encounters in the Archipelago (Tiffany Shellam, UWA Publishing)

Poetry

• The Lost Arabs (Omar Sakr, UQP)

Children’s literature

• Cooee Mittigar: A story on Darug songlines (Jasmine Seymour, illus by Leanne Mulgo Watson, Magabala)

Young adult literature

• How it Feels to Float (Helena Fox, Pan).

The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in November, receive $80,000 and the shortlisted writers receive $5000. All prizes are tax-free. Winners were announced at a ceremony on 10 December in Canberra. For more information about the awards, see the website.