Fyfe wins ‘Book of the Year’ at 2025 WA Premier’s Book Awards
The winners of the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced.
The awards, presented on 29 August at the State Library of Western Australia, included four new categories to ‘showcase the work of more Western Australian authors and publishers’.
The winning authors and books in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in June are:
Book of the Year ($15,000)
- G-d, Sleep, and Chaos (Alan Fyfe, Gazebo)
Emerging Writer ($15,000)
- Matia (Emily Tsokos Purtill, UWAP)
Fiction Book of the Year ($15,000)
- Shadows of Winter Robins (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo)
Nonfiction Book of the Year ($15,000)
- Anatomy of a Secret (Gerard McCann, Fremantle)
Poetry Book of the Year ($15,000)
- G-d, Sleep, and Chaos (Alan Fyfe, Gazebo)
Children’s Book of the Year ($15,000)
- A Leaf Called Greaf (Kelly Canby, Fremantle)
Young Adult Book of the Year ($15,000)
- My Family and Other Suspects (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s)
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and Young Adult Writing ($15,000)
- Jax Paperweight and the Neon Starway by Beau Windon.
The WA Premier’s Book Awards recognise excellence in WA writing, while the Daisy Utemorrah Award is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people currently living in Australia.
More information about the winners is available on the Government of Western Australia website.
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