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 Literary Awards Shortlist 2010
The shortlists for this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles are:Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Summertime (J M Coetzee, Vintage)Wanting (Richard Flanagan, Vintage)The World Beneath...
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,...
NSW Premier’s History Awards shortlist announced
The shortlist for the NSW Premier's History Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles were chosen from 268 audio/visual and book entries. Each of the book prizes is worth $15,000...
‘The Lost Dog’ wins ALS Gold Medal
The Lost Dog by Michelle De Kretser (A&U) has been named the winner of this year's Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for an outstanding literary work. The award has...
‘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...
Prize money doubled at NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Total prize money across the 11 award categories in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards has been doubled to $290,000, the state’s arts minister announced at the awards on Monday night.‘It is appropriate that the...
NSW Premier’s History Awards winners
The 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards and Fellowship winners were announced by the NSW Minister for the Arts, Frank Sartor, in Sydney last night.The annual awards were instituted in 1997...
NSW Premier’s History Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for the�NSW Premier's History Awards have been announced. There are seven categories, each�worth $15 000.The�shortlisted titles are:Australian History PrizeBlack Founders: the Unknown Story of Australia?s First Black Settlers...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards announced
Shaun Tan's extraordinary picture book The Arrival (Hachette Livre Australia)--the story of one man's immigrant experience, told entirely without words--has been named Book of the Year at the 2007 NSW...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2007 shortlists
The shortlists for the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced on 29 May, during the Sydney Writers' Festival. The main book category shortlists...
NSW PREM’S AWARDS
NSW Premier Morris Iemma presented this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards last night, naming Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers (Text) as winner of both the $10,000 Gleebooks Prize and the...