New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
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The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat writers and artists with respect and understanding, the community will be more likely to do the same."[1] Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction.
Note: no awards were presented in 1998.
[edit] Christina Stead Prize for fiction
- 2008 The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- 2007 Theft: a Love Story by Peter Carey
- 2006 The Secret River by Kate Grenville
- 2005 The Turning by Tim Winton
- 2004 Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro
- 2003 Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
- 2002 Dirt Music by Tim Winton
- 2001 Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller
- 2000 The Salt of Broken Tears by Michael Meehan
- 1999 Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
- 1997 The Drowner by Robert Drewe
- 1996 Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe
- 1995 Just Like That by Lily Brett
- 1994 Seasonal Adjustments by Adib Khan
- 1993 Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
- 1992 The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys
- 1991 JF Was Here by Nigel Krauth
- 1990 Reaching Tin River by Thea Astley
- 1989 Broken Words by Helen Hodgman
- 1988 Final Things by John Sligo
- 1987 No award made
- 1986 Postcards from Surfers by Helen Garner
- 1985 Milk and Honey by Elizabeth Jolley
- 1984 Milk by Beverley Farmer
- 1983 The Cure by Peter Kocan
- 1982 Bliss by Peter Carey
- 1981 The Impersonators by Jessica Anderson
- 1980 War Crimes by Peter Carey
- 1979 An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
[edit] Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction
- 2008 Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica by Tom Griffiths
- 2007 Things I Didn't Know: a Memoir by Robert Hughes
- 2006 East of Time by Jacob G. Rosenberg
- 2005 The Idea of Home: autobiographical essays by John Hughes
- 2004 Dancing with Strangers by Inga Clendinnen
- 2003 Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
- 2002 The Poison Principle by Gail Bell
- 2001 Craft for a Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
- 2000 Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska
- 1999 H M Bark Endeavour by Ray Parkin
- 1997 The Europeans in Australia: A History, Volume One by Alan Atkinson
- 1996 Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths
- 1995 The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
- 1994 Australia's Spies and Their Secrets by David McKnight; The Scandalous Penton by Patrick Buckridge
- 1993 Robert Menzies Forgotten People by Judith Brett; Put Your Whole Self In by Meme McDonald
- 1992 Patrick White by David Marr
- 1991 Sitting In by Barry Hill; Poppy by Drusilla Modjeska
- 1990 The Snowy by Siobhan McHugh
- 1989 His Mother's Country by Maslyn Williams
- 1988 Louisa by Brian Matthews
- 1987 The Irish In Australia by Patrick O'Farrell
- 1986 A Paper Prince by George Munster; The Kurnai of Gippsland, Volume One by Phillip Pepper with Tess De Araugo
- 1985 The Moon Man by Elsie Webster
- 1984 The Archibald Paradox by Sylvia Lawson
- 1983 Robert J. Hawke by Blanche d'Alpuget
- 1982 Rebels and Precursors by Richard Haese
- 1981 A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey
- 1980 Barwick by David Marr
- 1979 A History of Australia Volume IV by Manning Clark
[edit] Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2008 Two Kinds of Silence by Kathryn Lomer
- 2007 Urban Myths:210 Poems by John Tranter
- 2006 Latecomers by Jaya Savige
- 2005 Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
- 2004 Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems by Pam Brown
- 2003 Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems by Jill Jones
- 2002 The Lovemakers by Alan Wearne
- 2001 Africa by Ken Taylor
- 2000 Mines by Jennifer Maiden
- 1999 Race Against Time by Lee Cataldi
- 1997 The Viewfinder by Anthony Lawrence
- 1996 Weeping for Lost Babylon by Eric Beach; Selected Poems by J. S. Harry
- 1995 Coming Home From the World by Peter Boyle
- 1994 Ghosting William Buckley by Barry Hill
- 1993 Translations from the Natural World by Les A. Murray
- 1992 Selected Poems by Elizabeth Riddell
- 1991 The Winter Baby by Jennifer Maiden
- 1990 The Clean Dark by Robert Adamson
- 1989 Under Berlin by John Tranter
- 1988 The Domesticity of Giraffes by Judith Beveridge
- 1987 Blood and Bone by Philip Hodgins
- 1986 Selected Poems 1963-83 by Robert Gray
- 1985 Your Shadow by Kevin Hart
- 1984 The People's Other World by Les A. Murray
- 1983 Tide Country by Vivian Smith
- 1982 Kaddish and Other Poems by Fay Zwicky
- 1981 Astral Sea by Alan Gould
- 1980 Man in the Honeysuckle by David Campbell
[edit] NSW Premier's Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship
- 2008 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a Literary Life by William Christie
- 2006 Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire by Terry Collits
- 2004 Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry Hill
[edit] Ethel Turner Prize for young people's literature
- 2008 Town by James Roy
- 2007 The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky
- 2006 Theodora's Gift by Ursula Dubosarsky
- 2005 By the River by Steven Herrick
- 2004 Boys of Blood and Bone by David Metzenthen
- 2003 The Messenger by Markus Zusak
- 2002 Soldier Boy: The True Story of Jim Martin, the Youngest Anzac by Anthony Hill
- 2001 Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
- 2000 The Binna-Binna Man by Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor
- 1999 The Divine Wind by Garry Disher
- 1997 The Two Bullies by Junko Morimoto
- 1996 Johnny Hart's Heroes by David Metzenthen
- 1995 Mr Enigmatic by Jenny Pausacker
- 1994 The White Guinea Pig by Ursula Dubosarsky
- 1993 Tjarany Roughtail by Gracie Greene, Lucille Gill and Joe Tramacchi
- 1992 All in the Blue Unclouded Weather by Robin Klein
- 1991 Strange Objects by Gary Crew
- 1990 The Blue Chameleon by Katherine Scholes
- 1989 You Take the High Road by Mary Pershall
- 1988 Answers to Brut by Gillian Rubinstein
- 1987 A Rabbit Named Harris by Nan Hunt and Betina Ogden
- 1986 The True Story of Spit MacPhee by James Aldridge
- 1985 The House That was Eureka by Nadia Wheatley
- 1984 Possum Magic by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
- 1983 Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen; Five Times Dizzy by Nadia Wheatley (Special Children's book)
- 1982 Whistle Up the Chimney by Nan Hunt and Craig Smith
- 1981 When the Wind Changed by Ruth Park and Deborah Niland; Seventh Pebble by Eleanor Spence
- 1980 Mr Archimedes' Bath by Pamela Allen; Land of the Rainbow Snake by Catherine Berndt (Special Children's book)
- 1979 John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat by Jenny Wagner; The Dark Bright Water by Patricia Wrightson (Special Children's book)
[edit] Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature
- 2008 The Peasant Prince by Li Cunxin, (Anne Spudvilas, illus)
- 2007 Home by Narelle Oliver
- 2006 In the Monkey Forest by Kierin Meehan
- 2005 Farm Kid by Sherryl Clark
- 2004 Night Singing by Kierin Meehan
- 2003 Where in the World by Simon French
- 2002 The Red Tree by Shaun Tan
- 2001 Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks (illustrator)
- 2000 The Spangled Drongo by Steven Herrick
- 1999 Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman by Odo Hirsch
[edit] Community Relations Commission Award
(Note from 1980 to 2000 called the Ethnic Affairs Commission Award)
- 2008 Sunrise West by Jacob G. Rosenberg
- 2007 The Arrival by Shaun Tan
- 2006 The Secret River by Kate Grenville
- 2005 A Certain Maritime Incident: the sinking of SIEV X by Tony Kevin
- 2004 Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society by Ghassan Hage
- 2003 Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files by Mara Moustafine
- 2002 Visits Home: Migration Experiences between Italy and Australia by Loretta Baldassar
- 2001 Rabbit-Proof Fence by Christine Olsen
[edit] Ethnic Affairs Commission Award
- 2000 The Binna-Binna Man by Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor
- 1999 Mortal Divide: the Autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou by George Alexander
- 1997 The Fiftieth Gate by Mark Raphael Baker
- 1996 Caravanserai by Hanifa Deen
- 1995 The First Book of Samuel by Ursula Dubosarsky
- 1994 Aphrodite and the Others by Gillian Bouras
- 1993 The Crocodile Fury by Beth Yahp
- 1992 Inside Outside by Andrew Riemer
- 1991 Jewels and Ashes by Arnold Zable
- 1987 Dreamtime Nightmares by Bill Rosser
- 1986 No Snow In December by Maria Lewitt
- 1985 Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
- 1984 A Universe of Clowns by Serge Liberman
- 1983 Faith of Our Fathers by Spiro Zavos
- 1982 The Long Farewell by Don Charlwood
- 1981 For the Patriarch by Angelo Loukakis
- 1980 Australia through Italian Eyes by Stephanie Lindsay Thompson
[edit] Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing
- 2008 Race and the Crisis of Humanism by Kay Anderson
- 2007 Asbestos House: the Secret History of James Hardie Industries by Gideon Haigh
- 2006 The Weather Makers: the History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
- 2005 Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race by Gillian Cowlishaw
- 2004 The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains by Martin Thomas
- 2003 How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia by Sylvia Lawson
- 2002 Borderline: Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers by Peter Mares
- 2001 Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 by Anna Haebich
- 2000 Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen
- 1999 Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World that Is, Was and Will Be by Diane Bell
- 1997 Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life by Alison Mackinnon
- 1996 Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography by David McCooey
- 1995 Volatile Bodies, Towards a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz
[edit] UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Award renamed in 2008 from the UTS Award for New Writing to honour Glenda Adams.[2]
- 2008 Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster
- 2007 Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
- 2006 An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang
- 2005 The Last Ride by Denise Young
[edit] Play Award
- 2008 Stories in the Dark by Debra Oswald
- 2007 Holding the Man by Tommy Murphy, adapted from the book by Timothy Conigrave, Griffin Theatre Company
- 2006 Strangers in Between by Tommy Murphy
- 2005 Harbour by Katherine Thomson
- 2004 Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America by Stephen Sewell
- 2003 Half & Half by Daniel Keene
- 2002 Miss Tanaka by John Romeril
- 2001 Milo's Wake by Margery Forde and Michael Forde
- 2000 Scissors, Paper, Rock by Daniel Keene
- 1999 Box the Pony by Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell
- 1997 Jerusalem by Michael Gurr
- 1996 The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto
- 1995 Sweet Phoebe by Michael Gow; Falling From Grace by Hannie Rayson
- 1994 Sex Diary of an Infidel by Michael Gurr
- 1993 Dead Heart by Nicholas Parsons
- 1992 Cosi by Louis Nowra
- 1991 Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson
- 1989 Hate by Stephen Sewell
- 1988 The Rivers of China by Alma De Groen
- 1987 Blood Relations by David Malouf
- 1986 Away by Michael Gow
- 1985 The Blind Giant is Dancing by Stephen Sewell
- 1984 Down an Alley Filled with Cats by Warwick Moss
- 1983 Variations by Nicholas Enright and Terence Clarke
[edit] Script Writing Award
(Note: in 1990 the Film, Television and Radio Writing Awards were amalgamated in this one award)
- 2008 Forbidden Lie$ by Anna Broinowsk
- 2007 The Home Song Stories by Tony Ayres
- 2006 We Can Be Heroes by Chris Lilley
- 2005 The Art of War by Betty Churcher
- 2004 Marking Time by John Doyle
- 2003 Till Human Voices Wake Us by Michael Petroni
- 2002 My Mother India by Safina Uberoi
- 2001 Rabbit-Proof Fence by Christine Olsen
- 2000 Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
- 1999 Dance Me to My Song by Heather Rose, Frederick Stahl and Rolf de Heer
- 1997 Mabo: Life of an Island Man by Trevor Graham
- 1996 Blue Murder by Ian David
- 1995 Playing the Ego Card by Jane Kennedy, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch
- 1994 Bad Boy Bubby by Rolf de Heer
- 1993 Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
- 1992 Dingo by Marc Rosenberg
- 1990 Sweetie by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee; An Angel at my Table by Laura Jones
[edit] Film Writing Award
- 1988 High Tide by Laura Jones
- 1987 Malcolm by David Parker
- 1986 Bliss by Peter Carey and Ray Lawrence
- 1985 My First Wife by Bob Ellis and Paul Cox
- 1984 Careful He Might Hear You by Michael Jenkins
[edit] Radio Writing Award
- 1989 The Story of Anger Lee Bredenza by Alana Valentine
- 1988 Australia-Japan: A Love Story by Keith Gallasch and Virginia Baxter
[edit] Television Writing Award
- 1989 The True Believers by Bob Ellis and Stephen Ramsay
- 1988 Olive by Anthony Wheeler
- 1987 Two Friends by Helen Garner
- 1985 The Cowra Breakout by Margaret Kelly, Chris Noonan, Phillip Noyce and Russell Braddon
- 1984 Scales of Justice by Robert Caswell
[edit] NSW Premier's Translation Prize & PEN Medallion
- 2007 John Nieuwenhuizen
- 2005 Chris Andrews
- 2001 Mabel Lee
[edit] Book of the Year
- 2008 The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- 2007 The Arrival by Shaun Tan
- 2005 Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
- 2004 Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro
- 2003 Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
- 2002 The Lovemakers by Alan Wearne
- 2001 Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 by Anna Haebich
- 2000 The Binna-Binna Man by Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor
- 1999 H M Bark Endeavour by Ray Parkin
- 1997 The Drowner by Robert Drewe
- 1996 Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths
- 1995 The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia by David Horton
- 1994 Seasonal Adjustments by Adib Khan
- 1993 Tjarany Roughtail by Gracie Green, Lucille Gill and Joe Tramacchi
- 1992 Selected Poems by Elizabeth Riddell
[edit] Special Award
- 2008 Tom Keneally
- 2007 Gerald Murnane
- 2006 Rosemary Dobson
- 2005 Ruby Langford Ginibi
- 2004 Ruth Park
- 2003 Nick Enright
- 2002 Thea Astley
- 2001 Ron Pretty
- 2000 Dorothy Hewett
- 1999 Leslie Rees
- 1997 Colin Thiele
- 1996 Thomas Shapcott
- 1995 David Horton for The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press
- 1994 Dal Stivens
- 1993 Mudrooroo Nyoongah
- 1992 Ronald McCuaig
- 1991 Bill Neskovski, Judith Wright
- 1990 Bruce Beaver
- 1989 A D Hope
- 1988 Patricia Wrightson
- 1987 Glenda Adams for Dancing on Coral, Angus & Robertson
- 1986 William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, Barry Andrews for The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, Oxford University Press
- 1985 Dr Grace Perry
- 1984 Marjorie Barnard
- 1982 Christina Stead
[edit] Notes
- ^ Neville Wran. Arts NSW. Retrieved on 2008-03-11.
- ^ Message from the Minister. Arts NSW. Retrieved on 2008-03-11.
[edit] References
[edit] See also
- List of Australian literary awards
- Australian History Awards
- New South Wales Premier's History Awards
