Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
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The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (PBA) is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia
, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia
. Awards are given in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, Western Australian History, children's book, writing for Young Adults, scripts and digital narrative. An overall winner is awarded the Premier's Prize.
The title of the award refers to the year of publication, rather than the year in which the awards were announced. So, the 2010 awards were announced in 2011, for works published in 2010.
The Award includes prize amounts as follows: $15,000 for Fiction, Non-fiction and Children's Books. $10,000 for Young Adults, WA History, Poetry and Scripts. $5,000 for People's Choice and Digital Narrative. The Premier's Prize carries prize money of $25,000.
2007
The winners were announced in 2008. The overall winner was Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen's Ziba Came on a Boat.
2006
The overall winner was Shaun Tan's The Arrival.
2005
The overall winner was Davenport etc.. Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert
2004
The overall winner was Gail Jones' Sixty Lights
2003
The overall winner was Reg Cribb's Last Cab to Darwin
2002
The overall winner was Richard Bosworth's Mussolini
2001
The overall winner was Tim Winton's Dirt Music
2000
The overall winner was Michèle Drouart's Into the Wadi
1999
The overall winner was Kim Scott's Benang: From the Heart
1998
1997
1996
Government of Western Australia
The formation of the Government of Western Australia is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1890, although it has been amended many times since then...
, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia
State Library of Western Australia
The State Library of Western Australia is located within the building known as the Alexander Library Building, in the Cultural Centre of Perth, Western Australia....
. Awards are given in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, Western Australian History, children's book, writing for Young Adults, scripts and digital narrative. An overall winner is awarded the Premier's Prize.
The title of the award refers to the year of publication, rather than the year in which the awards were announced. So, the 2010 awards were announced in 2011, for works published in 2010.
The Award includes prize amounts as follows: $15,000 for Fiction, Non-fiction and Children's Books. $10,000 for Young Adults, WA History, Poetry and Scripts. $5,000 for People's Choice and Digital Narrative. The Premier's Prize carries prize money of $25,000.
2010 winners
The 2010 winners were announced in September 2011. The overall winner was Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance- Fiction: Kim ScottKim ScottKim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...
, That Deadman Dance - People's Choice: Lisa Lang, Utopian Man
- Poetry: Mark Tredinnick, Fire Diary
- Non-fiction: Jim Davidson, The Historian: W K Hancock
- Western Australian History: Susanna Iuliano, Vite Italiane, Italian Lives in Western Australia
- Children's book: Sally MurphySally MurphySally Murphy is an Australian children’s author and poet, who has had thirty books published, including verse novels, picture books, and educational titles.-Biography:...
& Rhian Nest James, Toppling - Writing for Young Adults: Scot Gardner, Happy as Larry and James RoyJames RoyJames Roy is an Australian writer. He writes primarily for young adults and children, and in addition to his native Australia, his books are published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany and South Korea.Roy's parents were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Papua...
, Anonymity Jones - Script: Tommy Murphy, Gwen in Purgatory
- Digital Narrative: Robin Craig Clark, The Garden
2009 winners
The 2008 & 2009 winners were announced September 2010. The overall winner was Shirley Barrett's South Solitary.- Fiction:
- Craig SilveyCraig SilveyCraig Silvey is an Australian novelist and musician.Silvey grew up on an orchard at Dwellingup in the south-west of Western Australia. He currently lives in Fremantle.-Literary career:...
, Jasper Jones - J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
- Craig Silvey
- Poetry: Kate Middleton, Fire Season
- Non-fiction: Iain McCalmanIain McCalmanIain McCalman is an Australian historian, and research professor at the University of Sydney. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth British and European history and has a particular interest in popular culture and low life...
, Darwin's Armada - Western Australian History: Penelope Hetherington, Paupers, Poor Relief & Poor Houses
- Children's book: Margaret WildMargaret WildMargaret Wild is an Australian author. She was born in 1948 in Eschew, a small town in South Africa, and came to Australia in 1972. She now lives in Sydney. Before becoming a fulltime writer, Margaret was a journalist for newspapers and magazines and then she worked for sixteen years as a book...
& Freya BlackwoodFreya BlackwoodFreya Blackwood is an illustrator and special effects artist who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Blackwood is notable for her work with the special effects of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy movies from 2001 to 2003 as well as for her illustrations in the children's book Harry & Hopper,...
, Harry & Hopper - Writing for Young Adults: Justine LarbalestierJustine LarbalestierJustine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
, Liar - Script: Shirley Barett, South Solitary
2008 winners
The 2008 & 2009 winners were announced September 2010. The overall winner was Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man.- Fiction: Richard FlanaganRichard FlanaganRichard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
, Wanting - Poetry: Bronwyn LeaBronwyn LeaBronwyn Lea is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University...
, The Other Way Out - Non-fiction: Chloe HooperChloe HooperChloe Hooper is an Australian author. Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime , was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book...
, The Tall Man - Western Australian History: Brian Dibble, Doing Life: A biography of Elizabeth Jolley
- Children's book: Bob GrahamBob Graham (author / illustrator)Bob Graham is an Australian children's author and illustrator. His books include Max, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award, Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child, which won the Kate Greenaway Medal, and "Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.-Awards and...
, How to Heal a Broken Wing - Writing for Young Adults: Shaun TanShaun TanShaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival...
, Tales from Outer Suburbia - Script: Damien Millar, The Modern International Dead
20072007 in Australian literatureThe year 2007 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2007 in literature.See also:2006 in Australian literature,2007 in Australia,...
winners
The winners were announced in 2008. The overall winner was Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen's Ziba Came on a Boat.- Fiction: Stephen Scourfield, Other Country (Allen & UnwinAllen & UnwinAllen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
) - Poetry: Hal ColebatchHal Gibson Pateshall ColebatchHal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch , also known as Hal G. P. Colebatch and Hal Colebatch is an Australian author, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer.-Personal history:...
, The Light River (Connorcourt Publishing) - Non-fiction: Antonio Buti, Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience (University of Western Australia Press)
- Western Australian History: Ruth Marchant James, Cottesloe: A Town of Distinction (Town of Cottesloe)
- Children's book: Liz Lofthouse and Robert IngpenRobert IngpenRobert Roger Ingpen is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and author.-Early life:Ingpen was born in Geelong Australia and attended Geelong College to 1957...
, Ziba Came on a Boat (Viking Books) - Writing for Young Adults: Ken SpillmanKen SpillmanKen Spillman is a writer based in Perth, Western Australia. Best known as a prolific author of books for children and young adults, his work has spanned diverse genres including poetry, sports writing and literary criticism...
, Love is a UFO (Pan Macmillan Australia) - Script: Elissa DownElissa DownElissa Down is an Australian filmmaker. In 1999 and 2000 Elissa was nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards.Her major works comprise of a number of award winning short films, Summer Angst, The Cherry Orchard, Her Outback, The Bathers, Pink Pyjamas, HMAS Unicorn and...
and Jimmy the Exploder The Black Balloon (Black Balloon Film Productions)
20062006 in Australian literatureThe year 2006 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2006 in literature.See also:2005 in Australian literature,2006 in Australia,...
winners
The overall winner was Shaun Tan's The Arrival.- Fiction: Simone LazarooSimone LazarooSimone Lazaroo is an Australian author. Born in Singapore, she migrated with her family to Western Australia as a young child. Her background is Eurasian. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia and teaches Creative Writing at Murdoch University....
The Travel Writer (Pan Macmillan Australia) - Poetry: Dennis Haskell All the Time in the World (Salt PublishingSalt PublishingSalt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...
) - Non-fiction:
- Quentin Beresford Rob Riley: an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice (Aboriginal Studies Press)
- Peter Edwards Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins (Allen & UnwinAllen & UnwinAllen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
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- Western Australian History: Bobbie Oliver and Patrick Bertola The Workshops: A History of the Midland Government Railway Workshops (University of Western AustraliaUniversity of Western AustraliaThe University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
Press) - Children's book: Shaun TanShaun TanShaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival...
The Arrival (Hachette Livre Australia) - Writing for Young Adults: Kate McCaffrey Destroying Avalon (Fremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia....
Press) - Script: Hellie Turner Sardines (Tropic Sun Theatre QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
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20052005 in Australian literatureThe year 2005 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2005 in literature.See also:2004 in Australian literature,2005 in Australia,...
winners
The overall winner was Davenport etc.. Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert- Fiction: Carrie TiffanyCarrie TiffanyCarrie Tiffany is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger.-Biography:Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia...
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (PicadorPicador (imprint)Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
) - Poetry: Rod Moran The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005 (Salt PublishingSalt PublishingSalt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...
) - Non-fiction:
- Richard Bosworth Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 (Allen Lane/Penguin)
- Philippa NikulinskyPhilippa NikulinskyPhilippa Nikulinsky, born in 1942, is an artist and botanical illustrator based in Western Australia.-Biography:Nikulinsky was born in Kalgoorlie in 1942, a remote region in central Western Australia. She began working as an illustrator of natural history in the mid 1970s, specialising in plants...
and Stephen D Hopper Soul of the Desert (Fremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia....
Press)
- Western Australian History: Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson and Yuwali Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert (Aboriginal Studies Press)
- Children's book: Wendy Binks Where's Stripey? (Stunned Emu Press)
- Writing for Young Adults: Kirsty MurrayKirsty MurrayKirsty Murray is an Australian author. Murray writes children's fiction with a focus on Australian history. She is well known for the Children of the Wind series of children's novels.-Biography:...
A Prayer for Blue Delaney (Allen & UnwinAllen & UnwinAllen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...
) - Script: Reg CribbReg Cribb-Background:Reg Cribb graduated from NIDA in 1990 and his first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed in 1999.-Plays:Reg Cribb's plays include The Return , Last Cab to Darwin, Gulpilil, Chatroom, Ruby's Last Dollar, an adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Unaustralia, Mt Ragged, Night of the Sea...
Last Train to Freo (Sue Taylor Media)
20042004 in Australian literatureThe year 2004 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2004 in literature.See also:2003 in Australian literature,2004 in Australia,...
winners
The overall winner was Gail Jones' Sixty LightsSixty Lights
-Awards:*Man Booker Prize, 2004: longlisted*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction, 2004: winner*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Premier's Prize, 2004: winner...
- Fiction: Gail JonesGail JonesGail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
Sixty LightsSixty Lights-Awards:*Man Booker Prize, 2004: longlisted*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction, 2004: winner*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Premier's Prize, 2004: winner...
(Random HouseRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
Australia) - Poetry: Miriam Wei Wei Lo Against Certain Capture (Five Islands Press)
- Non-fiction:
- Greg Craven Conversations with the Constitution (University of New South WalesUniversity of New South WalesThe University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
) - Kate Lance Redbill: From Pearls to Peace - The Life and Times of a Remarkable Lugger (Fremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia....
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- Greg Craven Conversations with the Constitution (University of New South Wales
- Western Australian History: Anthony Barker Behind the Play (West Australian Football CommissionWest Australian Football CommissionThe West Australian Football Commission is the governing body of Australian rules football in the state of Western Australia.It was formed in 1989 as an independent body to the West Australian Football League for governance and development of the game in the state.The WAFC operates Subiaco Oval,...
) - Children's book: Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding A Home for Bilby (Magabala Books)
- Writing for Young Adults: Anthony EatonAnthony EatonAnthony Eaton is an Australian writer of fantasy and young-adult fiction.-Biography:Eaton was born in Papua New Guinea in 1972 and moved to Perth, Western Australia during his childhood. After attending university he worked as a literature and drama teacher at Trinity College, Perth for eight...
Fireshadow (University of QueenslandUniversity of QueenslandThe University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...
) - Script: Jolly Read Yandy (Black Swan Theatre CompanyBlack Swan Theatre CompanyBlack Swan State Theatre Company formally known as The Black Swan Theatre Company is the state theatre company of Western Australia, running an annual subscription season in Perth.-History:...
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20032003 in literatureThe year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales*Atsuko Asano - No...
winners
The overall winner was Reg Cribb's Last Cab to Darwin- Fiction: Brett D'Arcy The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks (Vintage)
- Poetry: John Kinsella Peripheral Light (Fremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia....
) - Non-fiction:
- John DowsonJohn DowsonJohn Dowson M.R.A.S. was a British orientalist. A noted scholar of Hinduism he taught in India for much of his life. His book Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology remains one of the most comprehensive and authoritative works on the topic....
Old Fremantle (University of Western AustraliaUniversity of Western AustraliaThe University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
) - Stephen Kinnane Shadow Lines (Fremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts CentreFremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia....
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- John Dowson
- Children's book: Mark Greenwood The Legend of Lasseter's Reef (Cygnet/University of Western AustraliaUniversity of Western AustraliaThe University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
) - Writing for Young Adults: Colin Bowles Nights in the Sun (Penguin)
- Script: Reg CribbReg Cribb-Background:Reg Cribb graduated from NIDA in 1990 and his first play, Night of the Sea Monkey, was performed in 1999.-Plays:Reg Cribb's plays include The Return , Last Cab to Darwin, Gulpilil, Chatroom, Ruby's Last Dollar, an adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Unaustralia, Mt Ragged, Night of the Sea...
Last Cab to Darwin (Pork Chop Productions/Black Swan Theatre CompanyBlack Swan Theatre CompanyBlack Swan State Theatre Company formally known as The Black Swan Theatre Company is the state theatre company of Western Australia, running an annual subscription season in Perth.-History:...
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20022002 in literatureThe year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...
winners
The overall winner was Richard Bosworth's Mussolini- Fiction: Gail JonesGail JonesGail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
Black Mirror (Picador) - Poetry: Barbara Temperton Going Feral (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Non-fiction:
- Richard Bosworth Mussolini (Edward Arnold)
- WalmajarriWalmajarri languageWalmajarri is a Southwest Pama–Nyungan language spoken in Western Australia.-Names:Names for this language include:...
storytellers, ed. Joyce Hudson, Pat Lowe & Eirlys Richards Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus (Magabala Books)
- Children's book: Mark Greenwood & Frané Lessac The Legend of Moondyne Joe (Cygnet/University of Western Australia)
- Writing for Young Adults: Pat Lowe Feeling the Heat (Penguin)
- Script: Hellie Turner Bench
20012001 in literatureThe year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...
winners
The overall winner was Tim Winton's Dirt MusicDirt Music
Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a Booker prize shortlisted novel from 2001 and winner of the 2002 Miles Franklin Award. The harsh, unyielding climate of Western Australia dominates the actions and events of this thriller.-Plot summary:...
- Fiction: Tim WintonTim WintonTimothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....
Dirt MusicDirt MusicDirt Music by Tim Winton is a Booker prize shortlisted novel from 2001 and winner of the 2002 Miles Franklin Award. The harsh, unyielding climate of Western Australia dominates the actions and events of this thriller.-Plot summary:...
(Picador) - Poetry: Dorothy HewettDorothy HewettDorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership.-Early life:Hewett was born in Perth and was brought up on a sheep and wheat farm...
Halfway up the Mountain (Fremantle Arts Centre) - Non-fiction:
- John Bailey (writer) The White Divers of Broome (Macmillan)
- Jan Gothard Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia (Melbourne University)
- Children's book: Deborah Lisson The Yankee Whaler (Scholastic)
- Writing for Young Adults: Julia Lawrinson Obsession (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Script: Sally Riley & Archie WellerArchie WellerArchie Weller is an Australian award winning writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.Weller was born in Cranbrook, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm called Woonenup in the South west of that state....
Confessions of a Headhunter
20002000 in literatureThe year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...
winners
The overall winner was Michèle Drouart's Into the Wadi- Fiction: Simone LazarooSimone LazarooSimone Lazaroo is an Australian author. Born in Singapore, she migrated with her family to Western Australia as a young child. Her background is Eurasian. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia and teaches Creative Writing at Murdoch University....
The Australian Fiancé (Pan Macmillan) - Poetry: Mark ReidMark ReidMark Reid is a Scottish retired professional footballer who played as a left back. Reid made nearly 400 appearances in the Scottish and English Football Leagues between 1980 and 1993.-Career:...
Parochial (Fremantle Arts Centre) - Non-fiction:
- Michèle Drouart Into the Wadi (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Robert DreweRobert DreweRobert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
The Shark Net: Memories and Murder (Viking)
- Children's book: Kirsty MurrayKirsty MurrayKirsty Murray is an Australian author. Murray writes children's fiction with a focus on Australian history. She is well known for the Children of the Wind series of children's novels.-Biography:...
Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish (Allen & Unwin) - Writing for Young Adults: Anthony EatonAnthony EatonAnthony Eaton is an Australian writer of fantasy and young-adult fiction.-Biography:Eaton was born in Papua New Guinea in 1972 and moved to Perth, Western Australia during his childhood. After attending university he worked as a literature and drama teacher at Trinity College, Perth for eight...
The Darkness (University of Queensland)
19991999 in literatureThe year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...
winners
The overall winner was Kim Scott's Benang: From the Heart- Fiction: Kim ScottKim ScottKim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...
Benang: From the Heart (Fremantle Arts Centre) - Poetry: Tracy RyanTracy RyanTracy Ryan is an Australian poet and novelist. She has also worked as an editor, publisher, translator, and academic.-Life:Tracy Ryan was born in Western Australia, where she grew up as part of a large family...
The Willing Eye (Fremantle Arts Centre) - Historical & Critical Studies: Estelle BlackburnEstelle BlackburnEstelle Blackburn is a journalist who has played a crucial role in the review of some controversial criminal cases in Western Australia.-Early life:...
Broken Lives (Stellar Publishing) - Children's book: Reg Bolton Showtime: Over 75 Ways to Put on a Show (Dorling Kindersley)
- Writing for Young Adults: Glyn ParryGlyn ParryGlyndwr John Robert Parry FRHistS was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire on October 31, 1953. He attended the University of Cambridge, gaining with a PhD in History in 1981. In 1987 he published A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England with Cambridge University...
Scooterboy (Hodder Headline) - Special Award: Victor France, Larry MitchellLarry MitchellLarry Paul Mitchell was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1996.-External links:...
& Alison Wright Abrolhos Islands Conversations (Fremantle Arts Centre)
19981998 in literatureThe year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....
winners
- Overall: Carolyn Polizzotto Pomegranate Season (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Fiction: Pat Jacobs Going Inland (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Poetry: (joint winners)
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- John Kinsella The Hunt (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Fay ZwickyFay ZwickyFay Zwicky is a contemporary Australian poet, short-story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer.-Life:...
The Gatekeeper's Wife (Brandl & Schlesinger)- Historical & Critical Studies: Quentin Beresford & Paul Omaji Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Children's book: Pat Lowe & Jimmy Pike Desert Dog (Magabala Books)
- Writing for Young Adults: Deborah Lisson Red Hugh (Lothian)
- Script Award: Ingle Knight Milk and Honey (Perth Theatre Company)
19971997 in literatureThe year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. , giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a...
winners
- Overall: (joint winners)
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- Robert DreweRobert DreweRobert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
The Drowner (Pan Macmillan Australia) - Gail JonesGail JonesGail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
Fetish Lives (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)- Fiction: (joint winners)
- Robert DreweRobert DreweRobert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
The Drowner (Pan Macmillan Australia) - Gail JonesGail JonesGail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
Fetish Lives (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)- Poetry: Alec Choate The Wheels of Hama: Collected War Poems (Victor Publishing)
- Historical & Critical Studies: Phillip Playford Carpet of Silver: the Wreck of the Zuytdorp (University of WA Press)
- Children & Young Adult's Books: Deborah Lisson A Place of Safety (Mammoth (Reed Books))
- Special Award: Songs of Strength: Sixteen Women Talk About Cancer (Women's Cancer Group (Macmillan))
- Script Award: Dickon Oxenburgh and Andrew RossAndrew RossAndrew Ross is currently a professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A writer for Artforum, The Nation and The Village Voice, he is also the author and/or editor of numerous books...
Merry-Go-Round-In -the Sea (Black Swan Theatre)
- Robert Drewe
19961996 in literatureThe year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."* In the United Kingdom, the first...
winners
- Overall: Banjo Woorunmurra & Howard Pedersen Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance (Magabala Books)
- Fiction: (joint winners)
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- Heather Grace The Lighthouse Spark (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Dave WarnerDave WarnerDavid Robert "Dave" Warner is an Australian rock musician, author and screenwriter.-Biography:Dave Warner was born in Bicton, Western Australia in 1953. He attended Aquinas College and then the University of Western Australia where he graduated with a B.A. , majoring in psychology...
City of Light (Fremantle Arts Centre)- Poetry: Dorothy HewettDorothy HewettDorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership.-Early life:Hewett was born in Perth and was brought up on a sheep and wheat farm...
Collected Poems (Fremantle Arts Centre) - Historical & Critical Studies: Banjo Woorunmurra and Howard Pedersen Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance (Magabala Books)
- Children & Young Adult's Books: Helen BellHelen BellHelen Bell is an English folk-influenced composer and musician playing mainly viola and fiddle.In 2000 she released her first solo album, 'Audierne', on which she was accompanied by guitarist Ed Pritchard....
Idjhil (University of Western Australia Press) - Special Award: Mike Leonard The Kimberley - A journey through Northwest Australia (CIS Cardigan Street Publishers)
- Script Award: Sarah Rossetti Culture Clash (Rosenbaum Whitbread)
- Poetry: Dorothy Hewett