This year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards,
which recognize "the contribution of Australian literature to the
nation's cultural and intellectual life [and] literature's importance to
our national identity, community and economy," went to:
Children's fiction: Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood
YA fiction: Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon
Fiction: Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
Nonfiction: The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
Children's fiction: Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood
YA fiction: Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon
Fiction: Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
Nonfiction: The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens