Winners were announced for the 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, which "celebrate Australian literary excellence and recognize our talented authors, illustrators and historians." The honorees were named by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Communications and the Arts Mitch Fifield. This year's Prime Minister's Literary Award winners are:
Fiction: Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
Australian history: John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific, and, Reinventing Australia, Volume 1 by John Edwards
YA literature: This Is My Song by Richard Yaxley
Children's literature: Pea Pod Lullaby by Glenda Millard, illustrated by Stephen Michael King
Poetry: Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro
Nonfiction: Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance by Richard McGregor