NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2013
Sutherland Shire Libraries
Thursday, May 23, 2013
The winners of the NSW Premier's Literary award were announced at The Sydney Writers Festival on 19th May. Congratulations to all the winners. The People's Choice Award
- Animal People by Charlotte Wood
Book of the year
- Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby-Eckermann
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction – prize money worth $40,000
Winner: Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany (Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction)
Winner: Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany (Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction)
- The Voyage by Murray Bail
- The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
- Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
- Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
- Animal People by Charlotte Wood
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction ($40,000 prize money)
Winner: The Office : a Hard Working History by Gideon Haigh
Winner: The Office : a Hard Working History by Gideon Haigh
- Exile: the Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz by Roger Averill
- Ben Jonson : a Life by Ian Donaldson
- Dark Night : Walking with McCahon by Martin Edmond
- The Biggest Estate on Earth : How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage
- Double Entry : How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World – and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet by Jane Gleeson-White
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000 prize money)
Winner: A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty
- Into That Forest by Louis Nowra
- Unforgotten by Tohby Riddle
- The Ink Bridge by Neil Grant
- Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
- Three Summers by Judith Clarke
Winner: The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon by Aaron Blabey
- Brotherband 1 : The Outcasts by John Flanagan
- Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend by Steven Herrick
- A Bear and a Tree by Stephen Michael King
- The Tender Moments of Saffron Silk by Glenda Millard
- Dragonkeeper Book 4 : Blood Brothers by Carole Wilkinson
View the complete NSW Premiers Literary Awards Winners and Shortlist.