The 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Award winners were announced last night, with poet Ellen Van Neerven scooping up three prizes for their poetry collection Throat. Van Neerven received the $10,000 book of the year award, along with the $30,000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the $20,000 Multicultural NSW Award.
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are an initiative of the NSW Government, run by the State Library in association with Create NSW and with the support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney.
Read on for the winners!
Book of the Year ($10,000): Throat by Ellen van Neerven (University of Queensland Press)
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000): A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville (Text Publishing)
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5,000): Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne (Text Publishing)
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction ($40,000): The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar (Yale University Press)
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000): Throat by Ellen van Neerven (UQP)
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000): The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor (Affirm Press)
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000): The End of the World is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell (Text Publishing)
Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000): Milk by Dylan Van Den Berg (The Street Theatre)
Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000): FREEMAN by Laurence Billiet (General Strike & Matchbox Pictures)
Multicultural NSW Award ($20,000): Throat by Ellen van Neerven (UQP)
NSW Translation Prize ($30,000) — biennial award: joint winners Autumn Manuscripts by Tasos Leivaditis, translated by N. N. Trakakis (Smokestack Books) and Imminence by Mariana Dimópulos, translated by Alice Whitmore (Giramondo Publishing)
Special Award ($10,000): Melina Marchetta
People’s Choice Award: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Affirm Press)
Congratulations to all of the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Award winners!
Find out more about the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards here
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