The winners of the 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced last night at the State Library of NSW.

Carrie Tiffany won the prestigious New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction for her novel Mateship With Birds (which also recently won the Stella Prize!)

The Premier’s Award for New Writing was presented to Michael Sala for his autobiographical novel, The Last Thread (which recently won the regional Commonwealth Book Prize!)

See below for a full list of winners:

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
The Last Thread, Michael Sala

Douglas Stewart Prize for Non‐Fiction
The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Ruby Moonlight, Ali Cobby‐Eckermann

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon, Aaron Blabey

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature
A Corner of White, Jaclyn Moriarty

Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
The Damned, Reg Cribb

Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
Dead Europe, Louise Fox

Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural NSW Award
Don’t Go Back to Where You Came From, Tim Soutphommasane

NSW Premier’s Translation Prize
Peter Boyle

Book of the Year
Ruby Moonlight, Ali Cobby‐Eckermann

People’s Choice
Animal People, Charlotte Wood

Special Award
David Ireland AM