The 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners have been announced with three categories naming joint winners, and two of the winning authors donating their prize money to key organisations working toward change in Australia

Richard Flanagan (this year’s Booker Prize winner) was named a joint winner for the Fiction Award and gave his full $40,000 prize money to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. In addition, Bob Graham was named the winner of the Children’s Fiction Award and donated $10,000 of his winnings to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Here is the full list of winners for each award category:

Fiction (joint winners)

• A World of Other People by Steven Carrol
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Non-Fiction (joint winners)

• Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey
• Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca

Prize for Australian History (joint winners)

• Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont
• Australia’s Secret War: How unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II by Hal G.P. Colebatch

Poetry

• Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call by Melinda Smith

Young Adult Fiction

• The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna

Children’s Fiction

• Silver Buttons by Bob Graham

Established in 2008, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards are Australia’s richest literary prize with a total prize pool of $600,000. Read more about the winning titles and the Award here.