The winners for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced! The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.

Fiction winner:
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

Non-fiction winner:
The Stranger Artist by Quentin Sprague

Australian History winner:
People of the River by Grace Karskens

Poetry winner:
The Strangest Place by Stephen Edgar

Young Adult winner:
Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore

Children’s Fiction co-winners:
Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai
How to Make a Bird by Meg McKinlay & Matt Ottley