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:

• Red Heaven by Nicolas Rothwell

Non-fiction winner:

• Rogue Forces: An explosive insiders’ account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy

Australian History winner:

• Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell

Poetry winner:

• Human Looking by Andy Jackson

Young Adult winner:

• The Gaps by Leanne Hall

Children’s Fiction winner:

• Mina and the Whole Wide World by Sherryl Clark