The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established by Premier Neville Wran in 1979 to honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers.
| WINNER: Christina Stead Prize for fiction 2010 |
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Book Title: Summertime
Author/Editor: J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9781741669022
Publisher: Random House
Description: A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father.
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| WINNER: Douglas Stewart Prize for nonfiction 2010 & Book of the Year 2010 |
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Book Title: Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit... and the rise of Hamas
Author/Editor: Paul McGeough
ISBN: 9781741756005
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Description: Begins with the most bizarre assassination attempts in the last quater century and follows its participats as they grapple with the unforseen outcome of this drama. In a headlong narrative the author uses unprecedented interviews with Khalid Mishal himself and key players to tell the definitive story of the rise of Hamas.
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| WINNER: Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry 2010 |
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Book Title: The sonnet according to 'm'
Author/Editor: Jordie Albiston
ISBN: 9780980526936
Publisher: John Leonard Press
Description: The letter 'm' is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-grandmother and the poet.
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| WINNER: Ethel Turner Prize for young people's literature 2010 |
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Book Title: When the hipchicks when to war
Author/Editor: Pamela Rushby
ISBN: 9780734410917
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Description: Going to a war is just about the last thing on sixteen-year-old Kathy's mind. It's the 1960s, there are miniskirts to wear, Beatles and Stones music to listen to and discos to go to. There's the Vietnam War of course, but that's way in the background.
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| WINNER: Patricia Wrightson Prize for children's literature 2010 |
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Book Title: Krakatoa Lighthouse
Author/Editor: Allan Baillie
ISBN: 9780143303596
Publisher: Penguin
Description: The Javanese seaside fishing village of Anjer is warm and fragrant. A constant flow of traders and other visitors from all over the world keeps it prosperous and vibrant. So what could be better than being the twelve-year old son of Anjer's Javanese lighthouse keeper?
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| WINNER: Community Relations Commission Award 2010 |
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Book Title: Leave to remain: a memoir
Author/Editor: Abbas El-Zein
ISBN: 9780702236921
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Description: Abbas El-Zein tells his story of growing up in a middle-class family in civil-war Beirut. He traces the genesis of a contemporary Middle-Eastern identity - his own - under the influence of culture, religion, history and places far removed from where he grew up. Abbas El-Zien migrated to Australia in 1996.
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| WINNER: Glenda Adams Award for New Writing for fiction 2010 |
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Book Title: Document Z
Author/Editor: Andrew Croome
ISBN: 9781741757439
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Description: A masterful, taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue, telling the story of the Petrov defection during the Cold War of the 1950s.
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| WINNER: Script Writing Award 2010 |
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Book Title: Bright Star
Author/Editor: Jane Campion
Publisher: Jan Chapman Films
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| WINNER: NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship 2010 |
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Book Title: Networked language: culture and history in Australian poetry
Author/Editor: Philip Mead
ISBN: 9780754661955
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Description: From the effects of Kenneth Slessor's work in film journalism, to the hybrid forms of contemporary Australian language, this study presents new ways of understanding Australian poetry, drawing on an equal fascination with the artifice of poetry and the complexity of culture.
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| WINNER: Script Writing 2010 |
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Book Title: Fairweather Man
Author/Editor: Aviva Ziegler
Publisher: Roadshow Home Entertainment
Description: An intimate portrait of the life and work of Australia's greatest abstract painter Ian Fairweather.
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| WINNER: People's Choice Award 2010 |
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Book Title: The World Beneath
Author/Editor: Cate Kennedy
ISBN: 9781921640551
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Description: Once Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle-age - although they've gone about it in very different ways.
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| WINNER: Special Award 2010 |
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Book Title: The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
Author/Editor: Nicholas Jose
ISBN: 9781741754391
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Description: Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology.
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