Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

The 2018 winners were announced on 26 July 2019.[3]

• Western Australian Writer's Fellowship: A.J. Betts
• Premier's Prize for Writing for Children: The Hole Story by Kelly Canby
• Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer: The Sky Runs Right Through Us by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
• Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors: Mother Speaks by Kirli Saunders

The 2016 winners were announced on 3 October 2016. The Premier's Prize went to This House of Grief by Helen Garner.[4]

• Fiction: The Golden Age by Joan London
• Non-fiction: This House of Grief by Helen Garner
• Children's Books: The Duck and the Darklings by Glenda Millard, illustrated by Stephen Michael King
• Poetry: The Guardians by Lucy Dougan
• Western Australian History: Running Out? Water in WA by Ruth A. Morgan
• Young Adult: The Protected by Claire Zorn
• Western Australian Emerging Writers Award: Lost and Found by Brooke Davis
• Scripts: Dust by Suzie Miller
• Digital Narrative: Timelord Dreaming by David P. Reiter
• People's Choice Award: Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson

The 2014 winners were announced on 22 September 2014.[5] The overall winner was Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

• Fiction: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
• People's Choice: Tim Winton, Eyrie
• Poetry: Paul Hetherington, Six Different Windows
• Non-fiction: Kristina Olsson, Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
• Western Australian History: Margaret Simons, Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man
• Children's book:(tie) Dianne Wolfer & Brian Simmonds, Light Horse Boy and Jan Ormerod & Andrew Joyner, The Swap
• Writing for Young Adults: Alyssa Brugman, Alex as Well
• Script: Van Badham, The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars
• Digital Narrative: Christy Dena, AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS
• Emerging Writer's Award: Yvette Walker, Letters to the End of Love

The 2012 winners were announced on 16 September 2013.[6] The overall winner was Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel.

• Fiction: Michelle de Kretser, Questions of Travel
• People's Choice: Deborah Forster, The Meaning of Grace
• Poetry: Robert Gray, Cumulus
• Non-fiction: Roger Averill, Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz
• Western Australian History: Aboriginal Studies Press, Kurlumarniny: We come from the Desert
• Children's book:(tie) Stephen Herrick, Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend & Peter Macinnis, Australian Backyard Naturalist
• Writing for Young Adults: Margo Lanagan, Sea Hearts
• Script: Ingle Knight, The Fremantle Candidate
• Digital Narrative: David Reiter, My Planets Reunion Memoir

The 2011 winners were announced on 17 September 2012.[7] The overall winner was Fiona Skyring's Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (ISBN 978-1921401633)

• Fiction: Anna Funder, All That I Am
• People's Choice: Anna Funder, All That I Am
• Poetry: Tracy Ryan, The Argument
• Non-fiction: Alice Pung, Her Father's Daughter
• Western Australian History: Fiona Skyring, Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
• Children's book: Michelle Gillespie & Sonia Martinez, Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck
• Writing for Young Adults: Penni Russon, Only Ever Always
• Script: Tim Winton & Ellen Fontana, Cloudstreet: The Screenplay
• Digital Narrative: Max Barry, Machine Man

The 2010 winners were announced on 30 September 2011.[8] The overall winner was Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance

• Fiction: Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance
• People's Choice: Lisa Lang, Utopian Man
• Poetry: Mark Tredinnick, Fire Diary
• Non-fiction: Jim Davidson, The Historian: W K Hancock
• Western Australian History: Susanna Iuliano, Vite Italiane, Italian Lives in Western Australia
• Children's book: Sally Murphy & Rhian Nest James, Toppling
• Writing for Young Adults: Scot Gardner, Happy as Larry and James Roy, Anonymity Jones
• Script: Tommy Murphy, Gwen in Purgatory
• Digital Narrative: Robin Craig Clark, The Garden

The 2008 & 2009 winners were announced September 2010.[9] The overall winner was Shirley Barrett's South Solitary.

• Fiction:
  • Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
  • J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
• Poetry: Kate Middleton, Fire Season
• Non-fiction: Iain McCalman, Darwin's Armada
• Western Australian History: Penelope Hetherington, Paupers, Poor Relief & Poor Houses
• Children's book: Margaret Wild & Freya Blackwood, Harry & Hopper
• Writing for Young Adults: Justine Larbalestier, Liar
• Script: Shirley Barrett, South Solitary

The 2008 & 2009 winners were announced September 2010.[9] The overall winner was Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man.

• Fiction: Richard Flanagan, Wanting
• Poetry: Bronwyn Lea, The Other Way Out
• Non-fiction: Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man
• Western Australian History: Brian Dibble, Doing Life: A biography of Elizabeth Jolley
• Children's book: Bob Graham, How to Heal a Broken Wing
• Writing for Young Adults: Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia
• Script: Damien Millar, The Modern International Dead

The winners were announced in 2008.[10] The overall winner was Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen's Ziba Came on a Boat.

• Fiction: Stephen Scourfield, Other Country (Allen & Unwin)
• Poetry: Hal Colebatch, The Light River (Connor Court Publishing)
• History Section: Lucy Taksa, Bobbie Oliver and Patrick Bertola, The History of the Westrail Midland Railway Workshops (University of Western Australia Press)
• Non-fiction: Antonio Buti, Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience (University of Western Australia Press)
• Western Australian History: Ruth Marchant James, Cottesloe: A Town of Distinction (Town of Cottesloe)
• Children's book: Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen, Ziba Came on a Boat (Viking Books)
• Writing for Young Adults: Ken Spillman, Love is a UFO (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Script: Elissa Down and Jimmy the Exploder, The Black Balloon (Black Balloon Film Productions)

The overall winner was Shaun Tan's The Arrival.

• Fiction: Simone Lazaroo, The Travel Writer (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Poetry: Dennis Haskell, All the Time in the World (Salt Publishing)
• Non-fiction:
  • Quentin Beresford, Rob Riley: an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice (Aboriginal Studies Press)
  • Peter Edwards, Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins (Allen & Unwin)
• Western Australian History: Bobbie Oliver and Patrick Bertola, The Workshops: A History of the Midland Government Railway Workshops (University of Western Australia Press)
• Children's book: Shaun Tan, The Arrival (Hachette Livre Australia)
• Writing for Young Adults: Kate McCaffrey Destroying Avalon (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Script: Hellie Turner, Sardines (Tropic Sun Theatre Queensland)

The overall winner was Davenport etc.. Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert

• Fiction: Carrie Tiffany, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Picador)
• Poetry: Rod Moran, The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005 (Salt Publishing)
• Non-fiction:
  • Richard Bosworth, Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 (Allen Lane/Penguin)
  • Philippa Nikulinsky and Stephen D Hopper, Soul of the Desert (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Western Australian History: Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson and Yuwali, Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert (Aboriginal Studies Press)
• Children's book: Wendy Binks, Where's Stripey? (Stunned Emu Press)
• Writing for Young Adults: Kirsty Murray, A Prayer for Blue Delaney (Allen & Unwin)
• Script: Reg Cribb, Last Train to Freo (Sue Taylor Media)

The overall winner was Gail Jones' Sixty Lights

• Fiction: Gail Jones, Sixty Lights (Random House Australia)
• Poetry: Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Against Certain Capture (Five Islands Press)
• Non-fiction:
  • Greg Craven, Conversations with the Constitution (University of New South Wales)
  • Kate Lance, Redbill: From Pearls to Peace - The Life and Times of a Remarkable Lugger (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Western Australian History: Anthony Barker, Behind the Play (West Australian Football Commission)
• Children's book: Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding, A Home for Bilby (Magabala Books)
• Writing for Young Adults: Anthony Eaton, Fireshadow (University of Queensland)
• Script: Jolly Read, Yandy (Black Swan Theatre Company)

The overall winner was Reg Cribb's Last Cab to Darwin

• Fiction: Brett D'Arcy The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks (Vintage)
• Poetry: John Kinsella Peripheral Light (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Non-fiction:
  • John Dowson Old Fremantle (University of Western Australia)
  • Stephen Kinnane Shadow Lines (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Children's book: Mark Greenwood The Legend of Lasseter's Reef (Cygnet/University of Western Australia)
• Writing for Young Adults: Colin Bowles Nights in the Sun (Penguin)
• Script: Reg Cribb Last Cab to Darwin (Pork Chop Productions/Black Swan Theatre Company)

The overall winner was Richard Bosworth's Mussolini

• Fiction: Gail Jones Black Mirror (Picador)
• Poetry: Barbara Temperton Going Feral (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Non-fiction:
  • Richard Bosworth Mussolini (Edward Arnold)
  • Walmajarri storytellers, ed. Joyce Hudson, Pat Lowe & Eirlys Richards Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus (Magabala Books)
• Children's book: Mark Greenwood & Frané Lessac The Legend of Moondyne Joe (Cygnet/University of Western Australia)
• Writing for Young Adults: Pat Lowe Feeling the Heat (Penguin)
• Script: Hellie Turner Bench

The overall winner was Tim Winton's Dirt Music

• Fiction: Tim Winton Dirt Music (Picador)
• Poetry: Dorothy Hewett Halfway up the Mountain (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Non-fiction:
  • John Bailey (writer) The White Divers of Broome (Macmillan)
  • Jan Gothard Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia (Melbourne University)
• Children's book: Deborah Lisson The Yankee Whaler (Scholastic)
• Writing for Young Adults: Julia Lawrinson Obsession (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Script: Sally Riley & Archie Weller Confessions of a Headhunter

The overall winner was Michèle Drouart's Into the Wadi

• Fiction: Simone Lazaroo The Australian Fiancé (Pan Macmillan)
• Poetry: Mark Reid Parochial (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Non-fiction:
  • Michèle Drouart Into the Wadi (Fremantle Arts Centre)
  • Robert Drewe The Shark Net: Memories and Murder (Viking)
• Children's book: Kirsty Murray Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish (Allen & Unwin)
• Writing for Young Adults: Anthony Eaton The Darkness (University of Queensland)

The overall winner was Kim Scott's Benang: From the Heart

• Fiction: Kim Scott Benang: From the Heart (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Poetry: Tracy Ryan The Willing Eye (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Historical & Critical Studies: Estelle Blackburn Broken Lives (Stellar Publishing)
• Children's book: Reg Bolton Showtime: Over 75 Ways to Put on a Show (Dorling Kindersley)
• Writing for Young Adults: Glyn Parry Scooterboy (Hodder Headline)
• Special Award: Victor France, Larry Mitchell & Alison Wright Abrolhos Islands Conversations (Fremantle Arts Centre)

• Overall: Carolyn Polizzotto Pomegranate Season (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Fiction: Pat Jacobs Going Inland (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Poetry: (joint winners)

John Kinsella The Hunt (Fremantle Arts Centre)

Fay Zwicky The Gatekeeper's Wife (Brandl & Schlesinger)

• Historical & Critical Studies: Quentin Beresford & Paul Omaji Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Children's book: Pat Lowe & Jimmy Pike Desert Dog (Magabala Books)
• Writing for Young Adults: Deborah Lisson Red Hugh (Lothian)
• Script Award: Ingle Knight Milk and Honey (Perth Theatre Company)

• Overall: (joint winners)

Robert Drewe The Drowner (Pan Macmillan Australia)

Gail Jones Fetish Lives (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)

• Fiction: (joint winners)

Robert Drewe The Drowner (Pan Macmillan Australia)

Gail Jones Fetish Lives (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)

• Poetry: Alec Choate The Wheels of Hama: Collected War Poems (Victor Publishing)
• Historical & Critical Studies: Phillip Playford Carpet of Silver: the Wreck of the Zuytdorp (University of WA Press)
• Children & Young Adult's Books: Deborah Lisson A Place of Safety (Mammoth (Reed Books))
• Special Award: Songs of Strength: Sixteen Women Talk About Cancer (Women's Cancer Group (Macmillan))
• Script Award: Dickon Oxenburgh and Andrew Ross Merry-Go-Round-In -the Sea (Black Swan Theatre)

• Overall: Banjo Woorunmurra & Howard Pedersen Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance (Magabala Books)
• Fiction: (joint winners)

Heather Grace The Lighthouse Spark (Fremantle Arts Centre)

Dave Warner City of Light (Fremantle Arts Centre)

• Poetry: Dorothy Hewett Collected Poems (Fremantle Arts Centre)
• Historical & Critical Studies: Banjo Woorunmurra and Howard Pedersen Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance (Magabala Books)
• Children & Young Adult's Books: Helen Bell Idjhil (University of Western Australia Press)
• Special Award: Mike Leonard The Kimberley - A journey through Northwest Australia (CIS Cardigan Street Publishers)
• Script Award: Sarah Rossetti Culture Clash (Rosenbaum Whitbread)

• Premier's Prize: Radical Take-offs by Glyn Parry (Allen & Unwin)
• Fiction: The World Waiting to be Made by Simone Lazaroo (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Poetry: Sandstone by Andrew Taylor (University of Queensland Press)
• Historical & Critical Studies: Searching for the Snowy by George Seddon (Allen & Unwin)
• Children's & Young Adult's Books: Radical Take-offs by Glyn Parry (Allen & Unwin)
• Special Award: Plants of the Perth Coast and Islands by Elizabeth Rippey and Barbara Rowland (University of WA Press)
• Script: Whispering Demons by Heather Nimmo (Perth Theatre Company)

• Premier's Prize: Peninsula - Dorothy Hewett (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Fiction: Letter to Constantine - Joan London (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Poetry: Peninsula - Dorothy Hewett (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Historical & Critical Studies: Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia - David Horton (Aboriginal Studies Press)
• Children's Books: Rosa's Famous Elbow - Mike Lefroy & Peter Kendall (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Special Award: Summer Shorts - Peter Holland (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
• Script: Meekatharra - Lois Achimovich (Black Swan Theatre Company)

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