History
This category of the SWW Book Awards was introduced in 2016.
No award given in 2020. In 2022, children's and young adult were awarded as a single category (all winners were children's fiction).
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2018
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Promising Azra
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
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2016
9508554
2016
single work
novel
young adult
'Azra's dreams of finishing high school in Sydney and going to university are threatened by her uncle's plans to marry her off to an older cousin she has never met - will she have to choose between her family and her happiness?
'Azra is sixteen, smart and knows how to get what she wants. She thinks. When she wins a place in a national science competition, she thinks her biggest problem is getting her parents' permission to go. But she doesn't know they're busy arranging her marriage to an older cousin she's never met. In Pakistan. In just three months' time.
'Azra always thought she'd finish high school with her friends and then go on to study science, but now her dreams of university are suddenly overshadowed. Can she find a way to do what she wants, while keeping her parents happy?
'Or does being a good daughter mean sacrificing her freedom?' (Publication summary)
