'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.' (https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards)
'The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. The awards recognise literature's importance to our national identity, community and economy.'
The awards were established with two categories: Fiction and Non-Fiction. In 2010, two new prizes were added to recognise literature for younger reading audiences - Children's Fiction and Young Adult's Fiction.
Further changes were made to the awards in 2011. The overall prize money for each category remained at $100,000, but instead of the full amount being given to the winner, $80,000 was presented to the author of the winning book while a maximum of four shortlisted authors each received $5,000. From 2011, an annual timetable for the awards was established. Shortlists are announced in May and the winners revealed in July.
Source: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts website, http://www.arts.gov.au/
Sighted: 14/04/2008, 18/01/2011
'André Dao’s debut novel Anam (Penguin Random House) has just won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, worth A$80,000. This follows its shortlisting for this year’s Miles Franklin Award.'
'Judges praise book as ‘profoundly relevant’, with Daniel Browning, Amy Crutchfield and Will Kostakis also winning in their categories'
'Jessica Au’s precise, poetic novella, Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo), an elegant meditation on its unnamed narrator’s trip to Japan with her ageing mother, continues its sweep of major literary awards.'
