NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022

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The  NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 have been announced. Of particular interest:

Book of the Year & Multicultural NSW Award
Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System by Safdar Ahmed (Twelve Panels Press)

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch (University of Queensland Press)

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
My Brother Ben by Peter Carnavas (University of Queensland Press)

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature
The Gaps by Leanne Hall (Text Publishing)

Indigenous Writers’ Prize
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss (Simon & Schuster Australia)