NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced. Of special interest:
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)
- Paradise Sands: A Story of Enchantment by Levi Pinfold (Walker Books Australia) Winner
- Leaf-light by Trace Balla (Allen & Unwin Children’s Publishing) shortlisted
- Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg (Allen & Unwin Children’s Publishing) shortlisted
- The Raven’s Song by Zana Fraillon and Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin Children’s Publishing) shortlisted
- Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly and illustrated by Blak Douglas (Thames & Hudson Australia)shortlisted
- Australia: Country of Colour by Jess Racklyeft (Affirm Press) shortlisted
Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000)
- The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox (Pan Macmillan Australia) Winner
- Royals by Tegan Bennett Daylight (Simon & Schuster Australia) shortlisted
- Grace Notes by Karen Comer (Hachette Australia) shortlisted
- We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis (Allen & Unwin Children’s Publishing) shortlisted
- We Didn’t Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough (Allen & Unwin Children’s Publishing) shortlisted
- Selfie by Allayne L. Webster (Text Publishing) shortlisted