Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards
Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards
Location	Perth, Western Australia
Country	Australia
First awarded	1982; 42 years ago
Website	WA Premier's Book Award

The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an annual book award provided by the Government of Western Australia, and managed by the State Library of Western Australia.

History and format

Annual literary awards were inaugurated by the Western Australian Government in 1982 to honour and celebrate the literary achievements of Western Australian writers. Until 1990 the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards were called the WA Week Literary Awards.^[1] The title of the award refers to the year of publication, rather than the year in which the awards were announced e.g.the 2011 awards for works published that year were announced in 2012. This changed to the award year in 2023.

The categories included poetry, non-fiction, fiction, Western Australian history, children's book, YA fiction, scripts and digital narrative. There was also a Premier's Prize, which was awarded to an overall winner.

The Barnett government downgraded the awards from an annual event to a biennial one much to the disappointment of the WA arts sector.^[2]^[3]

The McGowan government reinstated the annual award format in 2018. There were four categories – the Western Australian Writer's Fellowship (valued at $60,000), the Premier's Prize for Writing for Children ($15,000), the Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) and the Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors ($15,000 and publishing contract with Magabala Books).^[4]^[5] A fifth award was added in 2023, the Premier's Prize for Book of the Year ($15,000).^[6]

There have been calls for the awards to be restored to their previous levels as there are currently no categories for established poets and non-fiction writers.^[7]

Honorees

1990s

Year	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
1994	Children's Books	Mike Lefroy and Peter Kendall	Rosa's Famous Elbow	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Fiction	Joan London	Letter to Constantine	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Historical & Critical Studies	David Horton	Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia	Aboriginal Studies Press
	Poetry	Dorothy Hewett	Peninsula	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Premier's Prize	Dorothy Hewett	Peninsula	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Script	Lois Achimovich	Meekatharra	Black Swan Theatre Company
	Special Award	Peter Holland	Summer Shorts	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
1995	Children's & Young Adult's Books	Glyn Parry	Radical Take-offs	Allen & Unwin
	Fiction	Simone Lazaroo	The World Waiting to be Made	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Historical & Critical Studies	George Seddon	Searching for the Snowy	Allen & Unwin
	Poetry	Andrew Taylor	Sandstone	University of Queensland Press
	Premier's Prize	Glyn Parry	Radical Take-offs	Allen & Unwin
	Script	Heather Nimmo	Whispering Demons	Perth Theatre Company
	Special Award	Elizabeth Rippey and Barbara Rowland	Plants of the Perth Coast and Islands	University of Western Australia Press
1996	Overall	Banjo Woorunmurra and Howard Pedersen	Resistance: Jandamarra and the Bunuba	Magabala Books
	Children & Young Adult's Books	Helen Bell	Idjhil	University of Western Australia Press
	Fiction	Heather Grace	The Lighthouse Spark	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Fiction	Dave Warner	City of Light	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Historical & Critical Studies	Banjo Woorunmurra and Howard Pedersen	Resistance: Jandamarra and the Bunuba	Magabala Books
	Poetry	Dorothy Hewett	Collected Poems	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Script Award	Sarah Rossetti	Culture Clash	Rosenbaum Whitbread
	Special Award	Mike Leonard	The Kimberley: A journey through Northwest Australia	CIS Cardigan Street Publishers
1997	Overall	Gail Jones	Fetish Lives	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Overall	Robert Drewe	The Drowner	Pan Macmillan Australia
	Children & Young Adult's Books	Deborah Lisson	A Place of Safety	Mammoth ( Reed Books )
	Fiction	Gail Jones	Fetish Lives	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Fiction	Robert Drewe	The Drowner	Pan Macmillan Australia
	Historical & Critical Studies	Phillip Playford	Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the Zuytdorp	University of Western Australia Press
	Poetry	Alec Choate	The Wheels of Hama: Collected War Poems	Victor Publishing
	Script Award	Dickon Oxenburgh and Andrew Ross	Merry-Go-Round-In -the Sea	Black Swan Theatre
	Special Award		Songs of Strength: Sixteen Women Talk About Cancer	Women's Cancer Group (Macmillan)
1998	Overall	Carolyn Polizzotto	Pomegranate Season	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Children's book	Pat Lowe and Jimmy Pike	Desert Dog	Magabala Books
	Fiction	Pat Jacobs	Going Inland	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Historical & Critical Studies	Quentin Beresford and Paul Omaji	Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Poetry	Fay Zwicky	The Gatekeeper's Wife	Brandl & Schlesinger
	Poetry	John Kinsella	The Hunt	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Script Award	Ingle Knight	Milk and Honey	Perth Theatre Company
	Writing for Young Adults	Deborah Lisson	Red Hugh	Lothian
1999	Children's book	Reg Bolton	Showtime: Over 75 Ways to Put on a Show	Dorling Kindersley
	Fiction	Kim Scott	Benang: From the Heart	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Fiction	Kim Scott	Benang: From the Heart	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Historical & Critical Studies	Estelle Blackburn	Broken Lives	Stellar Publishing
	Poetry	Tracy Ryan	The Willing Eye	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Special Award	Victor France, Larry Mitchell, and Alison Wright	Abrolhos Islands Conversations	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
	Writing for Young Adults	Glyn Parry	Scooterboy	Hodder Headline

2000s

Year	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
2000	Overall	Michèle Drouart	Into the Wadi	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Children's book	Kirsty Murray	Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish	Allen & Unwin
	Fiction	Simone Lazaroo	The Australian Fiancé	Pan Macmillan
	Non-fiction	Robert Drewe	The Shark Net: Memories and Murder	Viking
	Non-fiction	Michèle Drouart	Into the Wadi	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Poetry	Mark Reid	Parochial	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Writing for Young Adults	Anthony Eaton	The Darkness	University of Queensland Press
2001	Overall	Tim Winton	Dirt Music	Picador
	Children's book	Deborah Lisson	The Yankee Whaler	Scholastic
	Fiction	Tim Winton	Dirt Music	Picador
	Non-fiction	Jan Gothard	Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia	Melbourne University Publishing
	Non-fiction	John Bailey	The White Divers of Broome	Macmillan
	Poetry	Dorothy Hewett	Halfway up the Mountain	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Script	Sally Riley and Archie Weller	Confessions of a Headhunter
	Writing for Young Adults	Julia Lawrinson	Obsession	Fremantle Arts Centre
2002	Overall	Richard Bosworth	Mussolini	Edward Arnold
	Children's book	Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac	The Legend of Moondyne Joe	Cygnet/ University of Western Australia
	Fiction	Gail Jones	Black Mirror	Picador
	Non-fiction	Richard Bosworth	Mussolini	Edward Arnold
	Non-fiction	Walmajarri storytellers, ed. Joyce Hudson, Pat Lowe, and Eirlys Richards	Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus	Magabala Books
	Poetry	Barbara Temperton	Going Feral	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Script	Hellie Turner	Bench
	Writing for Young Adults	Pat Lowe	Feeling the Heat	Penguin
2003	Overall	Reg Cribb	Last Cab to Darwin	Pork Chop Productions/ Black Swan Theatre Company
	Children's book	Mark Greenwood	The Legend of Lasseter's Reef	Cygnet/ University of Western Australia
	Fiction	Brett D'Arcy	The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks	Vintage
	Non-fiction	John Dowson	Old Fremantle	University of Western Australia Press
	Non-fiction	Stephen Kinnane	Shadow Lines	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Poetry	John Kinsella	Peripheral Light	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Script	Reg Cribb	Last Cab to Darwin	Pork Chop Productions/ Black Swan Theatre Company
	Writing for Young Adults	Colin Bowles	Nights in the Sun	Penguin
2004	Overall	Gail Jones	Sixty Lights
	Children's book	Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding	A Home for Bilby	Magabala Books
	Fiction	Gail Jones	Sixty Lights	Random House Australia
	Non-fiction	Greg Craven	Conversations with the Constitution	University of New South Wales
	Non-fiction	Kate Lance	Redbill: From Pearls to Peace: The Life and Times of a Remarkable Lugger	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Poetry	Miriam Wei Wei Lo	Against Certain Capture	Five Islands Press
	Script	Jolly Read	Yandy	Black Swan Theatre Company
	Western Australian History	Anthony Barker	Behind the Play	West Australian Football Commission
	Writing for Young Adults	Anthony Eaton	Fireshadow	University of Queensland
2005	Overall	Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson, and Yuwali	Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert
	Children's book	Wendy Binks	Where's Stripey?	Stunned Emu Press
	Fiction	Carrie Tiffany	Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living	Picador
	Non-fiction	Philippa Nikulinsky and Stephen D Hopper	Soul of the Desert	Fremantle Arts Centre
	Non-fiction	Richard Bosworth	Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945	Allen Lane/Penguin
	Poetry	Rod Moran	The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005	Salt Publishing
	Script	Reg Cribb	Last Train to Freo	Sue Taylor Media
	Western Australian History	Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson, and Yuwali	Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert	Aboriginal Studies Press
	Writing for Young Adults	Kirsty Murray	A Prayer for Blue Delaney	Allen & Unwin
2006	Overall	Shaun Tan	The Arrival
	Children's book	Shaun Tan	The Arrival	Hachette Livre Australia
	Fiction	Simone Lazaroo	The Travel Writer	Pan Macmillan Australia
	Non-fiction	Quentin Beresford	Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice	Aboriginal Studies Press
	Nonfiction	Peter Edwards	Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins	Allen & Unwin
	Poetry	Dennis Haskell	All the Time in the World	Salt Publishing
	Script	Hellie Turner	Sardines	Tropic Sun Theatre Queensland
	Western Australian History	Bobbie Oliver	The Workshops: A History of the Midland Government Railway Workshops	University of Western Australia Press
	Writing for Young Adults	Kate McCaffrey	Destroying Avalon	Fremantle Arts Centre Press
2007^[8]	Overall	Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen	Ziba Came on a Boat
	Children's book	Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen	Ziba Came on a Boat	Viking Press
	Fiction	Stephen Scourfield	Other Country	Allen & Unwin
	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
	Poetry	Hal Colebatch	The Light River	Connor Court Publishing
	Script	Jimmy the Exploder	The Black Balloon	Black Balloon Film Productions
	Western Australian History	Ruth Marchant James	Cottesloe: A Town of Distinction	Town of Cottesloe
	Writing for Young Adults	Ken Spillman	Love is a UFO	Pan Macmillan Australia
2008^[9]	Overall	Chloe Hooper	The Tall Man
	Children's book	Bob Graham	How to Heal a Broken Wing
	Fiction	Richard Flanagan	Wanting
	Non-fiction	Chloe Hooper	The Tall Man
	Poetry	Bronwyn Lea	The Other Way Out
	Script	Damien Millar	The Modern International Dead
	Western Australian History	Brian Dibble	Doing Life: A biography of Elizabeth Jolley
	Writing for Young Adults	Shaun Tan	Tales from Outer Suburbia
2009^[9]	Overall	Shirley Barrett	South Solitary
	Children's book	Margaret Wild and Freya Blackwood	Harry & Hopper
	Fiction	Craig Silvey	Jasper Jones
	Fiction	J. M. Coetzee	Summertime
	Non-fiction	Iain McCalman	Darwin's Armada
	Poetry	Kate Middleton	Fire Season
	Script	Shirley Barrett	South Solitary
	Western Australian History	Penelope Hetherington	Paupers: Poor Relief & Poor Houses
	Writing for Young Adults	Justine Larbalestier	Liar

2010s

Year	Category	Author	Title	Result
2010^[10]	Overall	Kim Scott	That Deadman Dance	Winner
	Children's book	Sally Murphy and Rhian Nest James	Toppling	Winner
	Digital Narrative	Robin Craig Clark	The Garden	Winner
	Fiction	Kim Scott	That Deadman Dance	Winner
	Non-fiction	Jim Davidson	The Historian: W K Hancock	Winner
	People's Choice	Lisa Lang	Utopian Man	Winner
	Poetry	Mark Tredinnick	Fire Diary	Winner
	Script	Tommy Murphy	Gwen in Purgatory	Winner
	Western Australian History	Susanna Iuliano	Vite Italiane, Italian Lives in Western Australia	Winner
	Writing for Young Adults	Scot Gardner	Happy as Larry	Winner
	Writing for Young Adults	James Roy	Anonymity Jones	Winner
2011^[11]	Overall	Fiona Skyring	Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia	Winner
	Children's book	Michele Gillespie and Sonia Martinez	Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck	Winner
	Digital Narrative	Max Barry	Machine Man	Winner
	Fiction	Anna Funder	All That I Am	Winner
	Non-fiction	Alice Pung	Her Father's Daughter	Winner
	People's Choice	Anna Funder	All That I Am	Winner
	Poetry	Tracy Ryan	The Argument	Winner
	Script	Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana	Cloudstreet: The Screenplay	Winner
	Western Australian History	Fiona Skyring	Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia	Winner
	Writing for Young Adults	Penni Russon	Only Ever Always	Winner
2012	Overall	Michelle de Kretser	Questions of Travel	Winner
	Children's book	Peter Macinnis	Australian Backyard Naturalist	Winner
	Children's book	Stephen Herrick	Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend	Winner
	Digital Narrative	David Reiter	My Planets Reunion Memoir	Winner
	Fiction	Michelle de Kretser	Questions of Travel	Winner
	Non-fiction	Roger Averill	Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz	Winner
	People's Choice	Deborah Forster	The Meaning of Grace	Winner
	Poetry	Robert Gray	Cumulus	Winner
	Script	Ingle Knight	The Fremantle Candidate	Winner
	Western Australian History	Aboriginal Studies Press	Kurlumarniny: We come from the Desert	Winner
	Writing for Young Adults	Margo Lanagan	Sea Hearts	Winner
2014^[12]	Overall	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Winner
	Children's book	Jan Ormerod and Andrew Joyner	The Swap	Winner
	Children's book	Dianne Wolfer and Brian Simmonds	Light Horse Boy	Winner
	Digital Narrative	Christy Dena	AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS	Winner
	Emerging Writer's Award	Yvette Walker	Letters to the End of Love	Winner
	Fiction	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Winner
	Non-fiction	Kristina Olsson	Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir	Winner
	People's Choice	Tim Winton	Eyrie	Winner
	Poetry	Paul Hetherington	Six Different Windows	Winner
	Script	Van Badham	The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars	Winner
	Western Australian History	Margaret Simons	Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man	Winner
	Writing for Young Adults	Alyssa Brugman	Alex as Well	Winner
2016^[13]	Overall	Helen Garner	This House of Grief	Winner
	Children's Books	Glenda Millard, illustrated by Stephen Michael King	The Duck and the Darklings	Winner
	Digital Narrative	David P. Reiter	Timelord Dreaming	Winner
	Fiction	Joan London	The Golden Age	Winner
	Non-fiction	Helen Garner	This House of Grief	Winner
	People's Choice Award	Miles Allinson	Fever of Animals	Winner
	Poetry	Lucy Dougan	The Guardians	Winner
	Scripts	Suzie Miller	Dust	Winner
	Western Australian Emerging Writers Award	Brooke Davis	Lost and Found	Winner
	Western Australian History	Ruth A. Morgan	Running Out? Water in WA	Winner
	Young Adult	Claire Zorn	The Protected	Winner
2018^[14]	Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors	Kirli Saunders	Mother Speaks	Winner
	Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer	Reneé Pettitt-Schipp	The Sky Runs Right Through Us	Winner
	Premier's Prize for Writing for Children	Kelly Canby	The Hole Story	Winner
	Western Australian Writer's Fellowship	A. J. Betts		Winner
2019^[15]^[5]	Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame	Kim Scott		Winner
	Western Australian Writer's Fellowship	Amanda Curtin		Winner
		Lucy Dougan		Shortlist
		Rafeif Ismail
		Caitlin Maling
		Carl Merrison
	Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer	Holden Sheppard	Invisible Boys	Winner
		Bindy Pritchard	Fabulous Lives	Shortlist
		Virginia Jealous	Rapture's Roadway
		David Pollock	The Wooleen Way
		Helen Milroy	Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories
	Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors	Teela May Reid	Our Matriarchs Matter	Winner
		Ellen van Neerven	18 Comments	Shortlist
		Elizabeth Stuart	Swell
		Jannali Jones	Yenda
		Krista Dunstan	Noble Intentions
	Premier's Prize for Writing for Children	Meg McKinlay	Catch a Falling Star	Winner
		Kathryn Lefroy	Alex and the Alpacas Save the World	Shortlist
		Meg McKinlay, illustrated by Leila Rudge	Let me Sleep, Sheep!
		Michael Speechley	The Gift
		Fiona Burrows	Violet and Nothing

2020s

Year	Category	Writer	Title	Publisher	Result
2020^[16]^[17]	Western Australian Writer's Fellowship	Sisonke Msimang			Winner
		Amanda Bridgeman			Shortlist
		Donna Mazza
		Jon Doust
		Madelaine Dickie
	Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer	Rebecca Giggs	Fathoms: The World in the Whale	Scribe	Winner
		Yuot A. Alaak	Father of the Lost Boys	Fremantle Press	Shortlist
		Pattie Lees and Adam C. Lees	A Question of Colour	Magabala Books
		Sophie McNeill	We Can't Say We Didn't Know	ABC Books
		Catherine Noske	The Salt Madonna	Pan Macmillan Australia
	Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors	Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler	Dirran		Winner
	Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors	Natasha Leslie	Home is Calling		Shortlist
	Premier's Prize for Writing for Children	Meg McKinlay, illustrated by Matt Ottley	How to Make a Bird		Winner
		Kelly Canby	Littlelight	Fremantle Press	Shortlist
		Shirley Purdie	Shirley Purdie: My Story, Ngaginybe Jarragbe	Magabala Books
		Bren MacDibble	Across The Risen Sea	Allen & Unwin
		Helen Milroy	Willy-willy Wagtail: Tales from the Bush Mob	Magabala Books
2021^[18]^[19]	Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame	Doris Pilkington Garimara			Winner
	Western Australian Writer's Fellowship	Nandi Chinna			Winner
		Caitlin Maling			Shortlist
		David Whish-Wilson
		John Mateer
		Julia Lawrinson
	Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer	Elfie Shiosaki	Homecoming	Magabala Books	Winner
		Cindy Solonec	Debesa	Magabala Books	Shortlist
		Josephine Taylor	Eye of a Rook	Fremantle Press
		David Allan-Petale	Locust Summer	Fremantle Press
		Emily Sun	Vociferate	Fremantle Press
	Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Writing	Mariah Sweetman	Robert Runs		Winner
		Sean Owen	Jack Trials: Whistling Spider		Shortlist
		Shirleyann Wilson	That one summer		Shortlist
	Premier's Prize for Writing for Children	Shirley Marr	A Glasshouse of Stars	Puffin	Winner
		Steve Heron	One Thousand Snapshots	Shawline	Shortlist
		James Foley	Stellarphant	Fremantle Press
		Cristy Burne and Denis Knight	Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows	Lothian
		Katie Stewart	Where Do the Stars Go?	Fremantle Press
2023^[20]^[21]	Western Australian Writer's Fellowship	Tracy Ryan			Winner
		Carolyn Wadley Dowley			Shortlist
		Madison Godfrey
		Michael Trant
		Norman Jorgensen
	Premier's Prize for Book of the Year	Nathan Hobby	The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard	Melbourne University Publishing	Winner
		Robert Drewe	Nimblefoot	Penguin Random House
		Joe Fox	The Shield and the Spear: the Kimberley Land Council	Magabala Books
		Louise Helfgott	Thistledown Seed: A Memoir	Brandl & Schlesinger
		Scott-Patrick Mitchell	Clean	Upswell Publishing
	Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer	Josh Kemp	Banjawarn	UWA Publishing	Winner
		Alan Fyfe	T	Transit Lounge	Shortlist
		Thomas Simpson	Bone Picker	Ginninderra Press
		Vivien Stuart	Acacia House	self-published
		Madeline Te Whiu	The Assassin Thief	New Dawn Publishing
	Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Fiction	Jared Thomas	Uncle Xbox (Book 2) - Getting Dusty		Winner
		Kristie Harris	A Queen's Glory		Shortlist
		Kim Morrison	The Ultimate AGD		Shortlist
	Premier's Prize for Children's Book of the Year	Leonard Cronin (Chris Nixon, illustrator)	Wild Australian Life	Allen & Unwin	Winner
		Moira Court	Lion is that You	Fremantle Press	Shortlist
		Zana Fraillon and Bren MacDibble	The Raven's Song	Allen & Unwin
		Helen Milroy	Owl and Star	Fremantle Press
		Judith Vun Price and Jacqui Vun	Nenek Tata and the Mangrove Menace	Crotchet Quaver noteworthy publications

References

^ "Western Australian Premier's Book Award Winners". goodreads.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ Writers anxious as a Book Award is edited, Artshub, 15 February 2015
^ "WA literary awards cut to biennial". The West Australian. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ "Premier's Book Awards: Categories and Prizes". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem's Book Award winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
^ "WA Premier's Book Awards unveils new category: Book of the Year". Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. 30 November 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
^ "Western Australian Premier's Literary Awards". History Countil of Western Australia.
^ "Media Statement 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
^ ^a ^b Past winners: 2008–2009
^ "WA Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
^ "WA Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
^ "WA Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^ "Helen Garner wins WA Premier's Book Award for This House of Grief". The West Australian. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
^ "Western Australian Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
^ "2019 Winners". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ "WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^ "2020 Winners".
^ "WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
^ "WA Premier's Book Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
^ "2023 WA Premier's Book Awards shortlists announced". Western Australian Government. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
^ "Winners of the 2023 WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Western Australian Government. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

External links

Official website

[1] "Western Australian Premier's Book Award Winners". goodreads.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[2] Writers anxious as a Book Award is edited, Artshub, 15 February 2015

[3] "WA literary awards cut to biennial". The West Australian. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[4] "Premier's Book Awards: Categories and Prizes". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

[:0-5] "Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem's Book Award winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020.

[6] "WA Premier's Book Awards unveils new category: Book of the Year". Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. 30 November 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

[7] "Western Australian Premier's Literary Awards". History Countil of Western Australia.

[wa2007-8] "Media Statement 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009.

[autogenerated1-9] Past winners: 2008–2009

[10] "WA Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 18 December 2022.

[11] "WA Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 18 December 2022.

[12] "WA Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[13] "Helen Garner wins WA Premier's Book Award for This House of Grief". The West Australian. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

[14] "Western Australian Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2019.

[15] "2019 Winners". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[16] "WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

[17] "2020 Winners".

[18] "WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

[19] "WA Premier's Book Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

[20] "2023 WA Premier's Book Awards shortlists announced". Western Australian Government. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

[21] "Winners of the 2023 WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Western Australian Government. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

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