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Last night Premier Colin Barnett announced Fiona Skyring’s Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia as winner of the 2011 Premier’s Prize worth $25,000.
Highly acclaimed Western Australian author Tim Winton was inducted into our Hall of Fame.
2011 Western Australia’s Premier’s Book Awards Category Winners
- Non-Fiction: Alice Pung, Her Father’s Daughter
Published by Black Inc. - Fiction: Anna Funder, All That I Am
Published by Penguin Group (Australia) - Scripts: Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana, Cloudstreet: The Screenplay
Published by Penguin Group (Australia) - Children’s Books: Michelle Gillespie and Sonia Martinez, Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck;
Published by Fremantle Press. - Poetry: Tracy Ryan, The Argument
Published by Fremantle Press - Young Adults: Penni Russon, Only Ever Always
Published by Allen & Unwin - State Library of Western Australia WA History: Fiona Skyring, Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Published by UWA Publishing - Digital Narrative Award: Max Barry, Machine Man
Published by Scribe Publications - People’s Choice Award: Anna Funder, All That I Am
Published by Penguin Group (Australia) - Premier’s Prize: Fiona Skyring, Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia;
Published by UWA Publishing
Congratulations to all of the winners & publishers.
