Winners of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Announced!

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian writing makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.

Congratulations to the following books which have won their category in the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

Fiction

Winner: Red Heaven by Nicolas Rothwell

Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch

Devotion by Hannah Kent

The Hands of Pianists by Stephen Downes

Night Blue by Angela O’Keeffe

Non-fiction

Winner: Rogue Forces by Mark Willacy

Title Fight by Paul Cleary

The Case that Stopped a Nation by Peter Edwell

Puff Piece by John Safran

Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego

Poetry

Winner: Human Looking by Andy Jackson

Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston

Dancing with Stephen Hawking by John Foulcher

Fish Work by Caitlin Maling

Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki

Australian history

Winner: Semut by Christine Helliwell

White Russians, Red Peril by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna

Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age by Deirdre O’Connell

Farmers or Hunter Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe

Young adult literature

Winner: The Gaps by Leanne Hall

Still Alive by Safdar Ahmed

100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze by Clayton Zane Comber

Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim

Tell Me Why by Archie Roach

Children’s literature

Winner: Mina and the Whole Wide World by Sherryl Clark

The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood

Common Wealth by Gregg Dreise

Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee

Exit Through the Gift Shop by Maryam Master