The winners of the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are:
Fiction
- The Yield (Tara June Winch, Hamish Hamilton)
Nonfiction (joint winners)
- Songspirals: Sharing women’s wisdom of Country through songlines (Gay’wu Group of Women, A&U)
- Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia (Christina Thompson, HarperCollins)
Australian history
- Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal encounters in the Archipelago (Tiffany Shellam, UWA Publishing)
Poetry
- The Lost Arabs (Omar Sakr, UQP)
Children’s literature
- Cooee Mittigar: A story on Darug songlines (Jasmine Seymour, illus by Leanne Mulgo Watson, Magabala)
Young adult literature
- How it Feels to Float (Helena Fox, Pan).
The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in November, receive $80,000 and the shortlisted writers receive $5000.