Finally. The news is out on this year's PM's literary awards.
Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett has just announced the winners of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
The winner of the 2009 Fiction award is Nam Le for his book of short stories The Boat. The judging panel was impressed by the daring scope and excellence of its execution, the generous breadth of its emotional and social traverse and the excitement generated by every story.
In 2009, two books and three authors share the Non-Fiction award. The winners are Evelyn Juers for House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann; and Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds for Drawing the Global Colour Line.
Both books explore important racial, moral and political issues of Australia's past. The Non-Fiction judging panel said "With great intellectual authority and international research Evelyn Juers, Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds tell their stories magnificently."
The link for this Bookforum review of The Boat comes from Nam Le's reviews page on his website - scroll right on down...
The most recent Latrobe University Bulletin carried these remarks on Reynolds' and Lake's prizewinning book, here, and the Cambridge University Press catalogue entry includes (somewhat chunky bits of) reviews.
And my March '09 review of House of Exile, with links to other sources, is here.
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