Western Australian Premier's Book Awards


The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia. Awards are given in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, Western Australian History, children's book, writing for Young Adults, scripts and digital narrative. An overall winner is awarded the Premier's Prize.
The title of the award refers to the year of publication, rather than the year in which the awards were announced. So, the 2011 awards were announced in 2012, for works published in 2011.
The Award includes prize amounts as follows: $15,000 for Fiction, Non-fiction and Children's Books. $10,000 for Young Adults, WA History, Poetry and Scripts. $5,000 for People's Choice and Digital Narrative. The Premier's Prize carries prize money of $25,000.
In 2015, the state government downgraded the awards from an annual event to biannual, to the disappointment of the WA arts sector.
In 2018 only four categories were open to entries — the Western Australian Writer's Fellowship, the Premier's Prize for Writing for Children, the Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer and the Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors.

2018 winners

The 2018 winners were announced on 26 July 2019.
The 2016 winners were announced on 3 October 2016. The Premier's Prize went to This House of Grief by Helen Garner.
The 2014 winners were announced on 22 September 2014. The overall winner was Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
The 2012 winners were announced on 16 September 2013. The overall winner was Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel.
The 2011 winners were announced on 17 September 2012. The overall winner was Fiona Skyring's Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
The 2010 winners were announced on 30 September 2011. The overall winner was Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance
The 2008 & 2009 winners were announced September 2010. The overall winner was Shirley Barrett's South Solitary.
The 2008 & 2009 winners were announced September 2010. The overall winner was Chloe Hooper's '.
The winners were announced in 2008. The overall winner was Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen's Ziba Came on a Boat.
The overall winner was Shaun Tan's The Arrival.
The overall winner was Davenport etc.. Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert
The overall winner was Gail Jones' Sixty Lights
The overall winner was Reg Cribb's Last Cab to Darwin
The overall winner was Richard Bosworth's Mussolini
The overall winner was Tim Winton's Dirt Music
The overall winner was Michèle Drouart's Into the Wadi
The overall winner was Kim Scott's Benang: From the Heart