{"id":21034,"date":"2026-09-11T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=21034"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:51:00","slug":"observer-literary-awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/09\/11\/observer-literary-awards-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Literary Awards winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing Australia announced the winners of the 2026 Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Awards, celebrating six outstanding books that reflect the breadth, skill and vitality of Australian storytelling.<br>The winners were revealed at a ceremony at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, on Thursday (Sep. 10).<br>The Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Awards recognise the exceptional contribution Australian writers, illustrators, poets and historians make to Australia\u2019s cultural and intellectual life.<br><strong>Australian History<\/strong><br>The Southern Frontier by Rohan Howitt (Melbourne University Publishing)<br><strong>Children&#8217;s Literature<\/strong><br>Song of a Thousand Seas by Zana Fraillon (University of Queensland Press)<br><strong>Fiction<\/strong><br>A Piece of Red Cloth by Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga and Djawundil Maymuru (Allen and Unwin)<br><strong>Non-fiction<\/strong><br>The Red House by Kate Wild (Allen and Unwin)<br><strong>Poetry<\/strong><br>Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender Baskan (Giramondo Publishing)<br><strong>Young adult literature<\/strong><br>Drift by Pip Harry (Hachette Australia)<br>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (pictured) said: \u201cCongratulations to all of this year\u2019s winners, whose work demonstrates the depth and diversity of Australian literature.<br>\u201cOur stories connect us across generations, cultures and communities, and allow the world to see Australia through Australian eyes.<br>\u201cMy Government is proud to support the writers, illustrators, poets and historians whose creativity makes such an important contribution to Australia.\u201d<br>Arts Minister Tony Burke said: \u201cAustralian writers have a remarkable breadth of talent. The Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Awards highlights some of Australia\u2019s best to the national stage.&#8221;<br>Director of Writing Australia, Wenona Byrne, said: \u201cThese remarkable books show Australian storytelling at its finest, illuminating our past, drawing us into lives beyond our own.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Australia announced the winners of the 2026 Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Awards, celebrating six outstanding books that reflect the breadth, skill and vitality of Australian storytelling.The winners were revealed at a ceremony at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, on Thursday (Sep. 10).The Prime Minister\u2019s Literary Awards recognise the exceptional contribution Australian writers, illustrators, poets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21039,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions\/21039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}