From: Judith Ridge <judith.ridge_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:38:52 +1100

I hope you don't mind me popping into this discussion to let you all know about the winners of the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Prize. This i s a very new award, only about 3 years old, and this year for the first time there were new categories for children's and YA fiction. The prize money is substantial--$100,000 tax free--and we are very pleased that the children's/YA winners receive the same as the writers of adult fiction and non-fiction (not always the case in the state literary awards).

The 2010 winners are:

Children's fiction winner *Star Jumps* by Lorraine Marwood Young adult fiction winner *Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God* by Bill Condon

Both authors and books are known to me: Lorraine's book is a verse novel, and I wrote the teachers' notes for Bill's picaresque novel, set in the Vietnam War era in Australia. The shortlists for both categories were very strong, and the winners highly deserving.



Judith

Judith Ridge Western Sydney Young People's Literature Officer

Arts and Cultural Development Blacktown City Council PO Box 63 (62 Flushcombe Road) Blacktown NSW 2148 AUSTRALIA

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