The NSW Premier awarded $295,000 in prize money to some of Australia’s finest writers across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children’s and young adult literature, script and playwriting.

Bram Presser won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and People’s Choice Award for Book of Dirt.

Kim Scott won Book of the Year and the Indigenous Writer’s Prize for Taboo.

For more details go to the State Library of NSW website: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-awards/nsw-premiers-literary-awards