Winner's Announced - Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2011

[Merilyn]

Winner Best Fiction - Traitor by Stephen Daisley

Stephen Daisley’s debut novel, Traitor, is a story of war and love, and how each changes everything, forever. It tells the story of two men thrown together by war in the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli – a young New Zealand soldier and a Turkish doctor. Evoking horror and beauty and a profound sense of the possibility of transformation, Traitor is that rarest of things: a work of fiction that will transport the reader, heart and soul, into another realm.

 

 Winner Best Non-Fiction - Hard Light of Day by Rod Moss

The Hard Light of Day is Rod Moss’ moving memoir of his life in Alice Springs as a young art teacher and his intimate friendship with the traditional owners, the Arrernte people. Illustrated with Moss’s evocative paintings and photographs, The Hard Light of Day is an incredible journey into a world never shown in the mainstream media, and an artist’s chronicle of the moments that have inspired him.

 

 

Winner Best Young Adult Fiction - Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Cath Crowley’s book, Graffiti Moon, is a story of graffiti artist Shadow and his friend Poet who haunt the night and the dreams of a girl named Lucy. Told from alternating points-of-view, Crowley perfectly captures the teenagers’ tenderness and their toughness. Graffiti Moon is Cath’s fifth novel, following the three Gracie Faltrain novels and the award-winning Chasing Charlie Duskin.

 

 

Winner Children's Book - Shake a Leg by Boori Monty & Jan Ormerod 

Shake a Leg by Boori Monty Pryor and illustrator Jan Ormerod is a book that challenges the boundaries of culture and of what a picture book can be. When three boys go into a pizza shop in far north Queensland they meet a pizza-maker, an Aboriginal man, who reveals not only the secrets of great pizza – but the stories that he draws upon for inspiration.