Writing Australia is announcing the winners of the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, celebrating six outstanding books that reflect the breadth, skill and vitality of Australian storytelling, across Fiction, Non fiction, Australian history, Poetry, Young adult literature and Children’s literature.
The winners will be revealed at a ceremony at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, on Thursday 10 September 2026.
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were established in 2008 to recognise individual excellence and the contribution that Australian authors make to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life in the categories of non-fiction and fiction. In 2010 the young adult and children’s literature categories were introduced, followed by poetry in 2012 and the inclusion of the pre-existing Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History.
Previous winners of the award include Tara June Winch, Omar Sakr, Gerald Murnane, Nam Le, Judith Brett and Jessica Au.
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