The six winners of 2023’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Images: Supplied.
Creative Australia has just announced the winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLA) at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
The Awards are the richest literary prize in the country, with a tax-free prize pool of $600,000 in acknowledgement of the literary excellence of Australian writers and illustrators. A total of 643 entries were received across six literary categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Young Adult Literature, Children’s Literature, Poetry and Australian History. Each category winner receives $80,000. The Awards shortlistees, announced on 25 October, have each received a prize of $5000.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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