Scroll down for a full list of winners A novel of love, history and languageĪs The Yield opens, Poppy Albert has died. The winners of this year's awards were announced via a pre-recorded ceremony streamed on the State Library of NSW website on Sunday evening, presided over by state librarian John Vallance. 'That was a really important award to me,' said Winch. Speaking to ABC from France, where she is based, the author said ' is my home state, so that means heaps,' and said that she still remembers winning the NSW Premier's Literary Award UTS Prize for New Writing for her debut novel, Swallow the Air, in 2007 - and writing her acceptance speech 'on the paper towels in the bathroom in the State Library'. Winch's novel has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, without winning either, and Winch admits to thinking she would be a perpetual 'bridesmaid'. The Yield also won the People's Choice award. 'Winch plays with form, shape, style, perspective and point of view in order to conjure three very distinct voices that speak to the past, present and future of our nation: Albert Gondiwindi, his granddaughter August and the nineteenth-century missionary Reverend Greenleaf.' Wiradjuri writer Tara June Winch has pulled off a hat-trick at the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her novel The Yield, taking home three major prizes, including the Book of the Year.Īwarding Winch's novel the top gong (worth $10,000) and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000), the judges described it as 'a ground-breaking and wholly original work of fiction by one of our most exciting contemporary writers'.

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