Michelle De Kretser’s Questions of Travel has won the Premier’s Prize (and the fiction category) at the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, announced last night at an award ceremony held at the State Reception Centre in Kings Park. It is yet another win for Michelle De Kretser who has, this year, already won the Miles Franklin Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.
Winners of the other categories are:
Young Adult
Sea Hearts / Margo Lanagan
Children’s Fiction
Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend / Stephen Herrick
Children’s Non-fiction
Australian Backyard Naturalist / Peter Macinnis
WA History
Kurlumarniny: We Come from the Desert / Monty Hale (Minyjun)
Digital Narrative
My Planets Reunion Memoir / David P Reiter
Non-fiction
Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz / Roger Averill
Poetry
Cumulus / Robert Gray
Scripts
The Fremantle Candidate / Ingle Knight