Joan London wins the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Image: www.facebook.com/malcolmturnbull
Last night Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for the Arts Mitch Fifield announced the winners of the 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
Author Joan London took out the literary award for fiction for her novel The Golden Age, about a Hungarian refugee growing up with polio in Australia in the 1950s and described as taking ‘the restricting condition of illness as its starting point and [weaving] a story of irreducibly powerful emotion.’
Sharing congratulations on his Facebook page, Turnbull expressed an appreciation for literature.
‘All of us live in a world which is, in part the here and now, and part the world of the imagination. And the world of the imagination is a world created by artists. Our whole perception of Australia is in large part from the contribution of literature,’ he wrote.
The award for non-fiction was shared by authors Darleen Bungey and Michael Wilding.
