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Winners announced at NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

A total of $305,000 was awarded across 13 prize categories on Monday night at the State Library of NSW.

17 May 2016

Richard Watts

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Award winner Bruce Pascoe; photo by Lyn Harwood.

Author Bruce Pascoe won Book of the Year at the NSW Premier’s 2016 Literary Awards last night, for his acclaimed non-fiction study of Aboriginal agriculture, Dark Emu, which also shared top honours in the inaugural Indigenous Writer’s Prize with Ellen Van Neerven’s Heat and Light.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts