South Australian Premier's Awards
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The South Australian Premier's Awards (also known as the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) - was established in 1986. They are granted biennially to the judged-best authors in Australian children’s literature, fiction, innovation, non-fiction and poetry. The awards, which judge the best works published in Australia in the previous two years, are the nation’s most competitive literary awards (563 entries submitted for 2006).
The Premier’s Award recognises the most outstanding published book submitted to the awards.
[edit] 2006 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
- South Australian Premier's Award for Literature: Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
- Children's Literature: It's Not All About You, Calma! by Barry Jonsberg
- Fiction: Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
- Innovation: <More or Less Than> 1-100 by M. T. C. Cronin
- Non-Fiction: Velocity by Mandy Sayer
- John Bray Poetry Award: Totem by Luke Davies
- Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for the Creative Development of a play script by a South Australian Writer: This Uncharted Hour by Finegan Kruckemeyer
- Unpublished Manuscript by a SA Emerging Writer to be Published by Wakefield Press: The Quakers by Rachel Hennessy
- Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship: Mike Ladd
- Carclew Fellowship: Christine Harris
