Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books and scripts written by Western Australians or about Western Australia. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia. Awards are given in the following categories:

An overall winner is awarded the Premier's Prize.

[edit] 2005 winners

Fiction: Carrie Tiffany Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (Picador)
Poetry: Rod Moran The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005 (Salt Publishing)
Non-fiction:
- Richard Bosworth Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 (Allen Lane/Penguin)
- Philippa Nikulinsky and Stephen D Hopper Soul of the Desert (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
Western Australian History & Overall: Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson (historian) and Yuwali Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert (Aboriginal Studies Press)
Children's book: Wendy Binks Where’s Stripey? (Stunned Emu Press)
Writing for Young Adults: Kirsty Murray A Prayer for Blue Delaney (Allen & Unwin)
Script: Reg Cribb Last Train to Freo (Sue Taylor Media)

Fiction & Overall: Gail Jones Sixty Lights (Random House Australia)
Poetry: Miriam Wei Wei Lo Against Certain Capture (Five Islands Press)
Non-fiction:
- Greg Craven Conversations with the Constitution (University of New South Wales)
- Kate Lance Redbill: From Pearls to Peace - The Life and Times of a Remarkable Lugger (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Western Australian History: Anthony Barker Behind the Play (West Australian Football Commission)
Children's book: Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding A Home for Bilby (Magabala Books)
Writing for Young Adults: Anthony Eaton Fireshadow (University of Queensland)
Script: Jolly Read Yandy (Black Swan Theatre Company)

Fiction: Brett D'Arcy The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks (Vintage)
Poetry: John Kinsella Peripheral Light (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Non-fiction:
- John Dowson Old Fremantle (University of Western Australia)
- Stephen Kinnane Shadow Lines (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Children's book: Mark Greenwood The Legend of Lasseter's Reef (Cygnet/University of Western Australia)
Writing for Young Adults: Colin Bowles Nights in the Sun (Penguin)
Script & Overall: Reg Cribb Last Cab to Darwin (Pork Chop Productions/Black Swan Theatre)

Fiction: Gail Jones Black Mirror (Picador)
Poetry: Barbara Temperton Going Feral (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Non-fiction:
- & Overall: Richard Bosworth Mussolini (Edward Arnold)
- Walmajarri storytellers, ed. Joyce Hudson, Pat Lowe & Eirlys Richards Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus (Magabala Books)
Children's book: Mark Greenwood & Frané Lessac The Legend of Moondyne Joe (Cygnet/University of Western Australia)
Writing for Young Adults: Pat Lowe Feeling the Heat (Penguin)
Script: Hellie Turner Bench

Fiction & Overall: Tim Winton Dirt Music (Picador)
Poetry: Dorothy Hewett Halfway up the Mountain (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Non-fiction:
- John Bailey (writer) The White Divers of Broome (Macmillan)
- Jan Gothard Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia (Melbourne University)
Children's book: Deborah Lisson The Yankee Whaler (Scholastic)
Writing for Young Adults: Julia Lawrinson Obsession (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Script: Sally Riley & Archie Weller Confessions of a Headhunter

Fiction: Simone Lazaroo The Australian Fiancé (Pan Macmillan)
Poetry: Mark Reid Parochial (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Non-fiction:
- & Overall: Michèle Drouart Into the Wadi (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Robert Drewe The Shark Net: Memories and Murder (Viking)
Children's book: Kirsty Murray Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish (Allen & Unwin)
Writing for Young Adults: Anthony Eaton The Darkness (University of Queensland)

Fiction & Overall: Kim Scott Benang: From the Heart (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Poetry: Tracy Ryan The Willing Eye (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Historical & Critical Studies: Estelle Blackburn Broken Lives (Stellar Publishing)
Children's book: Reg Bolton Showtime: Over 75 Ways to Put on a Show (Dorling Kindersley)
Writing for Young Adults: Glyn Parry Scooterboy (Hodder Headline)
Special Award: Victor France, Larry Mitchell & Alison Wright Abrolhos Islands Conversations (Fremantle Arts Centre)

Overall: Carolyn Polizzotto Pomegranate Season (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Fiction: Pat Jacobs Going Inland (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Poetry: John Kinsella The Hunt (Fremantle Arts Centre) & Fay Zwicky The Gatekeeper's Wife (Brandl & Schlesinger)
Historical & Critical Studies: Quentin Beresford & Paul Omaji Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations (Fremantle Arts Centre)
Children's book: Pat Lowe & Jimmy Pike Desert Dog (Magabala Books)
Writing for Young Adults: Deborah Lisson Red Hugh (Lothian)
Script Award: Ingle Knight Milk and Honey (Perth Theatre Company)