New South Wales Premier

NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD
the Patricia Wrightson and Ethel Turner awards

The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established by Premier Neville Wran in 1979 to honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers in a range of writing genres and age groups. The Children's Literature section began as a single award at that time, but was redefined in 1999 to create the Patricia Wrightson Prize (for writing for a primary school audience) and the Ethel Turner Prize (for a secondary school audience). The Ethel Turner Award was also given to all previous winners in the Children's Literature section.

More information is available from the NSW Ministry for the Arts pages

Year	Author (Illustrator)	Title	Category
2005	Herrick, Steven	*By the river*	Ethel Turner
2005	Clark, Sheryl	*Farm Kid*	Patricia Wrightson
2004	Metzenthen, David	*Boys of Blood and Bone*	Ethel Turner
2004	Meehan, Kieran	*Night Singing*	Patricia Wrightson
2003	Zusack, Marcus	*The Messenger*	Ethel Turner
2003	French, Simon	Where in the World	Patricia Wrightson
2002	Hill, Anthony	*Soldier Boy - the true story of Jim Martin, the youngest Anzac*	Ethel Turner
2002	Tan, Shaun	The Red Tree	Patricia Wrightson
2001	Moriarty, Jaclyn	Feeling Sorry for Celia	Ethel Turner
2001	Wild, Margaret (Brooks, Ron)	*Fox*	Patricia Wrightson
2000	Meme McDonald & Boori Monty Pryor	*The Binna-Binna Man*	Ethel Turner and Overall winner
2000	Herrick, Steven	*The Spangled Drongo*	Patricia Wrightson
1999	Disher, Gary	The Divine Wind	Ethel Turner
1999	Hirsch, Odo	*Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman*	Patricia Wrightson
1998		No awards
1997	Morimoto, Junko	The Two Bullies
1996	Metzenthen, David	Johnny Hart's Heroes
1995	Pausacker, Jenny	*Mr. Enigmatic*
1994	Dubosarsky, Ursula	*The White Guinea Pig*
1993	Klein, Robin	*All in the Blue Unclouded Weather*
1991	Crew, Gary	*Strange Objects!*
1990	Scholes, Katherine	*The Blue Chameleon*
1989	Pershall, Mary	You take the High Road
1988	Rubinstein, Gillian	Answers to Brut
1987	Hunt, Nan (Ogden, Bettina)	A Rabbit named Harris
1986	Aldridge, James	The True Story of Spit MacPhee
1985	Wheatley, Nadia	The House that was Eureka
1984	Fox, Mem (Vivas, Julie)	Possum Magic
1983	Allen Pamela	Who Sank the Boat?
1983	Wheatley, Nadia	Five Times Dizzy	Special Children's
1982	Hunt, Nan (Smith, Craig)	Whistle up the Chimney
1981	Park, Ruth (Niland, Deborah)	*When the Wind Changed*
1981	Spence, Eleanor	Seventh Pebble	Special Children's
1980	Allen, Pamela	Mr. Archimedes' Bath
1980	Berndt, Catherine	Land of the Rainbow Snake	Special Children's
1979	Wagner, Jenny (Brooks, Ron)	John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat
1979	Wrightson, Patricia	The Dark, Bright Water	Special Children's

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