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The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards are given to living authors who are Australian citizens or permanent residents. The winners in the two categories, Fiction and Non-fiction, each receive a cool $100,000.
Winner of the fiction prize this year is Nam Le for his collection of short stories, The Boat. Le has enjoyed great success with this debut collection : he also won the Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers, the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year, SMH Best Young Novelist and the Australian Book Industry Newcomer of the Year awards, among others.
This year the Non-fiction prize has been shared between two books, three authors : Evelyn Juers book about Heinrich Mann, brother of the famous German writer Thomas Mann, House of Exile : the life and times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann and Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds book, Drawing the Global Colour Line : white men’s countries and the question of racial equallity which is about the Australian immigration experience. 
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