The winners of the 2006 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards have been announced.
Premier's Prize
Shaun Tan - The Arrival
Fiction
Simone Lazaroo - The Travel Writer
Poetry
Dennis Haskell - All the Time in the World
Non-Fiction
Quentin Beresford - Rob Riley: an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice; and
Peter Edwards - Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins
West Australian History Award
Bobbie Oliver and Patrick Bertola - The Workshops: A History of the Midland Government Railway Workshops
Children's Books
Shaun Tan - The Arrival
Young Adult's Books
Kate McCaffrey - Destroying Avalon
Scripts
Hellie Turner - "Sardines"
So, Shaun Tan goes from strength to strength.
