Friday, 21 September 2012
UWA Publishing's Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia by author Fiona Skyring has won the $25,000 Premier's Prize for best overall book in the WA Premier's Book Awards.
The book beat a record 595 other entries, including Anna Funder's Miles Franklin winner All That I Am and Cloudstreet: The Screenplay by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana.
The judges described the "must-read" book as an "elegantly written, painstakingly researched and profoundly relevant publication".
More details here .
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