Michelle de Kretser has won the fiction prize in the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. It’s her second major prize this year for her ambitious, experimental novel Theory and Practice, which won the 2025 Stella Prize (and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin).
De Kretser headed a winners’ list that confronts moments of crisis and care. The six books – across fiction, nonfiction, Australian history, poetry, young adult literature and children’s literature – reckon with histories of illness and inequality. They consider what it means to live according to one’s principles.
