A first-time author has been awarded a record four prizes and a total $85,000 at the New South Wales premier’s literary awards, a recognition she described as “overwhelming” and “significantly shocking” given she never set out to publish her memoir in the first place.
Gudanji/Wakaja writer Debra Dank’s book We Come with This Place won the prize for major book of the year at the NSW state library on Monday night, and was also named winner of the Indigenous writers’ prize, the prize for non-fiction and the award for new writing.
