I’m curious about who wins and who doesn’t win literary awards. Debra Danks has pulled off a ‘Quaddie’, winning four major awards for her memoir, We Come With This Place. Apart from Kim Cheng Boey and Dylan Van Den Berg, they’re all women. The feminisation of literature is almost complete. It’s curious but makes sense. 90 per cent of Fic Lit writers are women writing for women. Whether these products sell is another matter. But it’s nice to have something to show Mum.

Full list of winners

Book of the Year ($10,000)

We Come With This Place by Debra Dank (Echo Publishing)

Indigenous Writers’ Prize ($30,000)

We Come With This Place by Debra Dank (Echo Publishing)

Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction ($40,000)

We Come With This Place by Debra Dank (Echo Publishing)

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5,000)

We Come With This Place by Debra Dank (Echo Publishing)

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)

Women I Know by Katerina Gibson (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Australia)

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000)

The Singer and Other Poems by Kim Cheng Boey (Cordite Books)

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)

The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia’s First Peoples by Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas (Hardie Grant Explore)

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000)

The Upwelling by Lystra Rose (Hachette Australia)

Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000)

Whitefella Yella Tree by Dylan Van Den Berg (Griffin Theatre Company/ Currency Press)

Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000)

Blaze by Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero (Causeway Films)

Multicultural NSW Award ($30,000)

The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey (Hardie Grant Books)

NSW Premier’s Translation Prize ($30,000 — biennial award)

People from Bloomington by Budi Darma, translated by Tiffany Tsao (Penguin Classics)

University of Sydney People’s Choice Award ($5,000)

Every Version of You by Grace Chan (Affirm Press)