The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced at a livestreamed event from the National Library of Australia.

Congratulations to UWA Publishing. Their title Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam has won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian history.

Congratulations also go to Magabala Books. Their title Cooee Mittigar by Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson has won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature.

Winners in other categories include:

• Fiction: The Yield by Tara June Winch
• Non-fiction joint winners: Songspirals: sharing women’s wisdom of Country through songlines by the Gay’wu Group of Women and Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
• Poetry: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
• Young adult literature: How it Feels to Float by Helena Fox.

You can via the entire awards ceremony via YouTube.