Penguin Random House Australia

THE WINNERS OF THE 2025 PRIME MINISTER’S LITERARY AWARDS ANNOUNCED

David Kary / 29 September 2025

Minister for the Arts, The Hon Tony Burke MP, said of this year’s winners:

“This year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards highlight the remarkable breadth of talent in Australian writing. From deeply researched histories to works of poetry and fiction that

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Literature, Memoir

mary’s last dance: the untold story of the wife of ‘mao’s last dancer’

Lynne Lancaster / 4 November 2020

This highly anticipated book is a companion piece in a way to ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’, the extraordinary story of Li Cunxin currently Artistic Director of the Queensland Ballet.

Now for Mary, his wife. It is a powerful and moving tale …