Gail Jones wins $80,000 fiction prize with Noah Glass in Prime Minister's Literary Awards

The Death of Noah Glass describes braided family lives where individuals are ‘essentially unknown to each other’

Gail Jones’ family drama The Death of Noah Glass has won the coveted prize for fiction in this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary awards.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, and Paul Fletcher, the minister for the arts, announced the awards at a ceremony in Canberra on Wednesday.

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There’s a division in the house and Prime Minister Scott Morrison has left to make a vote. Anabel Crabb is announcing the winners. #PMLitAwards pic.twitter.com/IxMKhGTLVs

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