Indigenous author Debra Dank sweeps NSW Premier's Literary Awards with memoir We Come With This Place

Indigenous author Debra Dank has won a record four out of 14 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and $85,000 for her memoir of family and place, and says she hopes its success draws attention to the "soul destroying" destruction of her Country.

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