Victorian Premier's Literary Award
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The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry.
They were established in 1985 by John Cain, the Premier of Victoria at that time, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer, two of Australia's best-known writers and critics who both made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture.
In 1997 the administration of the awards was transferred to the State Library of Victoria. By 2004 the award's total prize money was $180,000 AUD.
Past fiction winners included David Malouf (Antipodes, 1985) Amanda Lohrey (Camille’s Bread, 1996), Peter Carey (Illywhacker, 1986 and True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001), Kate Grenville (Dark Places, 1995) and Raimond Gaita (Romulus, My Father, 1998).
[edit] Awards Categories
- The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
- The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
- The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
- The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
- The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
- The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
- The Prize for Science Writing
- The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
- The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
- The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
- The Prize for Indigenous Writing (Biennal)
- The Prize for a First Book of History (Biennal)
- The Dinny O'Hearn Prize for Literary Translation. (Triennal)
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Winners: Fiction Awards (The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction)
2006 Theft: A love Story by Peter Carey (Knopf/Random House)
2005 Surrender by Sonya Hartnett(Viking/Penguin)
2004 Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose(Vintage/Random House)
2003 Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro (Giramondo)
2002 Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan (Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia)
2001 The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Knopf)
2000 Out of Ireland by Christopher Koch (ubleday/Random House Australia
1999 Mr Darwin’s Shooter by Roger McDonald (Random House Australia)
1998 The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan (Pan Macmillan)
1997 The Drowner by Robert Drewe (Pan Macmillan)
1996 Camille's Bread by Amanda Lohrey (Harper Collins)
1995 Dark Places by Kate Grenville (Pan Macmillan)
1994 What I Have Written by John A Scott (McPhee Gribble)
1993 After China by Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin)
1992 Double Wolf by Brian Castro(Allen & Unwin)
1991 Still Murder by Finola Moorhead (Penguin Books)
1990 Oceana Fine by Tom Flood (Allen & Unwin)
1989 Captivity Captive by Rodney Hall (McPhee Gribble)
1988 Holden’s Performance by Murray Bail (Penguin Books)
1987 Second Sight by Janine Burke (Greenhouse)
1986 Illywhacker by Peter Carey (University of Queensland Press)
1985 Antipodes by David Malouf (Chatto & Windus)
