Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Shortlists 2010
JA
September 07
Here are the shortlists for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, which are now administered by the Wheeler Centre.
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction ($30,000)
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro,
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Truth by Peter Temple
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction ($30,000)
Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War by Rodney Hall
A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie
Captain Cook Was Here by Maria Nugent
Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter by Maria Tumarkin
Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life by Brenda Walker
The Young Adult Fiction Prize ($15,000)
Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar
Swerve by Phillip Gwynne
Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry ($15,000)
Beneath Our Armour by Peter Bakowski
Possession by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
The Adoption Order by Ian McBryde
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama ($15,000)
Moth by Declan Greene
And No More Shall We Part by Tom Holloway
Furious Mattress by Melissa Reeves
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate ($15,000)
‘Patriot Acts’ by Waleed Aly, The Monthly
‘Stupid Money’ by Gideon Haigh, Griffith Review
‘Seeing Truganini’ by David Hansen, Australian Book Review
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer ($15,000)
Winsome of Rangoon by Michelle Aung Thin
House of Sticks by Peggy Frew
Cambodia Darkness and Light by Andrew Nette
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism ($15,000)
‘Shutting Down Sharleen’ by Eurydice Aroney and Tom Morton, Hindsight, ABC Radio National
‘Who Killed Mr Ward?’ by Janine Cohen and Liz Jackson, Four Corners, ABC Television
‘Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’ by Annabel Crabb, Quarterly Essay
The Prize for First Book of History ($15,000)
From Superwoman to Domestic Goddesses: the Rise and Fall of Feminism by Natasha Campo
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 by Clare Corbould
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France by Julie Kalman
The Prize for Indigenous Writing ($15,000)
Legacy by Larissa Behrendt
Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste? by Lorraine McGee-Sippel
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