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Winners of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2010

JA September 29

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced last night in Melbourne – here are the winners:

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction ($30,000)
Truth by Peter Temple

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction ($30,000)
Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life by Brenda Walker

The Young Adult Fiction Prize ($15,000)
Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar

The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry ($15,000)
Possession by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

The Louis Esson Prize for Drama ($15,000)
And No More Shall We Part by Tom Holloway

The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate ($15,000)
‘Seeing Truganini’ by David Hansen, Australian Book Review

The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer ($15,000)
House of Sticks by Peggy Frew

The John Curtin Prize for Journalism ($15,000)
‘Who Killed Mr Ward?’ by Janine Cohen and Liz Jackson, Four Corners, ABC Television

The Prize for First Book of History ($15,000)
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 by Clare Corbould

The Prize for Indigenous Writing ($15,000)
Legacy by Larissa Behrendt


 

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by Wheeler Centre
05 Oct 10 at 16:28

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by Wheeler Centre
05 Oct 10 at 16:30

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