Victorian Premier's Literary Award
The Victorian Premier's Literary Award is an Australian literary prize that has been awarded by the state of Victoria since 1986 . With a total prize of 265,000 Australian dollars (AU $) and a maximum price of 125,000 AU $, it is the most highly endowed Australian literary prize.
The price
Awards are given in the following categories:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction (non-fiction)
- Poetry
- Drama (theater)
- Young Adults (youth book)
- Indigenous Writing ( Aboriginal literature , awarded biennially)
The winner in each of these categories will receive AU $ 25,000. A grand prize winner will then be selected from the category winners and will receive an additional AU $ 100,000. In addition to the categories mentioned, there is an AU $ 15,000 award for unpublished texts ( Unpublished Manuscript ) and an audience award ( People's Choice Award ).
The award was set up on the initiative of John Cain, then Prime Minister of Victoria. The award took place until 1996 as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival . From 1997 the organization was with the State Library of Victoria and since 2011 the Wheeler Center in Melbourne is responsible. The above categories have existed since 2010. Previously (as of 2009) the following individual prizes were awarded in the following categories:
- Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
- Prize for Young Adult Fiction
- Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
- CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
- Louis Esson Prize for Drama
- Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
- John Curtin Prize for Journalism
- Prize for Best Music Theater Script
- Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
- Prize for Science Writing
Since 2014, the award refers to the year of the award, until then to the year of publication of the work in question, which means that there was no award for 2013.
In 2019, the award of the award attracted international attention, as the award winner Behrouz Boochani is an Iraqi Kurd who has been interned by Australia as an asylum seeker on the island of Manus for six years and is therefore unlikely to be able to attend the award ceremony. The excellent text No Friend But the Mountains originated from individual text messages sent by Manus in which Boochani reported on his escape via Indonesia to Australia, the situation of the internees and the living conditions in the camp. Speaking at the award ceremony, Boochani said:
"I certainly did not write this book just to win an award. My main aim has always been for the people in Australia and around the world to understand deeply how this system has tortured innocent people on Manus and Nauru in a systematic way for almost six years. I hope this award will bring more attention to our situation, and create change, and end this barbaric policy. "
“I certainly didn't write this book for a prize. My main goal has always been to give people in Australia and around the world a deep understanding of how this system has systematically tortured innocent people on Manus and Nauru for nearly six years. I hope that the award will raise awareness of our situation and bring about change, and an end to this barbaric politics. "
List of award winners
Grand Prize
- 2019 Behrouz Boochani : No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
- 2018 Sarah Krasnostein : The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster
- 2017 Leah Purcell : The Drover's Wife
- 2016 Mary Anne Butler : Broken
- 2015 Alan Atkinson : The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation
- 2014 Jennifer Maiden : Liquid Nitrogen
- 2012 Bill Gammage : The Biggest Estate on Earth
- 2011 Kim Scott : That Deadman Dance
Fiction
- 2019 Elise Valmorbida : The Madonna of the Mountains
- 2018 Melanie Cheng : Australia Day
- 2017 Georgia Blain : Between a Wolf and a Dog
- 2016 Mireille Juchau : The World Without Us
- 2015 Rohan Wilson : To Name Those Lost
- 2014 Alex Miller : Coal Creek
- 2012 Gillian Mears : Foal's Bread
- 2011 Kim Scott : That Deadman Dance
Before 2011, the name of the prize was Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction :
- 2010 Peter Temple : Truth
- 2009 Christos Tsiolkas : The Slap
- 2008 Helen Garner : The Spare Room
- 2007 Alexis Wright : Carpentaria
- 2006 Peter Carey : Theft: A Love Story
- 2005 Sonya Hartnett : Surrender
- 2004 Annamarie Jagose : Slow Water
- 2003 Brian Castro : Shanghai Dancing
- 2002 Richard Flanagan : Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
- 2001 Peter Carey : True History of the Kelly Gang
- 2000 Christopher John Koch : Out of Ireland
- 1999 Roger McDonald : Mr Darwin's Shooter
- 1998 Richard Flanagan : The Sound of One Hand Clapping
- 1997 Robert Drewe : The Drowner
- 1996 Amanda Lohrey : Camille's Bread
- 1995 Kate Grenville : Dark Places
- 1994 John A. Scott : What I Have Written
- 1993 Brian Castro : After China
- 1992 Brian Castro : Double Wolf
- 1991 Finola Moorhead : Still Murder
- 1990 Tom Flood : Oceana Fine
- 1989 Rodney Hall : Captivity Captive
- 1988 Murray Bail : Holden's Performance
- 1987 Janine Burke : Second Sight
- 1986 Peter Carey : Illywhacker
- 1985 David Malouf : Antipodes
Nonfiction (non-fiction)
- 2019 Behrouz Boochani : No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
- 2018 Sarah Krasnostein : The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster
- 2017 Madeline Gleeson : Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus
- 2016 Gerald Murnane : Something for the Pain
- 2015 Alan Atkinson : The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation
- 2014 Henry Reynolds : Forgotten War
- 2012 Bill Gammage : The Biggest Estate on Earth
- 2011 Mark McKenna : An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark
Before 2011, the name of the prize was the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction :
- 2010 Brenda Walker : Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life
- 2009 Chloe Hooper : The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
- 2008 Meredith Hooper : The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
- 2007 Danielle Clode : Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
- 2006 Helen Ennis : Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography
- 2005 Robert Dessaix : Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
- 2004 Graeme Davison : Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities
- 2003 Barry Hill : Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession
- 2002 Brenda Niall : The Boyds: A Family Biography
- 2001 Anna Haebich : Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
- 2000 Adrian Caesar : The White
- 1999 Peter Robb : M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
- 1998 Raimond Gaita : Romulus, My Father
- 1997 Peter Robb : Midnight in Sicily
- 1996 not awarded
- 1995 Brenda Niall : Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer
- 1994 Jim Davidson : Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre 1884-1962
- 1993 Greg Dening : Mr Bligh's Bad Language
- 1992 David Marr : Patrick White: A Life
- 1991 Dorothy Hewett : Wild Card
- 1990 Roland Griffiths-Marsh : The Sixpenny Soldier
- 1989 Oskar Spate : Paradise Found and Lost
Poetry
- 2019 Kate Lilley : Tilt
- 2018 Bella Li : Argosy
- 2017 Maxine Beneba Clarke : Carrying the World
- 2016 Alan Loney : Crankhandle
- 2015 Jill Jones : The Beautiful Anxiety
- 2014 Jennifer Maiden : Liquid Nitrogen
- 2012 John Kinsella : Armor
- 2011 Cate Kennedy : The Taste of River Water
Before 2011, the name of the award was CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry :
- 2010 Anna Kerdijk Nicholson : Possession (Five Islands Press)
- 2009 Robert Adamson : The Golden Bird
- 2008 Lisa Gorton : Press Release
- 2007 Judy Johnson : Jack
- 2006 John Tranter : Urban Myths: 210 Poems
- 2005 MTC Cronin : <More Or Less Than> 1-100
- 2004 Judith Beveridge : Wolf Notes
- 2003 Emma Lew : Anything the Landlord Touches
- 2002 Robert Gray : Afterimages
- 2001 John Mateer : Barefoot Speech
- 2000 John Millett : Iceman
- 1999 Gig Ryan : Pure and Applied
- 1998 Coral Hull : Broken Land
- 1997 Les Murray : Subhuman Redneck Poems
- 1996 Peter Bakowski : In the Human Night
- 1995 Bruce Beaver : Anima and Other Poems
- 1994 Robert Gray : Certain Things
- 1993 Les Murray : Translations from the Natural World
- 1992 Robert Harris : Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
- 1991 Jennifer Maiden : The Winter Baby
- 1990 Robert Adamson : The Clean Dark
- 1989 Gwen Harwood : Bone Scan
- 1988 Judith Beveridge : The Domesticity of Giraffes
- 1987 Lily Brett : The Auschwitz Poems
- 1986 Rhyll McMaster : Washing the Money
- 1986 John A. Scott : St. Clair
- 1985 Kevin Hart : Your Shadow
- 1985 Rosemary Dobson : The Three Fates
Drama (theater)
- 2019 Kendall Feaver : The Almighty Sometimes
- 2018 Michele Lee : Rice
- 2017 Leah Purcell : The Drover's Wife
- 2016 Mary Anne Butler : Broken
- 2015 Angus Cerini : Resplendence
- 2014 Patricia Cornelius : Savages
- 2012 Lally Katz : A Golem Story
- 2011 Patricia Cornelius : Do not go gentle ...
Prior to 2011, the name of the prize was Louis Esson Prize for Drama :
- 2010 Tom Holloway : And No More Shall We Part
- 2009 Lally Katz : Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd
- 2008 Andrew Bovell : When the Rain Stops Falling
- 2007 Jane Bodie : A Single Act
- 2006 Stephen Sewell : Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon
- 2005 Melissa Reeves : The Spook
- 2004 Stephen Sewell : Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America
- 2003 Joanna Murray-Smith : Rapture
- 2002 Andrew Bovell : Holy Day
- 2001 Peta Murray : Salt
- 2000 Hannie Rayson : Life After George
- 1999 Catherine Zimdahl : Clark in Sarajevo
- 1998 Daniel Keene : Every Minute, Every Hour, Every Day
- 1997 Michael Gurr : Jerusalem
- 1996 Joanna Murray-Smith : Honor
- 1995 Barry Dickins : Remembering Ronald Ryan
- 1994 Louis Nowra : The Temple
- 1993 Michael Gurr : Sex Diary of an Infidel
- 1992 Jocelyn Moorhouse : Proof
- 1991 Katherine Thomson : Diving for Pearls
- 1990 Sam Sejavka : The Hive
- 1989 Daniel Keene : Silent Partner
- 1988 Alma De Groen : The Rivers of China
- 1987 Ben Lewin : A Matter of Convenience
- 1986 Janis Balodis : Too Young for Ghosts
- 1985 David Allen : Cheapside
Young People's (youth book)
- 2019 Ambelin Kwaymullina , Ezekiel Kwaymullina : Catching Teller Crow
- 2018 Demet Divaroren : Living on Hope Street
- 2017 Randa Abdel-Fattah : When Michael met Mina
- 2016 Marlee Jane Ward : Welcome to Orphancorp
- 2015 Claire Zorn : The Protected
- 2014 Barry Jonsberg : My Life as an Alphabet
- 2012 John Larkin : The Shadow Girl
- 2011 Cassandra Golds : The Three Loves of Persimmon
- 2010 Kirsty Eagar : Raw Blue
- 2009 Sue Saliba : Something in the World Called Love
- 2008 Brigid Lowry : Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful
- 2007 Simmone Howell : Notes from the Teenage Underground
- 2006 Ursula Dubosarsky : Theodora's Gift
- 2005 Scott Westerfeld : So Yesterday
- 2004 Margo Lanagan : Black Juice
- 2003 David Metzenthen : Wildlight: A journey
- 2002 Meme McDonald , Boori Monty Pryor : Njunjul the Sun
- 2001 James Moloney : Touch Me
- 2000 Helen Barnes : Killing Aurora
- 1999 Phillip Gwynne : Deadly, Unna?
Indigenous Writing (Aboriginal literature)
- 2019 Kim Scott : Taboo
- 2016 Tony Birch : Ghost River
Unpublished Manuscript (unpublished texts)
- 2019 Victoria Hannan : Kokomo
- 2017 Christian White : Decay Theory
- 2016 Melanie Cheng : Australia Day
- 2015 Jane Harper : The Dry
- 2014 Miles Allinson : Fever of Animals
- 2013 Maxine Beneba Clarke : Foreign Soil
- 2012 Graeme Simsion : The Rosie Project
- 2010 Peggy Frew : House of Sticks
- 2009 Amy Espeseth : Sufficient Grace
- 2008 Mandy Maroney : Going Finish
- 2007 Nick Gadd : The Ghost Writer
- 2006 Andrew Hutchinson : Rohypnol
- 2005 Peter Barry: I Hate Martin Amis et al
- 2004 Angela Savage : Thai Died
- 2003 Carrie Tiffany : Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
People's Choice Award (audience award)
- 2019 Bri Lee : Eggshell Skull
- 2018 Alison Evans : Ida
- 2017 Randa Abdel-Fattah : When Michael met Mina
- 2016 Miles Allinson : Fever of Animals
- 2015 Tim Low : Where Song Began
- 2014 Hannah Kent : Burial Rites
- 2012 Aidan Fennessy : National Interest
- 2011 Anna Krien : Into The Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ^ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards ( memento March 29, 2016 on the Internet Archive ), State Library of Victoria page.
- ↑ a b Behrouz Boochani: detained asylum seeker wins Australia's richest literary prize , article by Calla Wahlquist in The Guardian of January 31, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019.
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2015 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2014 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2012 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ↑ Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011 , accessed February 1, 2019.
- ^ Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction ( Memento March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), State Library of Victoria page.
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction ( March 29, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ), State Library of Victoria page.
- ^ CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry ( memento March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), State Library of Victoria page.
- ^ Louis Esson Prize for Drama ( Memento March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), State Library of Victoria page.