2006 Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced
Date: September 6, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
Winners of the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been annonced. The awards, established in 1985, are given by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia’s publishing industry.
The winners of this year’s awards are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Theft: A love Story by Peter Carey (Knopf/Random House)
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis (National Gallery of Australia)
The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter (University of Queensland Press)
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon by Stephen Sewell (Adelaide Festival)
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Theodora’s Gift by Ursula Dubosarsky (Penguin Books Australia)
The Prize for a First Book of History
Humain Remains by Helen MacDonald (Melbourne University Publishing)
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Is the Media Asleep? from Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? by David Marr (Black Inc)
The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Noise by Matthew Saville (Retroactive Films)
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch (University of Queensland Press)
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Rohypnol by Andrew Hutchinson
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
When in Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita by Penelope Green (Hachette Livre Australia)
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Information Idol: How Google is Making Us Stupid by Gideon Haigh (The Monthly)
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper (The Monthly)
The list of winners, as well as links to judges’ reports, can be found at the State Library of Victoria website
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