2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

The winners of the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night.

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Surrender, Sonya Hartnett
Viking/Penguin

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev, Robert Dessaix
Picador/Pan Macmillan

The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
<More or Less Than>1-100, MTC Cronin
Shearsman Books

The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
The Spook, Melissa Reeves
Company B. Belvoir St.

The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld
Penguin Books Australia

The Prize for Science Writing
Astonishing Animals, Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
Text Publishing

The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Living in a Material World, Randa Abdel-Fattah
Griffith Review

The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Revealing Gallipoli, Wain Fimeri
ABC Television

The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
I Hate Martin Amis et al, Peter Barry

The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
A Spoonful of Zucchero, Kate Taylor
Little Red Apple Publishing

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State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

 

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

 

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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

 

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Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

 

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The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

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