The winners of the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced a week or so back - I missed the announcement as I was travelling. You can get full details of the winners, along with the judges' reports, at the State Library of Victoria's website.
The shortlisted works are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey [Knopf/Random House]
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography, Helen Ennis [National Gallery of Australia]
The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
Urban Myths: 210 Poems, John Tranter [University of Queensland Press]
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon, Stephen Sewell [Adelaide Festival]
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Theodora's Gift, Ursula Dubosarsky [Penguin]
The Prize for a First Book of History
Human Remains, Helen MacDonald [Melbourne University Press]
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Is the Media Asleep?, David Marr from "Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia?" [Black Inc]
The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Noise, Matthew Saville [Retroactive Films]
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Swallow the Air, Tara June Winch [University of Queensland Press]
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Rohypnol, Andrew Hutchinson
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
When in Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita, Penelope Green [Hachette Livre Australia]
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Information idol - How Google is Making Us Stupid, Gideon Haigh [The Monthly]
The Tall Man, Chloe Hooper [The Monthly]
