2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Winners

The winners of the 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards have been announced.

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes by Danielle Clode

The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
Jack by Judy Johnson

The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
A Single Act by Jane Brodie

The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Notes from the Teenage Underground by Simmone Howell

The Prize for Science Writing
The Silent Deep by Tony Koslow

The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
The Writer in a Time of Terror by Frank Moorhouse

The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
The Tumbler by Chris Thompson

The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
The Ghost Writer by Nick Gadd

The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing About Italians in Australia
Madonna of the Eucalypts by Karen Sparnon

The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Muslim Leader Blames Women for Sex Attacks (plus associated stories) by Richard Kerbaj

Currently Reading

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 The Tango Briefing by Adam Hall
The fifth of Adam Hall's Quiller series from 1973 and probably about his best. More physical than McCarry.

 

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 The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
McCarry's masterful spy thriller from 1974. Paul Christopher investigates the asssassination of John F Kennedy.

 

Recently Read

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 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
The seventh and last book in the series. You get this far and you have to finish it off.

 

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 Why She Loves Him by Wendy James
Short stories from the author of Out of the Silence and The Steele Diaries.

 

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Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Macbride's fifth DS McRae novel - hard to see it getting more gruesome than this.

 

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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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