The winners of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award have been announced.
The joint winners are:
Utopian Man, by Lisa Lang
and
Night Street, by Kristel Thornell
This award is for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian writer under the age of 35. It carries prize-money of $A20,000 (which will be shared this year) and guarantees publication by Allen & Unwin within the next 12 months. Previous winners of the award have included: Tim Winton, Brian Castro, Kate Grenville, Mandy Sayer and Andrew McGahan. I've read a number of the winners and can safely say they were all worth reading.
