The winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night.
The winners are:
Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)
Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island - Chloe Hooper (Hamish Hamilton)
C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
The Golden Bird - Robert Adamson (Black Inc)
Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd - Lally Katz (Malthouse Theatre)
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Something in the World Called Love - Sue Saliba (Penguin)
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Death in the Mountains - Lisa Clifford (Macmillan)
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
The Penalty is Death: Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison - Luke Davies (The Monthly)
The Prize for Best Music Theatre Script
Shane Warne The Musical - Eddie Perfect (Token Events)
The Prize for Science Writing
The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia - Patricia Vickers-Rich (JHU Press)
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Sufficient Grace - Amy Espeseth
You can read the full list of the shortlisted works here.
