The winners of the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night.
The winners are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Truth, Peter Temple, Text Publishing
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life, Brenda Walker, Penguin Group Australia
The Young Adult Fiction Prize
Raw Blue, Kirsty Eagar, Penguin Group Australia
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
Possession, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Five Islands Press
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
And No More Shall We Part, Tom Holloway, A Bit Of Argy Bargy
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Seeing Truganini, David Hansen, Australian Book Review
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
House of Sticks, Peggy Frew
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Who Killed Mr Ward?, Janine Cohen and Liz Jackson, Four Corners, ABC Television
The Prize for First Book of History
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939, Clare Corbould, Harvard University Press
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Legacy, Larissa Behrendt, University of Queensland Press
