The Melbourne Prize for Literature is part of the annual Melbourne Prize cycle - the other prizes being for Urban Sculpture and Music. Each of these takes a turn so the Literature Prize comes around every three years.
There are three categories of prize awarded under the Literature award, these being:
Melbourne Prize for Literature - basically a lifetime achievement award for a Victorian writer
Best Writing Award - for a one-off piece of writing
Civic Choice Award - winner of a public choice
Entries are now open for these prizes (they close July 16) and the finalists will be exhibited in Federation Square in Melbourne between November 5 and 19 2012.
Previous winners of the main award are: Helen Garner in 2006, and Gerald Murnane in 2009.
There are three categories of prize awarded under the Literature award, these being:
Melbourne Prize for Literature - basically a lifetime achievement award for a Victorian writer
Best Writing Award - for a one-off piece of writing
Civic Choice Award - winner of a public choice
Entries are now open for these prizes (they close July 16) and the finalists will be exhibited in Federation Square in Melbourne between November 5 and 19 2012.
Previous winners of the main award are: Helen Garner in 2006, and Gerald Murnane in 2009.
