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September 23, 2005
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlist 2005
The shortlisted works for the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards have been announced. The winners will be annonuced on October 17. Full details of the list, along with the judges' reports, can be found at the State Library of Victoria website.
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Surrender, Sonya Hartnett
Viking/Penguin
Sixty Lights, Gail Jones
Vintage/Random House
Affection, Ian Townsend
Fourth Estate /Harper Collins
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller
The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Publishing
Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures and Self, Greg Dening
The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Publishing
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev, Robert Dessaix
Picador/Pan Macmillan
Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law, Helen Garner
Picador/Pan Macmillan
Bypass: The Story of a Road, Michael McGirr
Picador/Pan Macmillan
The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
<More or Less Than>1-100, MTC Cronin
Shearsman Books
Doppler Effect, John Kinsella
Salt Publishing
Firelick, Morgan Yasbincek
Fremantle Arts Centre Press
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
The Frail Man, Anthony Crowley
Playbox /Currency
Blowback, David Pledger
Not Yet, It’s Difficult
The Spook, Melissa Reeves
Company B. Belvoir St.
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
The Running Man, Michael Gerard Bauer
Omnibus Books
Secret Scribbled Notebooks, Joanne Horniman
Allen & Unwin
So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld
Penguin Books Australia
The Prize for Science Writing
The Land Of Flowers: An Australian Environment on the Brink, Irene Cunningham
Otford Press
Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science, Elizabeth Finkel
ABC Books
Astonishing Animals, Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
Text Publishing
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Living in a Material World, Randa Abdel-Fattah
Griffith Review
'Kangaroo Court': Family Law in Australia, John Hirst
'Quarterly Essay'
Black Inc
Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq, Paul McGeogh
'Quarterly Essay'
Black Inc
The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Revealing Gallipoli, Wain Fimeri
ABC Television
Little Fish, Jacquelin Perske
Porchlight FIlms
Look Both Ways, Sarah Watt
Hibiscus Films
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
I Hate Martin Amis et al, Peter Barry
'Days Like Televisi...Days Like Television' and Other Stories, James Hawthorne
The Timeball Philosophers, Anita Punton
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
Martino's Story, Lyn Chatham
Peter Bruno
Per l'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration, Julia Church
The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing
A Spoonful of Zucchero, Kate Taylor
Little Red Apple Publishing
Posted by larrikin at September 23, 2005 01:34 PM