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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

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