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Winners Announced for Premier's Literary Awards
2 September 2009
Christos Tsiolkas has scooped the prestigious $30,000 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction for The Slap in the 25th Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island has won the non-fiction category, the $30,000 Nettie Palmer Prize.
The winners of the awards, across 11 categories, were announced by the Hon. John Brumby, Premier of Victoria, at an awards dinner on 1 September.
Other winners of awards this year include:
- Tom Griffith's essay 'We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough', which reflects on the Victorian bushfires
- Luke Davies' 'The Penalty is Death: Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison', about life on death row for two of the Bali Nine
- Sue Saliba's Something in the World Called Love, awarded the Prize for Young Adult Fiction
- Lally Katz, Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, awarded the Louis Esson Prize for Drama.
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer was won by Amy Espeseth for Sufficient Grace, the story of two young girls growing up in rural Wisconsin.
Mr Brumby congratulated the State Library of Victoria, which has administered the awards for the past 12 years.
'In 2010 the administration of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards will pass to the newly created Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, joining a range of initiatives and programs to foster and support writing in Victoria,' he said.
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