Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Winners & Shortlist 2009
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Winner
The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)
Shortlist
- The Pages
Murray Bail (Text Publishing)
- Dog Boy
Eva Hornung (Text Publishing)
- The Boat
Nam Le (Penguin)
- The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)
- Breath
Tim Winton (Penguin)
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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Winner
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper (Hamish Hamilton)
Shortlist
- The City's Outback
Gillian Cowlishaw (UNSW Press)
- Arabesques
Robert Dessaix (Picador)
- The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper (Hamish Hamilton)
- House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroger-Mann
Evelyn Juers (Giramondo Publishing)
- Darwin's Armada
Iain McCalman (Viking)
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The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
Winner
The Golden Bird
Robert Adamson (Black Inc)
Shortlist
- Fishing in the Devonian
Carol Jenkins (Puncher and Wattman)
- The Other Way Out
Bronwyn Lea (Giramondo Publishing)
- The Golden Bird
Robert Adamson (Black Inc)
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The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Winner
Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd
Lally Katz (Malthouse Theatre)
Shortlist
- Realism
Paul Galloway (Melbourne Theatre Company/Currency Press)
- The Modern International Dead
Damien Millar (Griffin Theatre Company/Currency Press)
- Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd
Lally Katz (Malthouse Theatre
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The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Winner
Something in the World Called Love
Sue Saliba (Penguin)
Shortlist
- The Two Pearls of Wisdom
Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)
- The Beginner's Guide to Living
Lia Hills (Text Publishing)
- Something in the World Called Love
Sue Saliba (Penguin)
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The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Winner
'We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough'
Tom Griffiths (Inside Story)
Shortlist
- 'We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough'
Tom Griffiths (Inside Story)
- 'The Henson Case'
David Marr (Text Publishing)
- 'Ratbags at the Gates'
Helen O'Neil (Griffith Review)
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The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
Winner
Death in the Mountains
Lisa Clifford (Macmillan)
Shortlist
- Neither Here nor There: Italians and Swiss-Italians on the Walhalla Goldfield 1865-1915
Annamaria Davine (Italian Australian Institute)
- Death in the Mountains
Lisa Clifford (Macmillan)
- And Be Home Before Dark
Roland Rocchiccioli (Hardie Grant Books)
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The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Winner
'The Penalty is Death: Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison'
Luke Davies (The Monthly)
Shortlist
- 'The Guards' Story'
Peter Cronau and Quentin McDermott (Four Corners, ABC Television)
- 'The Penalty is Death: Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison'
Luke Davies (The Monthly)
- 'A Week in Kinglake'
Michael Vincent (ABC Radio)
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The Prize for Best Music Theatre Script
Winner
Shane Warne the Musical
Eddie Perfect (Token Events)
Shortlist
- Poor Boy
Matt Cameron and Tim Finn (Melbourne Theatre Company/Currency Press)
- Shane Warne The Musical
Eddie Perfect (Token Events)
- Metro Street
Matthew Robinson (Arts Asia Pacific, Power Arts and STCSA)
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The Prize for Science Writing
Winner
The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia
Patricia Vickers-Rich (JHU Press)
Shortlist
- Pasteur's Gambit
Stephen Dando-Collins (Vintage)
- Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
David Spratt and Philip Sutton (Scribe)
- The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia
Patricia Vickers-Rich (JHU Press)
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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Winner
'Sufficient Grace'
Amy Espeseth
Shortlist
- 'Sufficient Grace'
Amy Espeseth
- 'Like Being a Wife'
Catherine Harris
- 'The Sunlit Zone'
Lisa Jacobson
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