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| The Victorian Premiers Literary Awards were established in 1985 by John Cain, the Premier of Victoria at that time, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer - distinguished writers and critics who made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture.
In 1997 the administration of the awards was transferred to the State Library of Victoria. This marked a strengthening of the Library's role in developing and promoting literary culture in Victoria and an expansion of the program of events and activities associated with the Awards.
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2009 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction |
The Slap
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Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction |
The Tall Man
Author: Chloe Hooper
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall ... |
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Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction |
The Tall Man
Author: Chloe Hooper
Category: History - Australia & Oceania
Category: True Stories - Crime
In 2004 Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old resident of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Within 45 minutes he was dead. The main suspect was well respected Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley ... |
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10-15 Days
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CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry |
The Golden Bird
Author: Robert Adamson
Category: Poetry - Anthologies
The Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the past four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's f ... |
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7-10 Days
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Prize for Young Adult Fiction |
Something in the World Called Love
Author: Sue Saliba
Category: Childrens Fiction - Love & Romance
When Esma moves into 22 Starling Street, she knows she has come to the right place. A place to become someone new. A place to belong. As the seasons change, she finds herself falling deeper and deeper in love. But not in ... |
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Prize for Writing about Italians in Australi |
Death in the Mountains
Author: Lisa Clifford
Category: True Stories - Crime
Category: True Stories - Crime General
When Australian author and journalist Lisa Clifford moved to Florence to be with her Italian husband, an unsolved murder in his family became part of her life. The more Lisa found out about it, the more intrigued she bec ... |
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Prize for Science Writing |
| The Rise of Animals
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7-10 Days
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2008 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction |
The Spare Room
Author: Helen Garner
Category: Fiction - General
Category: Fiction - Modern & Contemporary
An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis. Isn't that supposed to align the sleeper with the plan ... |
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7-10 Days
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Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction |
The Ferocious Summer
Author: Meredith Hooper
Category: Nature - General
Category: Science - Environmental Science
Antarctica's capacity to create, store and disperse ice is critical to the way our planet functions. But along the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula there has been a 40 per cent decrease in the mean annual sea ice ... |
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7-10 Days
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CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry |
Press Release
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10-15 Days
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Prize for Young Adult Fiction |
Tomorrow All Will be Beautiful
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7-10 Days
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Prize for First Book of History |
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming
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7-10 Days
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Prize for Indigenous Writing |
Anonymous Premonition
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7-10 Days
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Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia |
Head Over Heel
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7-10 Days
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2007 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction |
Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Category: Fiction - General
Category: Fiction - Modern & Contemporary
A portrait of life in the newly established coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, whose members are are the leaders of the Pricklebush people. Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007.; W ... |
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10-15 Days
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Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction |
Voyages to the South Seas
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7-10 Days
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CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry |
Jack
Author: Judy Johnson
Category: Poetry - General
Category: Poetry - Anthologies
One-eyed Captain Jack Falconer is a man with many secrets, and whose hiding place is in a pearling lugger on the Torres Straits. Jack's demons follow him out to sea and rise to the surface just as surley as the pearl she ... |
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Prize for Young Adult Fiction |
Notes from the Teenage Underground
Author: Simmone Howell
Category: Childrens Fiction - General
Taking their anti-social edge one step further, seventeen-year-old Gem and her friends decide to go underground. But in the back of her mind, Gem's worried, and as the weeks draw closer to Christmas appearances start to ... |
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