Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2011
Winners
Victorian Prize for Literature That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
Prize for Fiction That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
Prize for Non-Fiction An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark, Mark McKenna
Prize for Poetry The Taste of River Water, Cate Kennedy
Prize for Drama Do not go gentle…, Patricia Cornelius
Prize for Writing for Young Adults The Three Loves of Persimmon, Cassandra Golds
People’s Choice Award Into The Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests, Anna Krien
Shortlisted Nominees
Prize for Poetry
- Swallow, Claire Potter
- The Taste of River Water, Cate Kennedy
- This Floating World, Libby Hart
Prize for Fiction
- Five Bells, Gail Jones
- When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald
- The Roving Party, Rohan Wilson
- Bright and Distant Shores, Dominic Smith
- The Amateur Science of Love, Craig Sherborne
- That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
- A Private Empire, Stephen Foster
- Delusions of Gender, Cordelia Fine
- My Blood’s Country, Fiona Capp
- Into the Woods, Anna Krien
- Good Living Street, Tim Bonyhady
- An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark, Mark McKenna
Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher, Doug MacLeod
- Graffiti Moon, Cath Crowley
- The Three Loves of Persimmon, Cassandra Golds
Louis Esson Prize for Drama
- Sappho…in 9 fragments, Jane Montgomery Griffiths
- Do not go gentle…, Patricia Cornelius
- Intimacy, Raimondo Cortese