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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2012

Winners

  • People’s Choice Award National Interest, Aidan Fennessy
  • Young Adult The Shadow Girl, John Larkin
  • Drama A Golem Story, Lally Katz
  • Poetry Armour, John Kinsella
  • Non-Fiction The Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage
  • Fiction Foal’s Bread, Gillian Mears
  • Victorian Prize for Literature The Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage

Shortlisted Nominees

Prize for Poetry

  • Southern Barbarians, John Mateer
  • Vishvarupa, Michelle Cahill
  • Armour, John Kinsella

Prize for Fiction

  • Foal’s Bread, Gillian Mears
  • A History of Books, Gerald Murnane
  • The Cook, Wayne Macauley
  • Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany
  • All That I Am, Anna Funder
  • Cold Light, Frank Moorhouse

Prize for Non-Fiction

  • The Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage
  • The Hall of Uselessness, Simon Leys
  • Her Father’s Daughter, Alice Pung
  • Adelaide, Kerryn Goldsworthy
  • 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia, James Boyce
  • True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack, Brenda Niall

Prize for Writing for Young Adults

  • All I Ever Wanted, Vikki Wakefield
  • The Shadow Girl, John Larkin
  • The Shiny Guys, Doug MacLeod

Prize for Drama

  • National Interest, Aidan Fennessy
  • A Golem Story, Lally Katz
  • Boxman, Daniel Keene

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