Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2014
Winners
- People’s Choice Award Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- Young Adult My Life as an Alphabet, Barry Jonsberg
- Drama Savages, Patricia Cornelius
- Poetry Liquid Nitrogen, Jennifer Maiden
- Non-Fiction Forgotten War, Henry Reynolds
- Fiction Coal Creek, Alex Miller
- Victorian Prize for Literature Liquid Nitrogen, Jennifer Maiden
Shortlisted Nominees
Prize for Poetry
- Liquid Nitrogen, Jennifer Maiden
- Autoethnographic, Michael Brennan
- Travelling Through the Family, Brendan Ryan
Judges: Gig Ryan, Lisa Jacobson, Paul Mitchell
Prize for Fiction
- Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
- Coal Creek, Alex Miller
- The Swan Book, Alexis Wright
- Eyrie, Tim Winton
- Questions of Travel, Michelle de Kretser
Judges: Blanche Clark, Tony Birch, Peter Mews
Prize for Non-Fiction
- Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir, Robert Kenny
- White Beech, Germaine Greer
- Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir, Kristina Olsson
- Forgotten War, Henry Reynolds
- Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, Helen Trinca
- On Warne, Gideon Haigh
- Commended: Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari, by Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation.
Judges: Kristin Otto, Kate Darian-Smith, Belle Place, Michael Green, Kaz Cooke
Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- Friday Brown, Vikki Wakefield
- Wildlife, Fiona Wood
- My Life as an Alphabet, Barry Jonsberg
Judges: Anna Burkey, Hilary Harper, Alice Pung
Prize for Drama
- Savages, Patricia Cornelius
- The Secret River, Andrew Bovell
- Medea, Anne-Louise Sarks and Kate Mulvany
Judges: Ailsa Piper, Sian Prior, John Bailey