2011 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Victorian Prize for Literature 
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

Prize for Fiction 
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

Prize for Non-Fiction 
An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna

Prize for Poetry 
The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy

Prize for Drama 
Do not go gentle… by Patricia Cornelius

Prize for Writing for Young Adults 
The Three Loves of Persimmon by Cassandra Golds

People’s Choice Award 
Into The Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests by Anna Krien

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The Shortlist

POETRY

Swallow by Claire Potter

The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy

This Floating World by Libby Hart

FICTION

Five Bells by Gail Jones

When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald

The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson

Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith

The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne

That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

NON-FICTION

A Private Empire by Stephen Foster

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

My Blood’s Country by Fiona Capp

Into the Woods by Anna Krien

Good Living Street by Tim Bonyhady

An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna

YOUNG ADULTS

The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher by Doug MacLeod

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

The Three Loves of Persimmon by Cassandra Golds

DRAMA

Sappho…in 9 fragments by Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Do not go gentle… by Patricia Cornelius

Intimacy by Raimondo Cortese

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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievement by Australian writers. The awards are administered by the Wheeler Centre on behalf of the Premier of Victoria.