2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Victorian Prize for Literature 
The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

People’s Choice Award 
National Interest by Aidan Fennessy

Young Adult 
The Shadow Girl by John Larkin

Drama 
A Golem Story by Lally Katz

Poetry 
Armour by John Kinsella

Non-Fiction 
The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

Fiction 
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears

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The Shortlist

POETRY

Southern Barbarians by John Mateer

Vishvarupa by Michelle Cahill

Armour by John Kinsella

FICTION

Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears

A History of Books by Gerald Murnane

The Cook by Wayne Macauley

Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany

All That I Am by Anna Funder

Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse

NON-FICTION

The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys

Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung

Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy

1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia by James Boyce

True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall

YOUNG ADULTS

All I Ever Wanted by Vikki Wakefield

The Shadow Girl byJohn Larkin

The Shiny Guys by Doug MacLeod

DRAMA

National Interest by Aidan Fennessy

A Golem Story by Lally Katz

Boxman by Daniel Keene

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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.