2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Victorian Prize for Literature 
Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden

People’s Choice Award 
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Young Adult 
My Life as an Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg

Drama 
Savages by Patricia Cornelius

Poetry 
Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden

Non-Fiction 
Forgotten War by Henry Reynolds

Fiction 
Coal Creek by Alex Miller

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The Shortlist

POETRY

Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden

Autoethnographic by Michael Brennan

Travelling Through the Family by Brendan Ryan

FICTION

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Coal Creek by Alex Miller

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright

Eyrie by Tim Winton

Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser

NON-FICTION

Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir by Robert Kenny

White Beech by Germaine Greer

Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson

Forgotten War by Henry Reynolds

Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca

On Warne by Gideon Haigh

WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield

Wildlife by Fiona Wood

My Life as an Alphabet by Barry Jonsberg

DRAMA

Savages by Patricia Cornelius

The Secret River by Andrew Bovell

Medea by Anne-Louise Sarks and Kate Mulvany

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Highly Commended

Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari, by Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation

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The Judges

POETRY

Gig Ryan, Lisa Jacobson, Paul Mitchell

FICTION

Blanche Clark, Tony Birch, Peter Mews

NON-FICTION

Kristin Otto, Kate Darian-Smith, Belle Place, Michael Green, Kaz Cooke

WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Anna Burkey, Hilary Harper, Alice Pung

DRAMA

 Ailsa Piper, Sian Prior, John Bailey

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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.