2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Winners of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Victorian Prize for Literature
Broken by Mary Anne Butler (Currency Press)
Fiction
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau (Bloomsbury)
Non-fiction
Something For The Pain by Gerald Murnane (Text Publishing)
Drama
Broken by Mary Anne Butler (Currency Press)
Poetry
Crankhandle by Alan Loney (Cordite)
Writing for Young Adults
Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward (Xoum Publishing)
Unpublished Manuscript
Melanie Cheng
Highly Commended
FICTION
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight (Random House Australia)
The Mothers by Rod Jones (Text Publishing)
Black Rock White City by A.S. Patrić (Transit Lounge Publishing)
NON-FICTION
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami (Hardie Grant Books)
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright (Giramondo Publishing)
DRAMA
I am a Miracle by Declan Greene
POETRY
Happiness by Martin Harrison (UWA Publishing)
WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison (Magabala Books)
The Judges
FICTION
Thuy On, Jo Case, Toni Jordan (convenor)
NON-FICTION
Sam Cooney, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Jonathan Green, Sharon Mullins, Robyn Annear (convenor)
DRAMA
Tom Gutteridge, Lorin Clarke, David Ryding (convenor)
POETRY
Jacinta Le Plastrier, Bonny Cassidy, Cassandra Atherton (convenor)
WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Emily Gale, Jess Tran, Bec Kavanagh (convenor)
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
Kate Callingham, Jennifer Down, Maxine Beneba Clarke
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.
