Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2016

This evening in Melbourne the winners of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced.

There was a decent prize pool on offer with each winner receiving $25,000 and each going on to contest the Victorian Prize for Literature worth a further $100,000. There was also a People’s Choice Award worth a further $2,000.

The Winners are as follows:

PRIZE FOR FICTION

The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau (Bloomsbury) – Earlwood, NSW

PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

Something for the Pain by Gerald Murnane (Text Publishing) – Goroke, Vic

PRIZE FOR DRAMA

Broken by Mary Anne Butler (Currency Press) – Rapid Creek, NT

PRIZE FOR POETRY

Crankhandle by Alan Loney (Cordite) – Malvern East, Vic (my review here)

PRIZE FOR WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward (Xoum Publishing) – Brunswick West, Vic

VICTORIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ($100,000)

Broken by Mary Anne Butler (Currency Press) – Rapid Creek, NT

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson (Scribe Publications) – Brunswick, Vic

For my post on all the shortlisted works go here.

I will be back with a review of the shortlisted novel The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin) tomorrow.