Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.
The shortlisted titles are:
Fiction
- Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text)
- Ironbark (Jay Carmichael, Scribe)
- The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese (Moreno Giovannoni, Black Inc.)
- The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text)
- Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
- The Madonna of the Mountains (Elise Valmorbida, Faber)
Nonfiction
- No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Behrouz Boochani, Picador)
- Staying: A Memoir (Jessie Cole, Text)
- The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton)
- Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U)
- Miss Ex-Yugoslavia (Sofija Stefanovic, Viking)
- Axiomatic (Maria Tumarkin, Brow Books)
Poetry
- Flood Damages (Eunice Andrada, Giramondo)
- Tilt (Kate Lilley, Vagabond Press)
- Milk Teeth (Rae White, UQP)
Young adult
- Amelia Westlake (Erin Gough, Hardie Grant Egmont)
- Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)
- Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U)
Prize for Indigenous writing
- Common People (Tony Birch, UQP)
- Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
- Taboo (Kim Scott, Picador)
- Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
Drama
- The Almighty Sometimes (Kendall Feaver, Currency Press, in association with Griffin Theatre Company)
- Going Down (Michele Lee, Malthouse Theatre)
- Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Ursula Yovich & Alana Valentine, Currency Press, in association with Belvoir)
Prize for an unpublished manuscript
- ‘Wedding Cake Island’ (John Byron)
- ‘Kokomo’ (Victoria Hannan)
- ‘Frontier Sport’ (Wayne Marshall).
Judges also highly commended a number of titles across all categories.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 31 January 2019. The winners in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, young adult, and Indigenous writing each receive $25,000, while the winner of the unpublished manuscript prize receives $15,000. All seven of the award categories go on to contest the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature. A people’s choice award, worth $2000, will also be announced on the night.
Last year, Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (Text).
For more information about the award, see the Wheeler Centre website.
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