Birch wins Melbourne Prize for Literature Civic Choice Award

Monday, 26 November 2012 Books+Publishing

Tony Birch has won this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature Civic Choice Award for his novel Blood (UQP).

Birch was named as the recipient of the $5000 award on 23 November. Members of the public voted for the award on the Melbourne Prize website and at a public exhibition at Federation Square during November.

As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, Blood was one of five books shortlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award.

The finalists for the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Best Writing Award were eligible for the Civic Choice Award, which increased in prize money from $2000 to $5000 this year. Birch was one of 10 finalists for the $30,000 Best Writing Award, which was awarded to Craig Sherborne for The Amateur Science of Love (Text). Alex Miller won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature.

The next Melbourne Prize for Literature will be awarded in 2015. For more information about the prize, click here.

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