2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

The 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced tonight.

It was an epic fail for ANZ LitLovers: the only book I’d read and reviewed was by Taboo by Kim Scott. which won the Prize for Indigenous Writing.

Victorian Prize for Literature ($100,000) and Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Non-Fiction,($25,2000)
No Friend But the Mountain: Writing from Manus Prison, by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian

(Ironically, I’m writing this post late at night, because I’ve just been to see a great play called Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. There are two more performances in Melbourne, and some tickets are still available.  Get there if you can.)

Prize for Fiction
The Madonna of the Mountains by Elise Valmorbida

Prize for Drama
The Almighty Sometimes by Kendall Feaver

Prize for Poetry
Tilt by Kate Lilley’s

Prize for Writing for Young Adults
Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Prize…