The winners of the Victorian Literary Awards have been announced. Australia’s single richest literary prize, The Victorian Prize for Literature, worth 100,000, has been won by Grace Yee for her poetry collection Chinese Fish.
The winners in each the categories are:
Victorian Prize for Literature ($100,000)
Chinese Fish by Grace Ye
Fiction ($25,000)
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko – READ A BOOK REVIEW
Nonfiction ($25,000)
- Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity by Ellen van Neerven,
Indigenous writing ($25,000)
- Close to the Subject: Selected works by Daniel Browning
Children’s literature ($25,000)
- Ghost Book by Remy Lai
Drama ($25,000)
The Jungle and the Sea by S Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack
Poetry ($25,000)
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
Writing for young adults ($25,000)
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson – READ A BOOK REVIEW
Unpublished manuscript ($15,000)
‘Panajachel’ by Rachel Morton
People’s choice award ($2000)
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein.
Read book review of last year’s Victorian Prize for Literature winner, Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au.
