Congratulations to the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne for Victorian Premier's Literature Awards on Tuesday 6th September. The following authors were successful in receiving awards for their work, including Kim Scott’s novel That Deadman Dance took out the inaugural Victorian Prize for Literature The other category winners were Cate Kennedy’s The Taste of River Water for poetry.
Mark McKenna’s An Eye for Eternity for non-fiction
Patricia Cornelius' Do not go gentle… for drama
Cassandra Golds' The Three Loves of Persimmon for young adult fiction
Each category winner receives $25,000, while the winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature wins an additional $100,000, making it the richest literary prize in the country.
