Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2008

The prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Awards will be announced at a dinner at Zinc in Federation Square on Monday 1 September. The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were established in 1985 by John Cain, the Premier of Victoria at that time, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer. John Cain is now President of the Library Board of Victoria.

These awards have grown greatly since the first few award categories in 1985. The categories for the 2008 awards are as follows:

2008 Awards

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
The Prize for a First Book of History
The Prize for Indigenous Writing
The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
The Prize for Best Music Theatre Script
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia

To see all the titles which are shortlisted for 2008, read here.