Victorian Premier's Literary Award

Given by Wheeler Centre

Other Names: C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victoria Premier's Literary Award, Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults
344 Works / 360 Items 83,390 Books 3,897 Reviews ½ 3.8
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary show more awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Vance Palmer show less
Stages:
All, Winner (143), Shortlist (191), Nominee (65), No Stage (1)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (28), 2023 (10), 2022 (2), 2021 (21), 2020 (18), 2019 (23), 2018 (19), 2017 (17), 2016 (23), 2015 (16), 2014 (26), 2012 (19), 2011 (19), 2010 (12), 2009 (11), 2008 (9), 2007 (8), 2006 (6), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (6), 2002 (5), 2001 (3), 2000 (3), 1999 (3), 1998 (4), 1997 (4), 1996 (4), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (2), 1992 (4), 1991 (3), 1990 (2), 1989 (2), 1988 (3), 1987 (2), 1986 (3), 1985 (4)

Winner 143

WorkCategoryYear
Ghost Book by Remy LaiAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature2024
Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel BrowningIndigenous Writing2024
Personal Score by Ellen van NeervenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Chinese Fish by Grace YeePoetry2024
Edenglassie by Melissa LucashenkoVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Chinese Fish by Grace YeeVictorian Prize for Literature & Fiction2024
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili WilkinsonYoung Adults2024
The Upwelling by Lystra RoseIndigenous Writing2023
Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance by Eda GunaydinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2023
Astronomy by Karlie NoonPeople's Choice2023
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan GaoPoetry2023
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica AuVictorian Prize for Literature & Fiction2023
We Who Hunt the Hollow by Kate MurrayYoung Adults2023
Tiger Daughter by Rebecca LimPeople's Choice2022
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie RoachIndigenous Writing2021
Body Count by Paddy ManningNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Witness by Louise MilliganPeople's Choice2021
Case Notes by David StavangerPoetry2021
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKayVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath MooreYoung Adults2021
The Crystal Messenger by Pham Thi HoaiThe Dinny O'Hearn Prize2020
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina ThompsonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk GreenPoetry2020
Damascus by Christos TsiolkasVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
How It Feels to Float by Helena FoxYoung Adults2020
Taboo by Kim ScottIndigenous Writing2019
No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz BoochaniNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Eggshell Skull by Bri LeePeople's Choice2019
Tilt by Kate LilleyPoetry2019
The Madonna of the Mountains: A Novel by Elise ValmorbidaVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin KwaymullinaYoung Adults2019
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah KrasnosteinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Ida by Alison EvansPeople's Choice2018
Argosy by Bella LiPoetry2018
Australia Day by Melanie ChengVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
Living on Hope Street by Demet DivarorenYoung Adults2018
Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru by Madeline GleesonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba ClarkePoetry2017
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia BlainVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
When Michael Met Mina by Randa Abdel-FattahYoung Adults2017
Ghost River by Tony BirchIndigenous Writing2016
Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf by Gerald MurnaneNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2016
Crankhandle (Notebooks) by Alan LoneyPoetry2016
The Dry by Jane HarperUnpublished Manuscript2016
The World without Us by Mireille JuchauVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane WardYoung Adults2016
The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation by Alan AtkinsonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2015
Where Song Began by Tim LowPeople's Choice2015
The Beautiful Anxiety by Jill JonesPoetry2015
To Name Those Lost by Rohan WilsonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
Protected by Claire ZornYoung Adults2015
Mullumbimby by Melissa LucashenkoIndigenous Writing2014
Forgotten War by Henry ReynoldsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Burial Rites by Hannah KentPeople's Choice2014
Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer MaidenPoetry2014
Coal Creek by Alex MillerVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee by Barry JonsbergYoung Adults2014
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill GammageNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Armour by John KinsellaPoetry2012
The Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionUnpublished Manuscript2012
Foal's Bread by Gillian MearsVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
The Shadow Girl by John LarkinYoung Adults2012
An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKennaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Into the Woods: the Battle for Tasmania's Forests by Anna KrienPeople's Choice2011
The Taste of River Water by Cate KennedyPoetry2011
That Deadman Dance by Kim ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
The Three Loves of Persimmon by Cassandra GoldsYoung Adults2011
Legacy by Larissa BehrendtIndigenous Writing2010
Reading by moonlight : how books saved a life by Brenda WalkerNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2010
Truth by Peter TempleVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
Raw Blue by Kirsty EagarYoung Adults2010
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee by Chloe HooperNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2009
The Slap by Christos TsiolkasVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
Something in the World Called Love by Sue SalibaYoung Adults2009
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith HooperNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2008
The Spare Room by Helen GarnerVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2008
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Brigid LowryYoung Adults2008
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes by Danielle ClodeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2007
Carpentaria by Alexis WrightVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2007
Notes from the Teenage Underground by Simmone HowellYoung Adults2007
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen EnnisNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2006
Theft: A Love Story by Peter CareyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2006
Theodoras Gift by Ursula DubosarskyYoung Adults2006
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert DessaixNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2005
Surrender by Sonya HartnettVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2005
So Yesterday by Scott WesterfeldYoung Adults2005
Car wars : how the car won our hearts and conquered our cities by Graeme DavisonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2004
Slow Water by Annamarie JagoseVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2004
Black Juice by Margo LanaganYoung Adults2004
Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry HillNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2003
Shanghai Dancing by Brian CastroVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2003
Wildlight: A Journey by David MetzenthenYoung Adults2003
The Boyds : a family biography by Brenda NiallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2002
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard FlanaganVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2002
Njunjul the Sun by Meme McDonaldYoung Adults2002
Broken Circles by Anna HaebichNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter CareyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2001
Touch Me by James MoloneyYoung Adults2001
The White by Adrian CaesarNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2000
Out of Ireland by Christopher KochVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2000
Killing Aurora by Helen BarnesYoung Adults2000
M : The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter RobbNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1999
Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonaldVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1999
Deadly, Unna? by Phillip GwynneYoung Adults1999
Romulus, My Father by Raimond GaitaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1998
Night Train by Judith ClarkeSchaeffer Pen Prize for Young Adults1998
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard FlanaganVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1998
Midnight In Sicily by Peter RobbNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1997
Pagan's Scribe by Catherine JinksSchaeffer Pen Prize for Young Adults1997
The Drowner by Robert DreweVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1997
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Studies in Australian History) by Tom GriffithsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1996
Sleeping Dogs by Sonya HartnettSchaeffer Pen Prize for Young Adults1996
Camille's Bread by Amanda LohreyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1996
Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer (Miegunyah Press Series) by Brenda NiallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1995
Dark Places by Kate GrenvilleVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1995
Maidenhome by Ding XiaoqiThe Dinny O'Hearn Prize1994
Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of L'Oiseau-Lyre 1884-1962 (Miegunyah Press) by Jim DavidsonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1994
What I Have Written: A Novel by John A. ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1994
Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty by Greg DeningNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1993
After China by Brian CastroVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1993
The House Guest by Eleanor NilssonAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature1992
The Death of Napoleon by Simon LeysThe Dinny O'Hearn Prize1992
Patrick White: A Life by David MarrNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1992
Double-Wolf by Brian CastroVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1992
Diving for Pearls (Current Theatre) by Katherine ThomsonLouis Esson Prize for Drama1991
Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958 by Dorothy HewettNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1991
Still Murder by Finola MoorheadVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1991
Sixpenny Soldier (Imprint) by Roland Griffiths-MarshNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1990
Oceana Fine by Tom FloodVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1990
Paradise Found and Lost by O. H. K. SpateNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1989
Captivity Captive by Rodney HallVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1989
So Much to Tell You by John MarsdenAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature1988
Louisa by Brian MatthewsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1988
Holden's Performance by Murray BailVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1988
Political essays by Hugh StrettonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1987
Second Sight by Janine BurkeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1987
St Clair: Three Narratives by John A. ScottC. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry1986
Evil Angels by John BrysonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1986
Illywhacker by Peter CareyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1986
The three fates & other poems by Rosemary DobsonC. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry1985
Your shadow : (poems 1980-83) by Kevin HartC. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry1985
The boy Adeodatus : the portrait of a lucky young bastard by Bernard SmithNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction1985
Antipodes by David MaloufVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1985

Shortlist 191

WorkCategoryYear
It's the Sound of the Thing by Maxine Beneba ClarkeAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature2024
Ghost Book by Remy LaiAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature2024
Who’s Afraid of the Light? by Anna McGregorAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature2024
Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel BrowningIndigenous Writing2024
Firelight by John MorrisseyIndigenous Writing2024
Loaded by Christos TsiolkasLouis Esson Prize for Drama2024
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris KneenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony LoewensteinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Killing for Country: A Family Story by David MarrNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris MastersNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders by Jordana SilversteinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Chinese Fish by Grace YeePoetry2024
Only Sound Remains by Hossein AsgariVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Serengotti by Eugen BaconVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Wall by Jen CraigVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Edenglassie by Melissa LucashenkoVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte WoodVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei YuVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena FoxYoung Adults2024
We Could Be Something by Will KostakisYoung Adults2024
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili WilkinsonYoung Adults2024
The Signal Line by Brendan ColleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
This Devastating Fever by Sophie CunninghamVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
The Lovers by Yumna KassabVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla RosaVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
After Story by Larissa BehrendtVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2022
Kindred by Kirli SaundersIndigenous Writing2021
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi SimpsonIndigenous Writing2021
Where The Fruit Falls by Karen WyldIndigenous Writing2021
Show Me Where it Hurts by Kylie MaslenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Witness by Louise MilliganNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Songlines: The Power and Promise by Margo NealeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Blueberries by Ellena SavageNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Ask Me About The Future by Rebecca JessenPoetry2021
Throat by Ellen van NeervenPoetry2021
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKayVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard FlanaganVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
Our Shadows by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
The Coconut Children by Vivian PhamVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
The F Team by Rawah ArjaYoung Adults2021
Where We Begin by Christie NiemanYoung Adults2021
Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay'wu Group of WomenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
The Girls by Chloe HigginsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess HillNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'SheaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie RoachNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Yuiquimbiang by Louise CrispPoetry2020
Birth plan by L. K. HoltPoetry2020
The House of Youssef by Yumna KassabVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
Act of Grace by Anna KrienVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
Simpson Returns by Wayne MacauleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
The Yield by Tara June WinchVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
Invisible Boys by Holden SheppardYoung Adults2020
This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki WakefieldYoung Adults2020
Common People by Tony BirchIndigenous Writing2019
Too Much Lip by Melissa LucashenkoIndigenous Writing2019
Blakwork by Alison WhittakerIndigenous Writing2019
Staying : a memoir by Jessie ColeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
The Arsonist by Chloe HooperNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Eggshell Skull by Bri LeeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir by Sofija StefanovicNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Axiomatic by Maria TumarkinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Flood Damages by Eunice AndradaPoetry2019
Milk Teeth (UQP Poetry Series) by Rae WhitePoetry2019
Flames by Robbie ArnottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
Ironbark by Jay CarmichaelVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese by Moreno GiovannoniVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
Too Much Lip by Melissa LucashenkoVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
Between Us by Clare AtkinsYoung Adults2019
Amelia Westlake by Erin GoughYoung Adults2019
The Museum of Words: a memoir of language, writing, and mortality by Georgia BlainNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-AdamsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
For a Girl: A true story of secrets, motherhood and hope by Mary-Rose MacCollNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff SparrowNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth by Alexis WrightNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
The metronome by Jennifer MaidenPoetry2018
Redactor by Eddie PatersonPoetry2018
A New England Affair by Steven CarrollVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
The Life to Come by Michelle De KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
The Choke by Sofie LagunaVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
The Restorer by Michael SalaVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
Taboo by Kim ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
Ida by Alison EvansYoung Adults2018
Because of You by Pip HarryYoung Adults2018
Songs of a War Boy: The bestselling biography of Deng Adut - a child soldier, refugee and man of hope by Deng Thiak AdutNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba ClarkeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah FergusonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
Position Doubtful: mapping landscapes and memories by Kim MahoodNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The fighter : a true story by Arnold ZableNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
Painting red orchids by Eileen ChongPoetry2017
The Healing Party by Micheline LeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
Wood Green by Sean RabinVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
Waiting by Philip SalomVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock SerongVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth WoollettVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
The Bone Sparrow by Zana FraillonYoung Adults2017
The Other Side of Summer by Emily GaleYoung Adults2017
Inside My Mother by Ali Cobby EckermannIndigenous Writing2016
Heat and Light (David Unaipon Award Winners Series) by Ellen van NeervenIndigenous Writing2016
Fever of Animals by Miles AllinsonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett DaylightVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
The Other Side of the World by Stephanie BishopVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Clade by James BradleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Forever young by Steven CarrollVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
The Mothers by Rod JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Black Rock White City by A. S. PatrićVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte WoodVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
A Single Stone by Meg McKinlayYoung Adults2016
Sister Heart by Sally MorganYoung Adults2016
Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen DoveyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
Golden Boys by Sonya HartnettVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
The Snow Kimono by Mark HenshawVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
Demons by Wayne MacauleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
Razorhurst by Justine LarbalestierYoung Adults2015
The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn MoriartyYoung Adults2015
The Promise by Tony BirchIndigenous Writing2014
Mogwie Idan: Stories of the land by Lionel George FogartyIndigenous Writing2014
Dark Emu by Bruce PascoeIndigenous Writing2014
Calypso Summer by Jared ThomasIndigenous Writing2014
The Swan Book by Alexis WrightIndigenous Writing2014
White Beech: The Rainforest Years by Germaine GreerNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
On Warne by Gideon HaighNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Gardens of fire : an investigative memoir by Robert KennyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Boy, Lost by Kristina OlssonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen TrincaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Traditional Healers of the Central DesertNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Travelling through the Family by Brendan RyanPoetry2014
Autoethnographic by Michael BrennanPoetry2014
Questions of Travel by Michelle De KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
Burial Rites by Hannah KentVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
Eyrie by Tim WintonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
The Swan Book by Alexis WrightVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
Friday Brown by Vikki WakefieldYoung Adults2014
Wildlife by Fiona WoodYoung Adults2014
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James BoyceNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Adelaide by Kerryn GoldsworthyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
The Hall of Uselessness by Simon LeysNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda NiallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Her Father's Daughter by Alice PungNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Vishvarupa by Michelle CahillPoetry2012
Southern Barbarians by John MateerPoetry2012
All That I Am by Anna FunderVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
The Cook by Wayne MacauleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
Cold Light by Frank MoorhouseVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
A History of Books by Gerald MurnaneVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
Mateship With Birds by Carrie TiffanyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
The Shiny Guys by Doug MacLeodYoung Adults2012
All I Ever Wanted by Vikki WakefieldYoung Adults2012
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim BonyhadyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
My Blood's Country: A Journey Through the Landscape that Inspired Judith Wright's Poetry by Fiona CappNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia FineNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Private Empire by Stephen FosterNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Into the Woods: the Battle for Tasmania's Forests by Anna KrienNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
This Floating World by Libby HartPoetry2011
Swallow by Claire PotterPoetry2011
Five Bells by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
When Colts Ran by Roger McDonaldVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
The Amateur Science of Love by Craig SherborneVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic SmithVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
The Roving Party by Rohan WilsonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
Graffiti Moon by Cath CrowleyYoung Adults2011
The life of a teenage body-snatcher by Doug MacLeodYoung Adults2011
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter CareyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
The Bath Fugues by Brian CastroVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
Jasper Jones by Craig SilveyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
The Pages by Murray BailVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
Dog Boy by Eva HornungVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
The Boat by Nam LeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
Breath by Tim WintonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2008
The Lost Dog by Michelle de KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2008
The Time We Have Taken by Steven CarrollVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2007
Feather Man by Rhyll McMasterVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2007
Slow Man by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2006
The Secret River by Kate GrenvilleVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2006
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie TiffanyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2006
Sixty Lights by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2005
Affection: There is No Cure by Ian TownsendVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2005
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2004
A Private Man by Malcolm KnoxVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2004
Of a Boy by Sonya HartnettVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2003
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2003
A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe HooperVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2002
The Architect by John ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2002
Lovesong by Elizabeth JolleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1998
Before I wake by John A. ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1997
Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude Get A Life by Maureen McCarthySchaeffer Pen Prize for Young Adults1996
The Riders by Tim WintonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1995

Nominee 65

WorkCategoryYear
Body Count by Paddy ManningNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Show Me Where it Hurts by Kylie MaslenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Witness by Louise MilliganNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Songlines: The Power and Promise by Margo NealeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Blueberries by Ellena SavageNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Fire Country by Victor SteffensenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay'wu Group of WomenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
The Girls by Chloe HigginsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess HillNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'SheaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Staying : a memoir by Jessie ColeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
The Arsonist by Chloe HooperNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Eggshell Skull by Bri LeeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir by Sofija StefanovicNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Axiomatic by Maria TumarkinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
The Museum of Words: a memoir of language, writing, and mortality by Georgia BlainNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-AdamsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
For a Girl: A true story of secrets, motherhood and hope by Mary-Rose MacCollNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth by Alexis WrightNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Songs of a War Boy: The bestselling biography of Deng Adut - a child soldier, refugee and man of hope by Deng Thiak AdutNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba ClarkeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah FergusonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
Position Doubtful: mapping landscapes and memories by Kim MahoodNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The fighter : a true story by Arnold ZableNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
Modern Love: The lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley HardingNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2016
Thea Astley : inventing her own weather by Karen LambNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2016
Australia's Second Chance - From the author of The Australian Moment / EXPRES COURIER FROM SYDNEY WITH DHL/ UPS / FEDEX by George MegalogenisNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2016
Second Half First by Drusilla ModjeskaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2016
Mannix by Brenda NiallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2016
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik JensenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2015
Darwin (The City Series) by Tess LeaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2015
Where Song Began by Tim LowNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2015
The tainted trial of Farah Jama by Julie SzegoNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2015
The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don WatsonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2015
White Beech: The Rainforest Years by Germaine GreerNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
On Warne by Gideon HaighNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Gardens of fire : an investigative memoir by Robert KennyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Boy, Lost by Kristina OlssonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen TrincaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Traditional Healers of the Central DesertNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James BoyceNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Adelaide by Kerryn GoldsworthyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
The Hall of Uselessness by Simon LeysNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda NiallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Her Father's Daughter by Alice PungNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim BonyhadyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
My Blood's Country: A Journey Through the Landscape that Inspired Judith Wright's Poetry by Fiona CappNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia FineNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Private Empire by Stephen FosterNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Into the Woods: the Battle for Tasmania's Forests by Anna KrienNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War by Rodney HallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2010
A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzieNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2010
Captain Cook was here by Maria NugentNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2010
Otherland: A Journey with My Daughter by Maria TumarkinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2010
The City's Outback by Gillian CowlishawNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2009
Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives by Robert DessaixNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2009
House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn JuersNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2009
Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalmanNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2009
Van Diemen's Land by James BoyceNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2008
Napoleon: The Path to Power by Philip DwyerNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2008
Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh SalesNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2008
Muck: A Memoir by Craig SherborneNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2008
Life Class: The Education of a Biographer by Brenda NiallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2007
Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice PungNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2007
Writing never arrives naked : early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia by Penny Van ToornNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2007

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The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Vance Palmer (English, Member-written)
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. (English, Member-written)

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