Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
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The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction is one of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at AU$30,000. Most state premiers present annual Australian literary awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. It is named after Vance Palmer.
As a leading literary critic he wrote reviews and presented a program called Current Books Worth Reading on ABC Radio. He also wrote books about Australian cultural life, including National Portraits (1940) A.G. Stephens: His Life and Work, (1941) Frank Wilmot (1942), Old Australian bush ballads (co-authored with Margaret Sutherland) (1951) and The Legend of the Nineties (1954). He was appointed in Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund in 1947.
[edit] Winners by year
- 2006 Theft: A love Story by Peter Carey (Knopf/Random House)
- 2005 Surrender by Sonya Hartnett (Viking/Penguin)
- 2004 Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose (Vintage/Random House)
- 2003 Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro (Giramondo)
- 2002 Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
(Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia) - 2001 The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Knopf)
- 2000 Out of Ireland by Christopher Koch (Doubleday/Random House Australia
- 1999 Mr Darwin’s Shooter by Roger McDonald (Random House Australia)
- 1998 The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan (Pan Macmillan)
- 1997 The Drowner by Robert Drewe (Pan Macmillan)
- 1996 Camille's Bread by Amanda Lohrey (Harper Collins)
- 1995 Dark Places by Kate Grenville (Pan Macmillan)
- 1994 What I Have Written by John A Scott (McPhee Gribble)
- 1993 After China by Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin)
- 1992 Double Wolf by Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin)
- 1991 Still Murder by Finola Moorhead (Penguin Books)
- 1990 Oceana Fine by Tom Flood (Allen & Unwin)
- 1989 Captivity Captive by Rodney Hall (McPhee Gribble)
- 1988 Holden’s Performance by Murray Bail (Penguin Books)
- 1987 Second Sight by Janine Burke (Greenhouse)
- 1986 Illywhacker by Peter Carey (University of Queensland Press)
- 1985 Antipodes by David Malouf (Chatto & Windus)
