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2008 Premier's Literary Awards Announced
2 September 2008
The recipients of the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night by the Premier John Brumby.
Award-winning Melbourne novelist, screenwriter and journalist Helen Garner received the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Spare Room. She was among 12 writers who share in the $210,000 prize pool.
Premier John Brumby said 'We know Victoria has the best and most engaged literary scene in Australia and it's fantastic to recognise these authors in the midst of the Melbourne Writers Festival and just after our City of Literature endorsement by UNESCO.'
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction was awarded to Meredith Hooper, for Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica. The John Curtin Prize for Journalism went to Richard Flanagan, for his article 'Out of Control: The Tragedy of Tasmania's Forests', published in The Monthly. Marcia Langton received the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate for 'Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show', published in Griffith Review. Brigid Lowry was awarded the Prize for Young Adult Fiction for her book Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful.
The awards dinner featured Jennifer Byrne, host of ABC 1's First Tuesday Bookclub, as MC and Alice Pung, celebrated Melbourne author, who delivered the keynote address.
Read the full list of the 2008 Premier's Literary Awards recipients >
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