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Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlist 2005

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

Surrender
Sonya Hartnett
Viking/Penguin

Sixty Lights
Gail Jones
Vintage/Random House

Affection
Ian Townsend
Fourth Estate /Harper Collins

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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction

Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art
Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller with an introductory essay by Judith Pugh
The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Publishing

Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures and Self
Greg Dening
The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Publishing

Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
Robert Dessaix
Picador/Pan Macmillan

Joe Cinque’s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
Helen Garner
Picador/Pan Macmillan

Bypass: The Story of a Road
Michael McGirr
Picador/Pan Macmillan

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The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry

<More or Less Than>1-100
MTC Cronin
Shearsman Books

Doppler Effect
John Kinsella
Salt Publishing

Firelick
Morgan Yasbincek
Fremantle Arts Centre Press

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The Louis Esson Prize for Drama

The Frail Man
Anthony Crowley
Playbox /Currency

Blowback
David Pledger
Not Yet, It’s Difficult

The Spook
Melissa Reeves
Company B. Belvoir St.

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The Prize for Young Adult Fiction

The Running Man
Michael Gerard Bauer
Omnibus Books

Secret Scribbled Notebooks
Joanne Horniman
Allen & Unwin

So Yesterday
Scott Westerfeld
Penguin Books Australia

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The Prize for Science Writing

The Land Of Flowers: An Australian Environment on the Brink
Irene Cunningham
Otford Press

Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science
Elizabeth Finkel
ABC Books

Astonishing Animals
Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
Text Publishing 

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The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate

Living in a Material World
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Griffith Review

‘Kangaroo Court’: Family Law in Australia
John Hirst
‘Quarterly Essay’
Black Inc

Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq
Paul McGeough
‘Quarterly Essay’
Black Inc

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The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing

Revealing Gallipoli
Wain Fimeri
December Films

Little Fish
Jacquelin Perske
Porchlight FIlms

Look Both Ways
Sarah Watt
Hibiscus Films

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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer

I Hate Martin Amis et al
Peter Barry

‘Days Like Television…Days Like Television’ and Other Stories
James Hawthorne

The Timeball Philosophers
Anita Punton

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The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia

Martino’s Story
Lyn Chatham
Peter Bruno

Per l'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration
Julia Church
The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing

A Spoonful of Zucchero
Kate Taylor
Little Red Apple Publishing 

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