Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlist 2006
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Theft: A Love Story
Peter Carey
(Knopf/Random House)
Slow Man
J.M. Coetzee
(Random House)
The Secret River
Kate Grenville
(Text Publishing)
Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living
Carrie Tiffany
(Picador/Pan Macmillan)
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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800
Richard Broome
(Allen & Unwin)
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography
Helen Ennis
(National Gallery of Australia)
Bernard Shaw: A Life
Anthony M. Gibbs
(University of New South Wales Press)
East of Time
Jacob G. Rosenberg
(Brandl and Schlesinger)
Hoi Polloi
Craig Sherborne
(Black Inc)
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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Aether
Kate Cole-Adams
Rohypnol
Andrew Hutchinson
Among The Dead
Chris Womersley
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The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
Universal Andalusia
B.R. Dionysius
(Soi3/Papertiger Media)
The Kindly Ones
Susan Hampton
(Five Islands Press)
Urban Myths: 210 Poems
John Tranter
(University of Queensland Press)
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The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Checklist for an Armed Robber
Vanessa Bates
(Vitalstatistix National Women’s Theatre)
Ruby’s Last Dollar
Reg Cribb
(Pork Chop Productions)
Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon
Stephen Sewell
(Adelaide Festival)
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The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Theodora's Gift
Ursula Dubosarsky
(Viking/Penguin Books Australia)
The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B Hartley
Martine Murray
(Allen & Unwin)
Losing It
Lizzie Wilcock
(Scholastic Australia)
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The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
The Tortures of Heritage
Waleed Aly
(The Age)
Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party’s Australia
Judith Brett
Quarterly Essay/Black Inc
Is the Media Asleep?
David Marr
from Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia?
Black Inc
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The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Suburban Mayhem
Alice Bell
(Suburban Mayhem Pty Ltd)
Last Train to Freo
Reg Cribb
(Taylor Media)
Noise
Matthew Saville
(Retroactive Films)
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The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
When in Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita
Penelope Green
(Hachette Livre Australia)
The Olive Sisters
Amanda Hampson
(Penguin Books Australia)
From Tuscany to Victoria: The Life and Work of Pietro Baracchi, Carlo Catani, Ettore Checci
Daniela Volpe
(Italian Australian Institute)
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The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Information Idol: How Google is Making Us Stupid
Gideon Haigh
(The Monthly)
The Tall Man
Chloe Hooper
(The Monthly)
Generation Lost in the Desert, Frontier Too Far, and Scams in the Desert
Nicholas Rothwell
(The Australian)
Ties That Bind
Margaret Simons
(Griffith Review)
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The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Watershed
Fabienne Bayet-Charlton
(IAD Press)
Sweet Guy
Jared Thomas
(IAD Press)
Little Black Bastard
Noel Tovey
(Hachette Livre Australia)
Swallow the Air
Tara June Winch
(University of Queensland Press)
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The Prize for a First Book of History
Human Remains
Helen MacDonald
(Melbourne University Publishing)
Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet
Maria Nugent
(Allen & Unwin)
Traumascapes
Maria Tumarkin
(Melbourne University Publishing)
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