Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlist 2007
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Time We Have Taken
Steven Carroll
(Fourth Estate/Harper Collins Australia)
Feather Man
Rhyll McMaster
(Brandl and Schlesinger)
Carpentaria
Alexis Wright
(Giramondo)
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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
Danielle Clode
(The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing in association with the State Library of Victoria)
Whose ABC? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983-2006
Ken Inglis
(Black Inc)
Life Class: The Education of a Biographer
Brenda Niall
(Melbourne University Press/Melbourne University Publishing)
Unpolished Gem
Alice Pung
(Black Inc)
Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia
Penny van Toorn
(Aboriginal Studies Press)
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The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
The Goldfinches of Baghdad
Robert Adamson
(Flood Editions)
Jack
Judy Johnson
(Pandanus Press)
Montale: A Biographical Anthology
John Watson
(Puncher & Wattman)
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The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
A Single Act
Jane Bodie
(Melbourne Theatre Company)
Asylum
Kit Lazaroo
(La Mama/HereTheatre)
It Just Stopped
Stephen Sewell
(Malthouse Theatre)
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The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Gravity
Scot Gardner
(Pan Macmillan)
Notes from the Teenage Underground
Simmone Howell
(Pan Macmillan)
Black Water
David Metzenthen
(Penguin Books Australia)
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The Prize for Science Writing
The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology and Conservation of the Deep Sea
Tony Koslow
(University of New South Wales Press)
Swimming in Stone: The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley
John Long
(Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat
A Barrie Pittock
(CSIRO Publishing)
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The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
The Exiled Child
Meera Atkinson
(Griffith Review)
Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia
Amanda Lohrey
(Quarterly Essay/Black Inc)
The Writer in a Time of Terror
Frank Moorhouse
(Griffith Review)
White Guilt, Victimhood and the Quest for a Radical Centre
Noel Pearson
(Griffith Review)
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The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
The Tumbler
Chris Thompson
(A Mondayitis/Ztudio production)
Ten Empty
Brendan Cowell and Anthony Hayes
(Yeah Right/Dragonfly Pictures)
The Home Song Stories
Tony Ayres
(Porchlight Films)
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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
The Ghostwriter
Nick Gadd
Dissection
Jacinta Halloran
The Wog Manual
Amra Pajalic
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The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
Chewing Gum in Holy Water: Mario Valentini’s Childhood in the Abruzzo Mountains
Cheryl Hardacre & Mario Valentini
(Allen & Unwin)
The Grand Experiment: Two Boys, Two Cultures
Anouk Ride
(Hachette Livre Australia)
Madonna of the Eucalypts
Karen Sparnon
(Text Publishing)
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The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Hicks on Trial
Amanda Collinge and Jenny Brockie
(‘Insight’/SBS Television)
Muslim Leader Blames Women for Sex Attacks (plus associated stories)
Richard Kerbaj
(The Australian)
Cruising
Malcolm Knox
(The Monthly)
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