Premier's Literary Award Winners 2006
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Theft: A love Story by Peter Carey Knopf/Random House
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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis National Gallery of Australia
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The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter University of Queensland Press
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The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon by Stephen Sewell Adelaide Festival
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The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Theodora's Gift by Ursula Dubosarsky Penguin Books Australia
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The Prize for a First Book of History
Human Remains by Helen MacDonald Melbourne University Publishing
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The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Is the Media Asleep? from Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? by David Marr Black Inc
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The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Noise by Matthew Saville Retroactive Films
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The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch University of Queensland Press
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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Rohypnol by Andrew Hutchinson
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The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
When in Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita by Penelope Green Hachette Livre Australia
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The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Information Idol: How Google is Making Us Stupid by Gideon Haigh The Monthly
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper The Monthly
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