Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Winners

The winners of the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced recently, and this year was the first year that children’s books had a category. Readings has highlighted the winners, and gives a run down about each book.

The winners for 2024, sourced from Creative Victoria are:

Victorian Premier’s Prize for Literature

Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (Giramondo Publishing)

Prize for Children’s Literature

Ghost Book by Remy Lai (Allen and Unwin)

Prize for Drama

The Jungle and the Sea by S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack (Currency Press in association with Belvoir St Theatre)

Prize for Fiction

Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)

Prize for Indigenous Writing

Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel Browning (Magabala Books)

Prize for Non-Fiction

Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity by Ellen van Neerven (University of Queensland Press)

Prize for Poetry

Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (Giramondo Publishing)

Prize for Young Adults

A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)

Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript

Panajachel by Rachel Morton

People’s Choice Award

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein (Scribe Publications)

Congratulations to the winners, some interesting books there, and I can’t wait to read A Hunger of Thorns.

For more information about the winners, the highly commended books and the shortlist, visit The Wheeler Centre.