Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2012

Winners

• People’s Choice Award National Interest, Aidan Fennessy
• Young Adult The Shadow Girl, John Larkin
• Drama A Golem Story, Lally Katz
• Poetry Armour, John Kinsella
• Non-Fiction The Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage
• Fiction Foal’s Bread, Gillian Mears
• Victorian Prize for Literature The Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage

Shortlisted Nominees

Prize for Poetry

• Southern Barbarians, John Mateer
• Vishvarupa, Michelle Cahill
• Armour, John Kinsella

Prize for Fiction

• Foal’s Bread, Gillian Mears
• A History of Books, Gerald Murnane
• The Cook, Wayne Macauley
• Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany
• All That I Am, Anna Funder
• Cold Light, Frank Moorhouse

Prize for Non-Fiction

• The Biggest Estate on Earth, Bill Gammage
• The Hall of Uselessness, Simon Leys
• Her Father’s Daughter, Alice Pung
• Adelaide, Kerryn Goldsworthy
• 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia, James Boyce
• True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack, Brenda Niall

Prize for Writing for Young Adults

• All I Ever Wanted, Vikki Wakefield
• The Shadow Girl, John Larkin
• The Shiny Guys, Doug MacLeod

Prize for Drama

• National Interest, Aidan Fennessy
• A Golem Story, Lally Katz
• Boxman, Daniel Keene