The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary prize with the top winner receiving A$ 125,000 and category winners A$ 25,000 each.
7-473: The Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction , formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction , is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award . As of 2011 it has an remuneration of A$ 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional A$ 100,000. The prize was formerly known as
14-581: A prize amount of $ 15,000. In 2022 an Award for Children's Literature valued at $ 25,000 was added, with entries being accepted in 2023. Another category was added in 2024, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, honouring satirist John Clarke , for fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Shortlists are maintained in the main article for each category. Previous awards were based on the year of publication. For winners from 1985 to 2010, see Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction . Previous awards were based on
21-821: The Nineties (1954). He was appointed in Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund in 1947. The Palmer Prize was managed by the State Library of Victoria from 1997 to 2010. Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon ( [REDACTED] ). Victorian Premier%27s Literary Award The awards were established in 1985 by John Cain , Premier of Victoria , to mark
28-799: The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. The Palmer Prize was valued at A$ 30,000 in 2010. The award was named after Vance Palmer , a leading literary critic. Palmer wrote reviews and presented a program called Current Books Worth Reading on ABC Radio . He also wrote books about Australian cultural life, including National Portraits (1940) A.G. Stephens: His Life and Work , (1941) Frank Wilmot (1942), Old Australian bush ballads (co-authored with Margaret Sutherland ) (1951) and The Legend of
35-515: The centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer , two of Australia's best-known writers and critics who made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture. From 1986 till 1997, the awards were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival . In 1997 their administration was transferred to the State Library of Victoria . By 2004, the total prize money was A$ 180,000. In 2011, stewardship
42-555: The year of publication. For winners from 1985 to 2010, see the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction . Previous awards were based on the year of publication. For winners from 1985 to 2010, see the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry . Previous awards were based on the year of publication. For winners from 1985 to 2010, see the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction . Previous awards were based on
49-554: Was taken over by the Wheeler Centre . Beginning in 2011, the awards were restructured into 5 categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama and Young People's. The winner of each receives $ 25,000. Of those 5 winners, one is chosen as the overall winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature and receives an additional $ 100,000. There are two other categories with different prize amounts: an honorary People's Choice Award voted on by readers, and an Unpublished Manuscript Award with
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