The Winners of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2015

The winners for the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.

The winner of the fiction prize is To Name Those Lost by Rohan Wilson.

The winner of the non-fiction prize is The Europeans in Australia by Alan Atkinson.

The winner of the young adult fiction prize is The Protected by Claire Zorn.

The winner of the poetry prize is The Beautiful Anxiety by Jill Jones.

The winner of the drama prize is Resplendence by Angus Cerini.

The winner of the People’s Choice award is Where Song Began by Tim Low.

And finally, the winner of the overall Victorian Prize for Literature was The Europeans in Australia by Alan Atkinson

Congratulations to all the winning authors (and their publishers!)

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievement by Australian writers. Two awards are still yet to be announced: The Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and the Award for Indigenous Writing. Find out more here.