The winners of this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.

The winner of both the Non-Fiction Prize and the overall Victorian Prize for Literature was Bill Gammage for The Biggest Estate on Earth.

Here is the full list of winners of each category:

Victorian Prize for Literature

• The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

• Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears

Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction

• The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

Prize for Writing for Young Adults

• The Shadow Girl by John Larkin

CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry

• Armour by John Kinsella

Louis Esson Prize for Drama

• A Golem Story by Lally Katz

People’s Choice Award

• National Interest by Aiden Fennessy

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