Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at AU$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Vance Palmer. See Australian Literature for more information about Australian authors and their works.

As 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 the Nineties" (1954). He was appointed in Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund in 1947.

Winners by year

*2008 "The Spare Room" by Helen Garner [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/recipients/shortlist_winner_08.html Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2008 Winner] ]
*2007 "Carpentaria" by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vpprize/winner2007.html Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2007 Winner] ]
*2006 "" by Peter Carey (Knopf/Random House) [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vpprize/winner2006.html Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2006 Winner] ]
*2005 "Surrender" by Sonya Hartnett (Viking/Penguin) [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vpprize/winner2005.html Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2005 Winner] ]
*2004 "Slow Water" by Annamarie Jagose (Vintage/Random House) [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vpprize/winner2004.html Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2004 Winner] ]
*2003 "Shanghai Dancing" by Brian Castro (Giramondo) [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vpprize/winner2003.html Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2003 Winner] ]
*2002 "" by Richard Flanagan (Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia)
*2001 "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey (Knopf)
*2000 "Out of Ireland" by Christopher Koch (Doubleday/Random House Australia
*1999 "Mr Darwin's Shooter" by Roger McDonald (Random House Australia)
*1998 "The Sound of One Hand Clapping" by Richard Flanagan (Pan Macmillan)
*1997 "The Drowner" by Robert Drewe (Pan Macmillan)
*1996 "Camille's Bread" by Amanda Lohrey (Harper Collins)
*1995 "Dark Places" by Kate Grenville (Pan Macmillan)
*1994 "What I Have Written" by John A. Scott (McPhee Gribble)
*1993 "After China" by Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin)
*1992 "Double Wolf" by Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin)
*1991 "Still Murder" by Finola Moorhead (Penguin Books)
*1990 "Oceana Fine" by Tom Flood (Allen & Unwin)
*1989 "Captivity Captive" by Rodney Hall (McPhee Gribble)
*1988 "Holden's Performance" by Murray Bail (Penguin Books)
*1987 "Second Sight" by Janine Burke (Greenhouse)
*1986 "Illywhacker" by Peter Carey (University of Queensland Press)
*1985 "Antipodes" by David Malouf (Chatto & Windus)

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