The winners of the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night.
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Surrender, Sonya Hartnett
Viking/Penguin
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev, Robert Dessaix
Picador/Pan Macmillan
The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
<More or Less Than>1-100, MTC Cronin
Shearsman Books
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
The Spook, Melissa Reeves
Company B. Belvoir St.
The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld
Penguin Books Australia
The Prize for Science Writing
Astonishing Animals, Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
Text Publishing
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Living in a Material World, Randa Abdel-Fattah
Griffith Review
The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Revealing Gallipoli, Wain Fimeri
ABC Television
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
I Hate Martin Amis et al, Peter Barry
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
A Spoonful of Zucchero, Kate Taylor
Little Red Apple Publishing