Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has a 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 the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-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 Nettie Palmer Prize was valued at A$30,000 in 2010. According to the State Library of Victoria which managed the prize from 1997 to 2010, "This prize is offered for a published work of non-fiction. Books consisting principally of photographs or illustrations are ineligible unless the accompanying text is of substantial length." [1] Palmer wrote regularly for numerous newspapers all round Australia. She wrote on a wide range of topics, from environment to cultural events, reviewing all important books being published in Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere.
Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction
Blue ribbon (
) = winner.
- 2011[2]
- Mark McKenna, An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark
- Stephen Foster, A Private Empire
- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender
- Fiona Capp, My Blood’s Country
- Anna Krien, Into the Woods
- Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street
- 2012[3]
- Bill Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth
- Simon Leys, The Hall of Uselessness
- Alice Pung, Her Father's Daughter
- Kerryn Goldsworthy, Adelaide
- James Boyce, 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia
- Brenda Niall, True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
- 2013 No award due to timing change - the next awards were presented in January 2014 for books published in 2013.
- 2014[4]
- Henry Reynolds, Forgotten War
- Robert Kenny, Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir
- Germaine Greer, White Beech
- Kristina Olsson, Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
- Helen Trinca, Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
- Gideon Haigh, On Warne
- NPY Women's Council, Commended: Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari
- 2015
- Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation (NewSouth)
- Erik Jensen, Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen (Black Inc.)
- Tess Lea, Darwin (NewSouth)
- Tim Low, Where Song Began (Penguin)
- Julie Szeg, The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama (Wild Dingo Press)
- Don Watson, The Bush (Penguin)
- 2016
- Gerald Murnane, Something for the Pain (Text Publishing)
- Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan, Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed (MUP)
- Karen Lamb, Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather (UQP)
- George Megalogenis, Australia’s Second Chance (Penguin)
- Drusilla Modjeska, Second Half First (Knopf)
- Brenda Niall, Mannix (Text Publishing)
Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction
- 2010 Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life by Brenda Walker[5]
- 2009 The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island, Chloe Hooper (Hamish Hamilton)[6]
- 2008 The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper (Allen & Unwin)[7]
- 2007 Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes by Danielle Clode (The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing) [8]
- 2006 Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis (National Gallery of Australia) [9]
- 2005 Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix (Picador/Pan Macmillan) [10]
- 2004 Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities by Graeme Davison (Allen & Unwin) [11]
- 2003 Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession by Barry Hill (Knopf/Random House) [12]
- 2002 The Boyds: A Family Biography by Brenda Niall
- 2001 Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 by Anna Haebich
- 2000 The White by Adrian Caesar
- 1998 Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
- 1995 Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer by Brenda Niall
- 1990 The Sixpenny Soldier by Roland Griffiths-Marsh
References
- ↑ State Library of Victoria
- ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ "21 big names. One big decision. Start reading.". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2014". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011: 2010 Winners & Shortlists". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2009 Winner
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2008 Winner
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2007 Winner
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2006 Winner
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2005 Winner
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2004 Winner
- ↑ Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction - 2003 Winner