Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction

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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.

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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

Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon ( Blueribbon icon.png ).

Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2011 Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning ClarkWinner [2]
Tim Bonyhady Good Living StreetFinalist [2]
Fiona Capp My Blood’s CountryFinalist [2]
Cordelia Fine Delusions of Gender Finalist [2]
Stephen FosterA Private EmpireFinalist [2]
Anna Krien Into the WoodsFinalist [2]
2012 Blueribbon icon.png Bill Gammage The Biggest Estate on EarthWinner [3] [4]
James Boyce 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of AustraliaFinalist [3] [5]
Kerryn Goldsworthy AdelaideFinalist [3] [5]
Simon Leys The Hall of UselessnessFinalist [3] [5]
Brenda Niall True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth DurackFinalist [3] [5]
Alice Pung Her Father's DaughterFinalist [3] [5]
2014 [lower-alpha 1] Henry Reynolds Forgotten War Winner [6]
Germaine Greer White Beech Finalist [7] [8]
Gideon Haigh On WarneFinalist [7] [8]
Robert KennyGardens of Fire: An Investigative MemoirFinalist [7] [8]
Kristina Olsson Boy, Lost: A Family MemoirFinalist [7] [8]
Helen Trinca Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St JohnFinalist [7] [8]
NPY Women's Council Commended: Traditional Healers of Central Australia: NgangkariFinalist [7] [8]
2015 Blueribbon icon.png Alan Atkinson The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: NationWinner [9] [10]
Erik Jensen Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen [lower-alpha 2] Finalist [9] [11] [12]
Tess Lea DarwinFinalist [9] [11] [12]
Tim Low Where Song BeganFinalist [9] [11] [12]
Julie Szego The Tainted Trial of Farah JamaFinalist [9] [11] [12]
Don Watson The BushFinalist [9] [11] [12]
2016 Gerald Murnane Something for the PainWinner [13] [14]
Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday ReedFinalist [15]
Karen Lamb Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own WeatherFinalist [15]
George Megalogenis Australia’s Second ChanceFinalist [15]
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half FirstFinalist [15]
Brenda Niall MannixFinalist [15]
2017 Madeline Gleeson Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and NauruWinner [16]
Deng Adut with Ben Mckelvey Songs of a War BoyFinalist [17]
Maxine Beneba Clarke The Hate RaceFinalist [17]
Sarah Ferguson with Patricia Drum The Killing Season UncutFinalist [17]
Kim Mahood Position DoubtfulFinalist [17]
Arnold Zable The FighterFinalist [17]
2018 Blueribbon icon.png Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & DisasterWinner [18] [19]
Georgia Blain The Museum of Words: A Memoir of Language, Writing and MortalityFinalist [18] [20]
Kate Cole-Adams Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of ConsciousnessFinalist [18] [20]
Mary-Rose MacColl For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and HopeFinalist [18] [20]
Alexis Wright TrackerFinalist [18] [20]
2019 Blueribbon icon.png Behrouz Boochani No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Winner [21]
Jessie Cole Staying: A MemoirFinalist [22]
Chloe Hooper The Arsonist: A Mind on FireFinalist [22]
Bri Lee Eggshell Skull Finalist [22]
Sofija Stefanovic Miss Ex-YugoslaviaFinalist [22]
Maria Tumarkin AxiomaticFinalist [22]
2020 Christina Thompson Sea People: The Puzzle of PolynesiaWinner [23] [24]
Chloe Higgins The GirlsFinalist [25]
Jess Hill See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse Finalist [25]
Lizzie O'Shea Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital TechnologyFinalist [25]
Archie Roach Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My MusicFinalist [25]
Gay’wu Group of Women Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through SonglinesFinalist [25]
2021 Paddy Manning Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing UsWinner [26]
Kylie Maslen Show Me Where It HurtsFinalist [27] [28]
Louise Milligan Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking JusticeFinalist [27] [28]
Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly Songlines: The Power and PromiseFinalist [27] [28]
Ellena Savage BlueberriesFinalist [27] [28]
Victor Steffensen Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save AustraliaFinalist [27] [28]
2022 Amani Haydar The Mother WoundWinner [29] [30]
Randa Abdel-Fattah Coming of Age in the War on TerrorFinalist [31]
Danielle Celermajer Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing FutureFinalist [31]
Blueribbon icon.png Veronica Gorrie Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience Finalist [31] [29]
Fiona McGregor Buried Not DeadFinalist [31]
Chelsea Watego Another Day in the Colony Finalist [31]
2023 Eda Gunaydin Root & Branch: Essays on InheritanceWinner [32] [33] [34]
Shannon BurnsChildhoodFinalist [32] [35]
Louisa Lim Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong Finalist [32] [35]
Kylie Moore-Gilbert The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian PrisonFinalist [32] [35]
Sally Olds People Who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose LivingFinalist [32] [35]
Sam Wallman Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic about Workers and Their UnionsFinalist [32] [35]
2024 Kris Kneen Fat Girl DancingFinalist [36]
Antony Loewenstein The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the worldFinalist [36]
Chris Masters Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimesFinalist [36]
David Marr Killing for Country: A family storyFinalist [36]
Ellen van Neerven Personal Score: Sport, culture, identityFinalist [36]
Jordana Silverstein Cruel Care: A history of children at our bordersFinalist [36]

Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction

Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction winners
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1985 Bernard Smith The Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard [37]
1986 John Bryson Evil Angels [38]
1988 Brian Matthews Louisa [39]
1989 Oskar Spate Paradise Found and Lost
1990 Roland Griffiths-Marsh The Sixpenny Soldier
1991 Dorothy Hewett Wild Card
1992 David Marr Patrick White: A Life
1993 Greg Dening Mr Bligh's Bad Language
1994 Jim DavidsonLyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre 1884-1962
1995 Brenda Niall Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer
1996
1997 Peter Robb Midnight in Sicily
1998 Raimond Gaita Romulus, My Father
1999 Peter Robb M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
2000 Adrian Caesar The White
2001 Anna Haebich Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
2002 Brenda Niall The Boyds: A Family Biography
2003 Barry Hill Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession [40]
2004 Graeme Davison Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities [41]
2005 Robert Dessaix Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev [42]
2006 Helen Ennis Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography [43]
2007 Danielle Clode Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes [44]
2008 Meredith Hooper The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica [45]
2009 Chloe Hooper The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island [46]
2010 Brenda Walker Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life [47]

Notes

  1. ↑ Prior to 2014, the award year was directly related to the year of publication. In 2014, the award year referred to books published in the previous year. That is, in 2012, the award went to books published in 2012. In 2014, the award went to books published in 2013.
  2. ↑ Acute Misfortune was later the basis of the film Acute Misfortune

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