Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults

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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults, formerly known as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration 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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From inception in 1999 to 2010, the award was administered by the State Library of Australia and known as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction. In 2011 stewardship changed to the Wheeler Centre where the prize was re-launched with a new name, rules and prize amount. According to the State Library of Australia, "This prize [was] offered for a published work of fiction or collection of short stories written for a readership between the ages of 13 and 18. Publishers may consider submitting books that are appropriate to young adult readers but not published under a young adult imprint. Literary merit is the major judging criterion. In the case of illustrated books, the additional criterion of literary and artistic unity is considered." [1]

Honorees

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2011 Cassandra Golds The Three Loves of PersimmonWinner [2]
Cath Crowley Graffiti MoonFinalist [2]
Doug MacLeod The Life of a Teenage Body-SnatcherFinalist [2]
2012 John Larkin The Shadow Girl Winner [3]
Doug MacLeod The Shiny GuysFinalist [3]
Vikki Wakefield All I Ever WantedFinalist [3]
2013 Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) for books published in 2013.
2014 Barry Jonsberg My Life as an AlphabetWinner [4]
Vikki Wakefield Friday BrownFinalist [4]
Fiona Wood WildlifeFinalist [4]
2015 Claire Zorn The ProtectedWinner [5]
Justine Larbalestier RazorhurstFinalist [5]
Jaclyn Moriarty The Cracks in the MountainFinalist [5]
2016 Marlee Jane Ward Welcome to OrphancorpWinner [6]
Meg McKinlay A Single StoneFinalist [6]
Sally Morgan Sister HeartFinalist [6]
2017 Randa Abdel-Fattah When Michael Met MinaWinner [7]
Zana Fraillon The Bone SparrowFinalist [7]
Emily Gale The Other Side of SummerFinalist [7]
2018 Demet Divaroren Living on Hope StreetWinner [8] [9]
Alison EvansIdaFinalist [8]
Pip Harry Because of YouFinalist [8]
2019 Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina Catching Teller CrowWinner [10] [9]
Clare Atkins Between UsFinalist [10]
Erin Gough Amelia WestlakeFinalist [10]
2020 Helena Fox How It Feels to FloatWinner [11] [9]
Holden Sheppard Invisible BoysFinalist [12]
Vikki Wakefield This Is How We Change the EndingFinalist [12]
2021 Cath Moore Metal Fish, Falling SnowWinner [13] [14] [9]
Rawah Arja The F TeamFinalist [15]
Christie Nieman Where We BeginFinalist [15]
2022 Felicity Castagna Girls in Boys' CarsWinner [16] [17] [9]
Leanne Hall The GapsFinalist [18] [19]
Rebecca LimTiger DaughterFinalist [18] [19]
2023 Kate MurrayWe Who Hunt the HollowWinner [20] [21]
Matt Ottley The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable SadnessFinalist [20] [21]
Rhiannon Wilde Where You Left UsFinalist [20] [21]
2024 Lili Wilkinson A Hunger of ThornsWinner [22] [23]
Helena Fox The Quiet and the LoudFinalist [22]
Will Kostakis We Could Be SomethingFinalist [22]

Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction

YearAuthorTitlePublisherRef.
1988 John Marsden So Much to Tell You Walter McVitty Books [24]
1989 Caroline Macdonald The Lake at the End of the World Hodder and Stoughton [25]
1990 Diana KiddOnion Tears Collins [26]
1991 Gary Crew Strange Objects Heinemann [27]
1992 Eleanor NilssonThe House Guest Viking [28]
1999 Phillip Gwynne Deadly, Unna? [29]
2000 Helen Barnes Killing Aurora Penguin [1]
2001 James Moloney Touch Me University of Queensland Press [1]
2002 Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor Njunjul the Sun Allen & Unwin [1]
2003 David Metzenthen Wildlight: A Journey Penguin [30]
2004 Margo Lanagan Black Juice Allen & Unwin [31]
2005 Scott Westerfeld So Yesterday Penguin [32]
2006 Ursula Dubosarsky Theodora's Gift Viking/Penguin [33]
2007 Simmone Howell Notes from the Teenage Underground Pan Macmillan [34]
2008 Brigid Lowry Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful Allen & Unwin [35]
2009 Sue SalibaSomething in the World Called Love Penguin [36]
2010 Kirsty Eagar Raw Blue Penguin [37]

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