Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlist 2005
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Surrender Sonya Hartnett Viking/Penguin
Sixty Lights Gail Jones Vintage/Random House
Affection Ian Townsend Fourth Estate /Harper Collins
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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller with an introductory essay by Judith Pugh The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Publishing
Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures and Self Greg Dening The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Publishing
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev Robert Dessaix Picador/Pan Macmillan
Joe Cinque’s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law Helen Garner Picador/Pan Macmillan
Bypass: The Story of a Road Michael McGirr Picador/Pan Macmillan
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The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
<More or Less Than>1-100 MTC Cronin Shearsman Books
Doppler Effect John Kinsella Salt Publishing
Firelick Morgan Yasbincek Fremantle Arts Centre Press
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The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
The Frail Man Anthony Crowley Playbox /Currency
Blowback David Pledger Not Yet, It’s Difficult
The Spook Melissa Reeves Company B. Belvoir St.
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The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
The Running Man Michael Gerard Bauer Omnibus Books
Secret Scribbled Notebooks Joanne Horniman Allen & Unwin
So Yesterday Scott Westerfeld Penguin Books Australia
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The Prize for Science Writing
The Land Of Flowers: An Australian Environment on the Brink Irene Cunningham Otford Press
Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science Elizabeth Finkel ABC Books
Astonishing Animals Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten Text Publishing
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The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Living in a Material World Randa Abdel-Fattah Griffith Review
‘Kangaroo Court’: Family Law in Australia John Hirst ‘Quarterly Essay’ Black Inc
Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq Paul McGeough ‘Quarterly Essay’ Black Inc
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The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
Revealing Gallipoli Wain Fimeri December Films
Little Fish Jacquelin Perske Porchlight FIlms
Look Both Ways Sarah Watt Hibiscus Films
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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
I Hate Martin Amis et al Peter Barry
‘Days Like Television…Days Like Television’ and Other Stories James Hawthorne
The Timeball Philosophers Anita Punton
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The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia
Martino’s Story Lyn Chatham Peter Bruno
Per l'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration Julia Church The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing
A Spoonful of Zucchero Kate Taylor Little Red Apple Publishing
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