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Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlist 2006

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

Theft: A Love Story

Peter Carey
(Knopf/Random House)

Slow Man

J.M. Coetzee
(Random House)

The Secret River

Kate Grenville
(Text Publishing)

Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living

Carrie Tiffany
(Picador/Pan Macmillan)

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The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction

Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800

Richard Broome
(Allen & Unwin)

Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography

Helen Ennis
(National Gallery of Australia)

Bernard Shaw: A Life

Anthony M. Gibbs
(University of New South Wales Press)

East of Time

Jacob G. Rosenberg
(Brandl and Schlesinger)

Hoi Polloi

Craig Sherborne
(Black Inc)

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The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer

Aether

Kate Cole-Adams

Rohypnol

Andrew Hutchinson

Among The Dead

Chris Womersley

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The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry

Universal Andalusia

B.R. Dionysius
(Soi3/Papertiger Media)

The Kindly Ones

Susan Hampton
(Five Islands Press)

Urban Myths: 210 Poems

John Tranter
(University of Queensland Press)

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The Louis Esson Prize for Drama

Checklist for an Armed Robber

Vanessa Bates
(Vitalstatistix National Women’s Theatre)

Ruby’s Last Dollar

Reg Cribb
(Pork Chop Productions)

Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon

Stephen Sewell
(Adelaide Festival)

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The Prize for Young Adult Fiction

Theodora's Gift

Ursula Dubosarsky
(Viking/Penguin Books Australia)

The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B Hartley

Martine Murray
(Allen & Unwin)

Losing It

Lizzie Wilcock
(Scholastic Australia)

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The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate

The Tortures of Heritage

Waleed Aly
(The Age)

Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party’s Australia

Judith Brett
Quarterly Essay/Black Inc

Is the Media Asleep?

David Marr  
from Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia?
Black Inc

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The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing

Suburban Mayhem

Alice Bell
(Suburban Mayhem Pty Ltd)

Last Train to Freo

Reg Cribb
(Taylor Media)

Noise

Matthew Saville
(Retroactive Films)

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The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia

When in Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita

Penelope Green
(Hachette Livre Australia)

The Olive Sisters

Amanda Hampson
(Penguin Books Australia)

From Tuscany to Victoria: The Life and Work of Pietro Baracchi, Carlo Catani, Ettore Checci

Daniela Volpe
(Italian Australian Institute)

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The John Curtin Prize for Journalism

Information Idol: How Google is Making Us Stupid

Gideon Haigh
(The Monthly)

The Tall Man

Chloe Hooper
(The Monthly)

Generation Lost in the Desert, Frontier Too Far, and Scams in the Desert

Nicholas Rothwell
(The Australian)

Ties That Bind

Margaret Simons
(Griffith Review)

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The Prize for Indigenous Writing

Watershed

Fabienne Bayet-Charlton
(IAD Press)

Sweet Guy

Jared Thomas
(IAD Press)

Little Black Bastard

Noel Tovey
(Hachette Livre Australia)

Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch
(University of Queensland Press)

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The Prize for a First Book of History

Human Remains

Helen MacDonald
(Melbourne University Publishing)

Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet

Maria Nugent
(Allen & Unwin)

Traumascapes

Maria Tumarkin
(Melbourne University Publishing)

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