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Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Judges 2009
| Peter Mews (convenor)Peter Mews is a Melbourne bookseller and novelist. He is the author of Maritime (1996) and Bright Planet (2004), which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award. He is also the owner of the Brunswick Street Bookstore. |
| Antoni JachAntoni Jach is a novelist and a painter. He is the author of Napoleon’s Double (Giramondo) — a novel with a narrative enlisting history and philosophy for its own neo-baroque ends. He is also the author of two other novels: The Weekly Card Game (McPheeGribble/Penguin), a tragicomic study of quotidian repetition, and The Layers of the City (Hodder Headline), a meditation on contemporary Paris, civilisation and barbarism that was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award and translated into Turkish under the title Sehrin Katmanlari. He is also the author of An Erratic History (Brunswick Hills Press), a history of Australia in poetry, and Miss Furr and Miss Skeene, plays 1 & 2 and the creator of a series of artist videos. His paintings were displayed in an exhibition at Le Globo in Paris in May 2009. He is the publisher at Modern Writing Press and an advisory editor for HEAT literary magazine. He also works as a part-time lecturer in creative writing at RMIT University. |
| Jane SullivanJane Sullivan is a writer specialising in literary journalism. She came to Australia from England in 1979 and worked for The Age as a reporter, feature writer and editor of various sections, including the books pages. She won the inaugural Australian Human Rights Award for journalism. At present she writes Turning Pages, a Saturday column in The Age, as well as features about books and writing for The Age. She is also the author of a novel, The White Star. | |
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