Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama
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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The winner of this category prize vies with four other category winners (fiction; non-fiction; poetry; young adult literature) for overall Victorian Prize for Literature.
Until 2012, the award was called the Louis Esson Prize for Drama.
Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama
[edit]Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon ().
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | Lally Katz | A Golem Story | Winner | [1][2] |
Aidan Fennessy | National | Finalist | [1][3] | |
Daniel Keene | Boxman | Finalist | [1][3] | |
2014[a] | Patricia Cornelius | Savages | Winner | [4] |
Kate Grenville | The Secret River | Finalist | [5][6] | |
Anne-Louise Sarks and Kate Mulvany | Medea | Finalist | [5][6] | |
2015 | Angus Cerini | Resplendence | Winner | [7][8] |
Alison Croggon | Mayakovsky | Finalist | [7][9][10] | |
Daniel Keene | The Long Way Home | Finalist | [7][9][10] | |
2016 | Broken | Winner | [11][12] | |
Angela Betzien | Mortido | Finalist | [13] | |
Patricia Cornelius | SHIT | Finalist | [13] | |
Declan Greene | I am a Miracle | Highly commended | [13] | |
2017 | The Drover's Wife | Winner | [14] | |
Gita Bezard | Girl Shut Your Mouth | Finalist | [15] | |
Zoë Coombs Marr | Trigger Warning | Finalist | [15] | |
2018 | Michele Lee | Rice | Winner | [16][17] |
Nakkiah Lui | Black is the New White | Finalist | [18][19] | |
Kate Mulvany | The Rasputin Affair | Finalist | [18][19] | |
2019 | Kendall Feaver | The Almighty Sometimes | Winner | [20][21] |
Michele Lee | Going Down | Finalist | [22] | |
Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine | Barbara and the Camp Dogs | Finalist | [22] | |
2020 | Counting and Cracking | Winner | [23][24][25] | |
Samah Sabawi | Them | Finalist | [26] | |
Meyne Wyatt | City of Gold | Finalist | [26] | |
2021 | Angus Cerini | Wonnangatta | Winner | [27] |
Dan Giovannoni | SLAP. BANG. KISS. | Finalist | [28][29] | |
Andrea James | Sunshine Super Girl: The Evonne Goolagong Story | Finalist | [28][29] | |
Kendall Feaver | Wherever She Wanders | Highly Commend | [28][29] | |
Benjamin Law | Torch the Place | Highly Commend | [28][29] | |
2022 | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk | Winner | [30][31] |
Steve Perie | Return to the Dirt | Finalist | [32] | |
Melissa Reeves | Archimedes War | Finalist | [33] | |
Andrea James & Catherine Ryan | Dogged | Highly commend | [34] | |
2023 | John Harvey | The Return | Winner | [35][36][37] |
Merlynn Tong | Golden Blood | Finalist | [38][39] | |
Dylan Van Den Berg | Whitefella Yella Tree | Finalist | [38][39] | |
2024 | Declan Furber Gillick | Jacky | Finalist | [40] |
S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack | The Jungle and the Sea | Finalist | [40] | |
Christos Tsiolkas and Dan Giovannoni | Loaded | Finalist | [40] |
Louis Esson Prize for Drama
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1985 | David Allen | Cheapside | Winner | [41] |
1986 | Janis Balodis | Too Young for Ghosts | Winner | [42] |
1987 | Ben Lewin | A Matter of Convenience | Winner | [43] |
1988 | Alma De Groen | The Rivers of China | Winner | |
1989 | Daniel Keene | Silent Partner | Winner | |
1990 | Sam Sejavka | The Hive | Winner | [44] |
1991 | Katherine Thomson | Diving for Pearls | Winner | |
1992 | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Proof | Winner | |
1993 | Michael Gurr | Sex Diary of an Infidel | Winner | |
1994 | Louis Nowra | The Temple | Winner | [45] |
1995 | Barry Dickins | Remembering Ronald Ryan | Winner | [46] |
1996 | Joanna Murray-Smith | Honour | Winner | |
1997 | Michael Gurr | Jerusalem | Winner | |
1998 | Daniel Keene | Every Minute, Every Hour, Every Day | Winner | [47] |
1999 | Catherine Zimdahl | Clark in Sarajevo | Winner | [48] |
2000 | Hannie Rayson | Life After George | Winner | |
2001 | Peta Murray | Salt | Winner | |
2002 | Andrew Bovell | Holy Day | Winner | |
2003 | Joanna Murray-Smith | Rapture | Winner | |
2004 | Stephen Sewell | Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America | Winner | |
2005 | Melissa Reeves | The Spook | Winner | |
2006 | Stephen Sewell | Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon | Winner | |
2007 | Jane Bodie | A Single Act | Winner | |
Kit Lazaroo | Asylum | Finalist | [49] | |
Stephen Sewell | It Just Stopped | Finalist | [49] | |
2008 | Andrew Bovell | When the Rain Stops Falling | Winner | [50][51] |
Wesley Enoch | The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table | Finalist | [51] | |
Michael Gow | Toy Symphony | Finalist | [51] | |
2009 | Lally Katz | Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd | Winner | |
Paul Galloway | Realism | Finalist | [52] | |
Damien Millar | The Modern International Dead | Finalist | [52] | |
2010 | Tom Holloway | And No More Shall We Part | Winner | [53] |
Declan Greene | Moth | Finalist | [54] | |
Melissa Reeves | Furious Mattress | Finalist | [54] | |
2011 | Patricia Cornelius | Do not go gentle… | Winner | [55] |
Jane Montgomery Griffiths | Sappho…in 9 fragments | Finalist | [55] | |
Raimondo Cortese | Intimacy | Finalist | [55] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ 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.
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