Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
Friday, 2 February 2024 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Grace Yee has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her poetry collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo) at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs).
The winners in each category are:
Victorian Prize for Literature ($100,000)
- Chinese Fish (Grace Ye, Giramondo)
Fiction ($25,000)
- Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Nonfiction ($25,000)
- Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)
Indigenous writing ($25,000)
- Close to the Subject: Selected works (Daniel Browning, Magabala)
Children’s literature ($25,000)
- Ghost Book (Remy Lai, A&U)
Drama ($25,000)
- The Jungle and the Sea (S Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack, Belvoir St Theatre & Currency Press)
Poetry ($25,000)
- Chinese Fish (Grace Yee, Giramondo)
Writing for young adults ($25,000)
- A Hunger of Thorns (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Unpublished manuscript ($15,000)
- ‘Panajachel’ (Rachel Morton).
People’s choice award ($2000)
- The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World (Antony Loewenstein, Scribe).
Winners were announced at a ceremony on 1 February in Melbourne. Last year’s Victorian Prize for Literature winner was Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo).
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