2021

Prize Winners

Christos Tsiolkas
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021

Evelyn Araluen
Professional Development Award 2021

Eloise Victoria Grills
Writer’s Prize 2021

Maxine Beneba Clarke
Civic Choice Award 2021

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2018

Prize Winners

Alison Lester
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018

Maria Tumarkin
Best Writing Award 2018
Axiomatic (Brow Books, 2018)

Jamie Marina Lau
Readings Residency Award 2018

Louise Milligan
Civic Choice Award 2018
Cardinal (MUP, 2017)

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2015

Prize Winners

Professor Chris Wallace-Crabbe AM
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015

Andrea Goldsmith
Best Writing Award 2015
The Memory Trap (Fourth Estate, 2014)

Kate Ryan
Writers Prize and Residency 2015
Essay: Psychotherapy for Normal People

Robyn Annear
Civic Choice Award 2015
Essay: Places Without Poetry

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2012

Prize Winners

Alex Miller
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2012

Craig Sherborne
Best Writing Award and Residency 2012
The Amateur Science of Love (Text Publishing, 2011 )

Tony Birch
Civic Choice
Award 2012 Blood (University of Queensland Press, 2011)

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2009

Prize Winners

Gerald Murnane
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2009

Nam Le
Best Writing Award 2009
The Boat (Penguin, 2008)

Amra Pajalic
Civic Choice Award 2009
The Good Daughter (Text Publishing, 2009)

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2006

Prize Winners

Helen Garner
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2006

Christos Tsolkias
Best Writing Award 2006
Dead Europe (Random House, 2005)

Henry von Doussa
Civic Choice Award 2006
The Park Bench (Thompson Walker, 2005)

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