2024
Prize Winners
Alexis Wright
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2024
Carrie Tiffany
Writers Prize 2024
Claire Thomas & Angus Cerini
Falls Creek Writers Residencies 2024
Judith Bishop
Civic Choice Award 2024
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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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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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