The winners of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2014 were announced last night. The winners were:
Winners
- People’s Choice Award Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- Young Adult My Life as an Alphabet, Barry Jonsberg
- Drama Savages, Patricia Cornelius
- Poetry Liquid Nitrogen, Jennifer Maiden
- Non-Fiction Forgotten War, Henry Reynolds
- Fiction Coal Creek, Alex Miller
- Victorian Prize for Literature Liquid Nitrogen, Jennifer Maiden
Wonderful to see the big winner being poetry, with the overall prize going to a poetry collection. I had intended to post something here about how wonderful it is to see the poor cousin in the limelight, but poet and columnist John Kinsella has said it so much more eloquently than I could. Read what he has to say over at Crikey.