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Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction

Literary award

Summary

Literary award

The Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has a remuneration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000.

The prize was formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction from inception until 2010 when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. The Nettie Palmer Prize was valued at 30,000 in 2010. According to the State Library of Victoria which managed the prize from 1997 to 2010, "This prize is offered for a published work of non-fiction. Books consisting principally of photographs or illustrations are ineligible unless the accompanying text is of substantial length." Palmer wrote regularly for numerous newspapers all round Australia. She wrote on a wide range of topics, from environment to cultural events, reviewing all important books being published in Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction

Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon ().

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.201120122014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
**Winnerdate=2011title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011url=http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2011url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190208195454/https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2011archive-date=February 8, 2019access-date=January 29, 2014work=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards}}
Good Living StreetFinalist
My Blood’s CountryFinalist
Delusions of GenderFinalist
**Finalist
Into the WoodsFinalist
**Winnerdate=2012title=21 big names. One big decision. Start reading.url=http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2012url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202043859/https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2012archive-date=February 2, 2019access-date=January 29, 2014work=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards}}
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of AustraliaFinalistlast=date=9 August 2012title=2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2012/08/09/24622/2012-victorian-premiers-literary-awards-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924161142/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2012/08/09/24622/2012-victorian-premiers-literary-awards-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2021-09-24access-date=2023-02-21website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
AdelaideFinalist
**Finalist
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth DurackFinalist
Her Father's DaughterFinalist
Forgotten WarWinner
White BeechFinalistdate=2014title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2014url=http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2014url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125133913/http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2014archive-date=25 January 2014access-date=29 January 2014work=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards}}
On WarneFinalist
Gardens of Fire: An Investigative MemoirFinalist
Boy, Lost: A Family MemoirFinalist
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St JohnFinalist
NPY Women's CouncilCommended: Traditional Healers of Central Australia: NgangkariFinalist
**Winnerdate=2015title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2015url=http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2015url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208093306/http://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2015archive-date=8 December 2015access-date=8 December 2015work=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards}}
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam CullenFinalistlast=Puvanenthiranfirst=Bhakthidate=2014-12-11title=Diverse 2015 Victorian Premiers Literary Award Shortlist features itinerant novelist Ceridwan Doveyurl=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/diverse-2015-victorian-premiers-literary-award-shortlist-features-itinerant-novelist-ceridwan-dovey-20141211-1256bh.htmlurl-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618203216/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/diverse-2015-victorian-premiers-literary-award-shortlist-features-itinerant-novelist-ceridwan-dovey-20141211-1256bh.htmlarchive-date=2018-06-18access-date=2023-02-21website=The Sydney Morning Heraldlanguage=en}}
DarwinFinalist
Where Song BeganFinalist
**Finalist
**Finalist
Something for the PainWinnertitle=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2016url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428053629/https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2016archive-date=28 April 2018access-date=1 May 2018website=The Wheeler Centre}}
and Kendrah MorganModern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday ReedFinalistlast=date=7 December 2015title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2015/12/07/35577/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2016-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818104716/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2015/12/07/35577/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2016-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2022-08-18access-date=2023-02-21website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own WeatherFinalist
Australia’s Second ChanceFinalist
Second Half FirstFinalist
MannixFinalist
Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and NauruWinner
with Ben MckelveySongs of a War BoyFinalistlast=date=5 December 2016title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/12/05/82063/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2017-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030082020/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/12/05/82063/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2017-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2020-10-30access-date=2023-02-21website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
**Finalist
with Patricia Drum**Finalist
Position DoubtfulFinalist
**Finalist
**Winnertitle=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2018url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501161311/https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2018archive-date=1 May 2018access-date=1 May 2018website=The Wheeler Centre}}
**Finalistlast=date=4 December 2017title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/12/04/99205/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2018-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128220902/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/12/04/99205/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2018-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2022-01-28access-date=2023-02-21website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of ConsciousnessFinalist
For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and HopeFinalist
TrackerFinalist
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus PrisonWinner
Staying: A MemoirFinalistlast=date=12 December 2018title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/12/12/121398/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2019-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215225718/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/12/12/121398/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2019-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2018-12-15access-date=2023-02-21website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
**Finalist
Eggshell SkullFinalist
Miss Ex-YugoslaviaFinalist
AxiomaticFinalist
Sea People: The Puzzle of PolynesiaWinner
**Finalistdate=2019-12-02title=2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/12/02/143249/2020-victorian-premiers-literary-awards-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128115404/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/12/02/143249/2020-victorian-premiers-literary-awards-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2020-01-28access-date=2019-12-02website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic AbuseFinalist
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital TechnologyFinalist
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My MusicFinalist
Gay’wu Group of WomenSongspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through SonglinesFinalist
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing UsWinner
Show Me Where It HurtsFinalistdate=2020-12-08title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/12/08/160636/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207232220/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/12/08/160636/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2020-12-07access-date=2020-12-08website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
WitnessFinalist
and Lynne KellySonglines: The Power and PromiseFinalist
BlueberriesFinalist
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save AustraliaFinalist
**Winnerlast=date=2022-02-04title=Gorrie wins 2022 Victorian Prize for Literatureurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/02/04/209513/gorrie-wins-2022-victorian-prize-for-literature/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203235455/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/02/04/209513/gorrie-wins-2022-victorian-prize-for-literature/archive-date=2022-02-03access-date=2022-02-04website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}''
Coming of Age in the War on TerrorFinalistlast=date=2021-12-07title=VPLAs 2022 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/07/207323/vpla-2022-shortlists-announced/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206235345/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/07/207323/vpla-2022-shortlists-announced/archive-date=2021-12-06access-date=2021-12-07website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing FutureFinalist
Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and ResilienceFinalist**
Buried Not DeadFinalist
Another Day in the ColonyFinalist
Root & Branch: Essays on InheritanceWinnertitle=The 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awardsurl=https://www.wheelercentre.com/victorian-premiers-literary-awards/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2023/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203100916/https://www.wheelercentre.com/victorian-premiers-literary-awards/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2023/archive-date=2023-02-03access-date=2023-02-02website=The Wheeler Centrelanguage=en-US}}
ChildhoodFinalistlast=title=PMLAs 2022 winners, 2023 Indie Book Awards longlists, VPLAs shortlistsurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/01/11/224865/pmlas-2022-winners-2023-indie-book-awards-longlists-vplas-shortlists/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221223708/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/01/11/224865/pmlas-2022-winners-2023-indie-book-awards-longlists-vplas-shortlists/archive-date=2023-02-21access-date=2023-02-21website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AU}}
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong KongFinalist
**Finalist
People Who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose LivingFinalist
Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic about Workers and Their UnionsFinalist
Ellen van NeervenPersonal Score: Sport, culture, identityWinnerlast=Heathfirst=Nicoladate=2024-02-01title=Debut poet takes home $125,000 in prize money for a verse novel that almost wasn't publishedurl=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-01/victorian-prize-literature-winner-poet-grace-yee-chinese-fish/103414668access-date=2024-02-02work=ABC Newslanguage=en-AU}}
Kris KneenFat Girl DancingFinalistdate=2023-12-19title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/12/19/244938/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2024-shortlists-announced/access-date=2023-12-19publisher=Books+Publishing}}
Antony LoewensteinThe Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the worldFinalist
Chris MastersFlawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimesFinalist
David MarrKilling for Country: A family storyFinalist
Jordana SilversteinCruel Care: A history of children at our bordersFinalist
Anything Can HappenWinnerlast=Storyfirst=Hannahdate=2025-03-19title=Growing up, Wanda got old dresses for Xmas. Her book about it just won $125kurl=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/wanda-gibson-victorian-prize-for-literature-three-dresses/105053764access-date=2025-03-19work=ABC Newslanguage=en-AU}}
The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine MaxwellFinalistdate=2025-01-29title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/01/29/265330/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2025-shortlist-announced/access-date=2025-01-29publisher=Books+Publishing}}
MonumentFinalist
Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian DemocracyFinalist
A Very Secret TradeFinalist
AnkamiFinalistdate=2025-12-10title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/12/10/321084/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2026-shortlists-announced/access-date=2025-12-10publisher=Books+Publishing}}
The Eagle and the CrowFinalist
Looking from the North: Australian history from the top downFinalist
Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian familyFinalist
and Ariel BogleConspiracy NationFinalist

Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.19851986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010
Bernard SmithThe Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young BastardWinner
John BrysonEvil AngelsWinner
Hugh StrettonPolitical EssaysWinner
Brian MatthewsLouisaWinner
Paradise Found and LostWinner
The Sixpenny SoldierWinner
Wild CardWinner
Patrick White: A LifeWinner
Mr Bligh's Bad LanguageWinner
Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre 1884-1962Winner
Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, PioneerWinner
Tom GriffithsHunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in AustraliaWinner
Midnight in SicilyWinner
Romulus, My FatherWinner
M: The Man Who Became CaravaggioWinner
**Winner
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000Winner
**Winner
Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal PossessionWinner
Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our CitiesWinner
Twilight of Love: Travels with TurgenevWinner
Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and PhotographyWinner
Richard BroomeAboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800Finalisttitle="Victorian Premier's Literary Award Shortlist"publisher=HeraldSun, 12 August 2006url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/360828069access-date= 26 September 2025id= }}
Anthony M. GibbsBernard Shaw: A Life Finalist
Jacob G. RosenbergEast of TimeFinalist
Craig SherborneHoi PolloiFinalist
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres AustralesWinner
**Winner
**Winner
Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a LifeWinner

Notes

References

References

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