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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an 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 Vance Palmer Prize for 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 Palmer Prize was valued at 30,000 in 2010. The award was named after Vance Palmer, a leading literary critic. Palmer wrote reviews and presented a program called ''Current Books Worth Reading'' on ABC Radio. He also wrote books about Australian cultural life, including ''National Portraits'' (1940) ''A.G. Stephens: His Life and Work'', (1941) ''Frank Wilmot'' (1942), ''Old Australian bush ballads'' (co-authored with Margaret Sutherland) (1951) and ''The Legend of the Nineties'' (1954). He was appointed in Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund in 1947. The Palmer Prize was managed by the State Library of Victoria from 1997 to 2010. == Winners and shortlists == Blue ribbon () = winner. *2014 * *Hannah Kent, ''Burial Rites'' * *Richard Flanagan, ''The Narrow Road to the Deep North'' * * Alex Miller, ''Coal Creek'' * *Alexis Wright, ''The Swan Book'' * *Tim Winton, ''Eyrie'' * *Michelle de Kretser, ''Questions of Travel'' *2013 Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) for books published in 2013. *2012 * * Gillian Mears, ''Foal's Bread'' * *Gerald Murnane, ''A History of Books'' * *Wayne Macauley, ''The Cook'' * *Carrie Tiffany, ''Mateship with Birds'' * *Anna Funder, ''All That I Am'' * *Frank Moorhouse, ''Cold Light'' *2011 * *Gail Jones, ''Five Bells'' * *Roger McDonald, ''When Colts Ran'' * *Rohan Wilson, ''The Roving Party'' * *Dominic Smith, ''Bright and Distant Shores'' * *Craig Sherborne, ''The Amateur Science of Love'' * * Kim Scott, ''That Deadman Dance'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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