Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2023 winners announced

2 February 2023

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2023 winners were announced at an awards ceremony held at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre this evening. Twenty-seven titles were included on the shortlist last December, across seven categories. Winners in each category, together with the People’s Choice Award, and Victorian Prize for Literature, are as follows:

People’s Choice Award: Astronomy, Sky Country by Karlie Alinta Noon and Krystal De Napoli
Fiction: Cold Enough for Snow, by Jessica Au
Non-fiction: Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance by Eda Gunaydin
Drama: The Return by John Harvey
Poetry: At The Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
Young Adult Writing: We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray
Indigenous Writing: The Upwelling by Lystra Rose
Unpublished Manuscript: One Divine Night by Mick Cummins
Cold Enough for Snow, by Jessica Au, was named 2023 winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature

The Victorian Prize for Literature is the centrepiece of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and is valued at A$100,000 making it Australia’s single richest literary prize.