Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction

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 A$25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional A$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 A$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

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

Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2011 Blue ribbon Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Winner [1]
Gail Jones Five Bells Finalist [1]
Roger McDonald When Colts Ran Finalist [1]
Craig Sherborne The Amateur Science of Love Finalist [1]
Dominic Smith Bright and Distant Shores Finalist [1]
Rohan Wilson The Roving Party Finalist [1]
2012 Gillian Mears Foal's Bread Winner [2][3]
Anna Funder All That I Am Finalist [2][4]
Wayne Macauley The Cook Finalist [2][4]
Frank Moorhouse Cold Light Finalist [2][4]
Gerald Murnane A History of Books Finalist [2][4]
Carrie Tiffany Mateship with Birds Finalist [2][4]
2014[lower-alpha 1] Alex Miller Coal Creek Winner [5]
Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel Finalist [6][7]
Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Finalist [6][7]
Hannah Kent Burial Rites Finalist [6][7]
Tim Winton Eyrie Finalist [6][7]
Alexis Wright The Swan Book Finalist [6][7]
2015 Rohan Wilson To Name Those Lost Winner [8][9]
Ceridwen Dovey Only the Animals Finalist [8][10][11]
Sonya Hartnett Golden Boys Finalist [8][10][11]
Mark Henshaw The Snow Kimono Finalist [8][10][11]
Wayne Macauley Demons Finalist [8][10][11]
John A. Scott N Finalist [8][10][11]
2016 Mireille Juchau The World Without Us Winner [12][13]
Miles Allinson Fever of Animals Finalist [14]
Stephanie Bishop The Other Side of the World Finalist [14]
James Bradley Clade Finalist [14]
Steven Carroll Forever Young Finalist [14]
Charlotte Wood The Natural Way of Things Finalist [14]
2017 Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a Dog Winner [15]
Micheline Lee The Healing Party Finalist [16]
Sean Rabin Wood Green Finalist [16]
Philip Salom Waiting Finalist [16]
Jock Serong The Rules of Backyard Cricket Finalist [16]
Laura Elizabeth Woollett The Love of a Bad Man Finalist [16]
2018 Melanie Cheng Australia Day Winner [17][18]
Steven Carroll A New England Affair Finalist [17][19]
Michelle de Kretser The Life to Come Finalist [17][19]
Sofie Laguna The Choke Finalist [17][19]
Michael Sala The Restorer Finalist [17][19]
Kim Scott Taboo Finalist [17][19]
2019 Elise Valmorbida The Madonna of the Mountains Winner [20]
Robbie Arnott Flames Finalist [21]
Jay Carmichael Ironbark Finalist [21]
Morenno Giovannoni The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese Finalist [21]
Gail Jones The Death of Noah Glass Finalist [21]
Melissa Lucashenko Too Much Lip Finalist [21]
2020 Christos Tsiolkas Damascus Winner [22][23]
Yumna Kassab The House of Youssef Finalist [24]
Anna Krien Act of Grace Finalist [24]
Wayne Macauley Simpson Returns Finalist [24]
Tara June Winch The Yield Finalist [24]
2021 Blue ribbon Laura Jean McKay The Animals in That Country Winner [25][26][27]
Richard Flanagan The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Finalist [28][29]
Gail Jones Our Shadows Finalist [28][29]
Vivian Pham The Coconut Children Finalist [28][29][30]
2022 Melissa Manning Smokehouse Winner [31][32]
Larissa Behrendt After Story Finalist [33]
Jennifer Down Bodies of Light Finalist [33]
Briohny Doyle Echolalia Finalist [33]
John Hughes The Dogs Finalist [33]
S. J. Norman Permafrost Finalist [33]
2023 Blue ribbon Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Winner [34][35][36]
Brendan Colley The Signal Line Finalist [34][37]
Sophie Cunningham This Devastating Fever Finalist [34][37]
Paul Dalla Rosa An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life Finalist [34][37]
Yumna Kassab The Lovers Finalist [34][37]

Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (1985-2010)
Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1985 David Malouf Antipodes Winner
1986 Peter Carey Illywhacker Winner
1987 Janine Burke Second Sight Winner
1988 Murray Bail Holden's Performance Winner
1989 Rodney Hall Captivity Captive Winner
1990 Tom Flood Oceana Fine Winner
1991 Finola Moorhead Still Murder Winner
1992 Brian Castro Double-Wolf Winner
1993 Brian Castro After China Winner
1994 John A. Scott What I Have Written Winner
1995 Kate Grenville Dark Places Winner
1996 Amanda Lohrey Camille's Bread Winner
1997 Robert Drewe The Drowner Winner
1998 Richard Flanagan The Sound of One Hand Clapping Winner
1999 Roger McDonald Mr. Darwin's Shooter Winner
2000 Christopher Koch Out of Ireland Winner
2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Winner
2002 Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish Winner
2003 Brian Castro Shanghai Dancing Winner [38]
Michelle de Kretser The Hamilton Case Finalist [39]
Sonya Hartnett Of a Boy Finalist [39]
2004 Annamarie Jagose Slow Water Winner [40]
J.M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello Finalist [41]
Malcolm Knox A Private Man Finalist [41]
2005 Sonya Hartnett Surrender Winner [42]
Gail Jones Sixty Lights Finalist [43]
Ian Townsend Affection Finalist [43]
2006 Peter Carey Theft: A Love Story Winner [44]
J.M. Coetzee Slow Man Finalist [45]
Kate Grenville The Secret River Finalist [45]
Carrie Tiffany Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living Finalist [45]
2007 Alexis Wright Carpentaria Winner [46]
Steven Carroll The Time We Have Taken Finalist [47]
Rhyll McMaster Feather Man Finalist [47]
2008 Helen Garner The Spare Room Winner [48]
J.M. Coetzee Diary of a Bad Year Finalist [49]
Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog Finalist [49]
Helen Garner The Spare Room Finalist [49]
2009 Christos Tsiolkas The Slap Winner [50]
Murray Bail The Pages Finalist [51]
Eva Hornung Dog Boy Finalist [51]
Nam Le The Boat Finalist [51]
Tim Winton Breath Finalist [51]
2010 Peter Temple Truth Winner [52]
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America Finalist [53]
Brian Castro The Bath Fugues Finalist [53]
J.M. Coetzee Summertime Finalist [53]
Craig Silvey Jasper Jones Finalist [53]

Notes
  1. Prior to 2014, the award year was directly related to the year of publication. In 2014, the award year referred to books published in the previous year. That is, in 2012, the award went to books published in 2012. In 2014, the award went to books published in 2013.

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