Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama

The Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The winner of this category prize vies with four other category winners (fiction; non-fiction; poetry; young adult literature) for overall Victorian Prize for Literature.

Until 2012, the award was called the Louis Esson Prize for Drama.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama

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

Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2012 Lally Katz A Golem Story Winner [1][2]
Aidan Fennessy National Finalist [1][3]
Daniel Keene Boxman Finalist [1][3]
2014[lower-alpha 1] Patricia Cornelius Savages Winner [4]
Kate Grenville The Secret River Finalist [5][6]
Anne-Louise Sarks and Kate Mulvany Medea Finalist [5][6]
2015 Angus Cerini Resplendence Winner [7][8]
Alison Croggon Mayakovsky Finalist [7][9][10]
Daniel Keene The Long Way Home Finalist [7][9][10]
2016 Blue ribbon Mary Anne Butler Broken Winner [11][12]
Angela Betzien Mortido Finalist [13]
Patricia Cornelius SHIT Finalist [13]
Declan Greene I am a Miracle Highly commended [13]
2017 Blue ribbon Leah Purcell The Drover's Wife Winner [14]
Gita Bezard Girl Shut Your Mouth Finalist [15]
Zoë Coombs Marr Trigger Warning Finalist [15]
2018 Michele Lee Rice Winner [16][17]
Nakkiah Lui Black is the New White Finalist [18][19]
Kate Mulvany The Rasputin Affair Finalist [18][19]
2019 Kendall Feaver The Almighty Sometimes Winner [20][21]
Michele Lee Going Down Finalist [22]
Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine Barbara and the Camp Dogs Finalist [22]
2020 Blue ribbon S. Shakthidharan (and associated writer Eamon Flack) Counting and Cracking Winner [23][24][25]
Samah Sabawi Them Finalist [26]
Meyne Wyatt City of Gold Finalist [26]
2021 Angus Cerini Wonnangatta Winner [27]
Dan Giovannoni SLAP. BANG. KISS. Finalist [28][29]
Andrea James Sunshine Super Girl: The Evonne Goolagong Story Finalist [28][29]
Kendall Feaver Wherever She Wanders Highly Commend [28][29]
Benjamin Law Torch the Place Highly Commend [28][29]
2022 Dylan Van Den Berg Milk Winner [30][31]
Steve Perie Return to the Dirt Finalist [32]
Melissa Reeves Archimedes War Finalist [33]
Andrea James & Catherine Ryan Dogged Highly commend [34]
2023 John Harvey The Return Winner [35][36][37]
Merlynn Tong Golden Blood Finalist [38][39]
Dylan Van Den Berg Whitefella Yella Tree Finalist [38][39]

Louis Esson Prize for Drama
Louis Esson Prize for Drama winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1985 David Allen Cheapside Winner [40]
1986 Janis Balodis Too Young for Ghosts Winner [41]
1987 Ben Lewin A Matter of Convenience Winner [42]
1988 Alma De Groen The Rivers of China Winner
1989 Daniel Keene Silent Partner Winner
1990 Sam Sejavka The Hive Winner [43]
1991 Katherine Thomson Diving for Pearls Winner
1992 Jocelyn Moorhouse Proof Winner
1993 Michael Gurr Sex Diary of an Infidel Winner
1994 Louis Nowra The Temple Winner [44]
1995 Barry Dickins Remembering Ronald Ryan Winner [45]
1996 Joanna Murray-Smith Honour Winner
1997 Michael Gurr Jerusalem Winner
1998 Daniel Keene Every Minute, Every Hour, Every Day Winner [46]
1999 Catherine Zimdahl Clark in Sarajevo Winner [47]
2000 Hannie Rayson Life After George Winner
2001 Peta Murray Salt Winner
2002 Andrew Bovell Holy Day Winner
2003 Joanna Murray-Smith Rapture Winner
2004 Stephen Sewell Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America Winner
2005 Melissa Reeves The Spook Winner
2006 Stephen Sewell Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon Winner
2007 Jane Bodie A Single Act Winner
Kit Lazaroo Asylum Finalist [48]
Stephen Sewell It Just Stopped Finalist [48]
2008 Andrew Bovell When the Rain Stops Falling Winner [49][50]
Wesley Enoch The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table Finalist [50]
Michael Gow Toy Symphony Finalist [50]
2009 Lally Katz Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd Winner
Paul Galloway Realism Finalist [51]
Damien Millar The Modern International Dead Finalist [51]
2010 Tom Holloway And No More Shall We Part Winner [52]
Declan Greene Moth Finalist [53]
Melissa Reeves Furious Mattress Finalist [53]
2011 Patricia Cornelius Do not go gentle… Winner [54]
Jane Montgomery Griffiths Sappho…in 9 fragments Finalist [54]
Raimondo Cortese Intimacy Finalist [54]

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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