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2009 Recipients

Melbourne Prize for Literature 2009
Gerald Murnane

Best Writing Award 2009
Nam Le
The Boat
(Penguin, 2008)

Civic Choice Award 2009
Amra Pajalic
The Good Daughter
(Text Publishing, 2009)

 

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Melbourne Prize for Literature 2009 finalists
Barry Hill
Hannie Rayson
Shane Maloney
Alex Miller
Gerald Murnane

Best Writing Award 2009 finalists
Tom Cho — Look Who’s Morphing, Giramondo
Joel Deane — Magisterium, Arcadia
Lisa Gorton — Press Release, Giramondo
Chloe Hooper — The Tall Man, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
Simmone Howell — Everything Beautiful, Pan Macmillan
Myfanwy Jones — The Rainy Season, Viking
Lally Katz — Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, HLA
Nam Le — The Boat, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
Amra Pajalic — The Good Daughter, Text
Jeff Sparrow — Killing, Melbourne University Press