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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has a 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 Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-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 Nettie Palmer Prize was valued at A$30,000 in 2010. According to the State Library of Victoria which managed the prize from 1997 to 2010, "This prize is offered for a published work of non-fiction. Books consisting principally of photographs or illustrations are ineligible unless the accompanying text is of substantial length."[1] Palmer wrote regularly for numerous newspapers all round Australia. She wrote on a wide range of topics, from environment to cultural events, reviewing all important books being published in Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction

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

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Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2011 Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark Winner [2]
Tim Bonyhady Good Living Street Finalist [2]
Fiona Capp My Blood’s Country Finalist [2]
Cordelia Fine Delusions of Gender Finalist [2]
Stephen Foster A Private Empire Finalist [2]
Anna Krien Into the Woods Finalist [2]
2012 Blue ribbon Bill Gammage The Biggest Estate on Earth Winner [3][4]
James Boyce 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia Finalist [3][5]
Kerryn Goldsworthy Adelaide Finalist [3][5]
Simon Leys The Hall of Uselessness Finalist [3][5]
Brenda Niall True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack Finalist [3][5]
Alice Pung Her Father's Daughter Finalist [3][5]
2014[a] Henry Reynolds Forgotten War Winner [6]
Germaine Greer White Beech Finalist [7][8]
Gideon Haigh On Warne Finalist [7][8]
Robert Kenny Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir Finalist [7][8]
Kristina Olsson Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir Finalist [7][8]
Helen Trinca Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John Finalist [7][8]
NPY Women's Council Commended: Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari Finalist [7][8]
2015 Blue ribbon Alan Atkinson The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation Winner [9][10]
Erik Jensen Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen[b] Finalist [9][11][12]
Tess Lea Darwin Finalist [9][11][12]
Tim Low Where Song Began Finalist [9][11][12]
Julie Szego The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama Finalist [9][11][12]
Don Watson The Bush Finalist [9][11][12]
2016 Gerald Murnane Something for the Pain Winner [13][14]
Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed Finalist [15]
Karen Lamb Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather Finalist [15]
George Megalogenis Australia’s Second Chance Finalist [15]
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half First Finalist [15]
Brenda Niall Mannix Finalist [15]
2017 Madeline Gleeson Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru Winner [16]
Deng Adut with Ben Mckelvey Songs of a War Boy Finalist [17]
Maxine Beneba Clarke The Hate Race Finalist [17]
Sarah Ferguson with Patricia Drum The Killing Season Uncut Finalist [17]
Kim Mahood Position Doubtful Finalist [17]
Arnold Zable The Fighter Finalist [17]
2018 Blue ribbon Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster Winner [18][19]
Georgia Blain The Museum of Words: A Memoir of Language, Writing and Mortality Finalist [18][20]
Kate Cole-Adams Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness Finalist [18][20]
Mary-Rose MacColl For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and Hope Finalist [18][20]
Alexis Wright Tracker Finalist [18][20]
2019 Blue ribbon Behrouz Boochani No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Winner [21]
Jessie Cole Staying: A Memoir Finalist [22]
Chloe Hooper The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire Finalist [22]
Bri Lee Eggshell Skull Finalist [22]
Sofija Stefanovic Miss Ex-Yugoslavia Finalist [22]
Maria Tumarkin Axiomatic Finalist [22]
2020 Christina Thompson Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia Winner [23][24]
Chloe Higgins The Girls Finalist [25]
Jess Hill See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse Finalist [25]
Lizzie O'Shea Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology Finalist [25]
Archie Roach Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music Finalist [25]
Gay’wu Group of Women Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through Songlines Finalist [25]
2021 Paddy Manning Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us Winner [26]
Kylie Maslen Show Me Where It Hurts Finalist [27][28]
Louise Milligan Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking Justice Finalist [27][28]
Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly Songlines: The Power and Promise Finalist [27][28]
Ellena Savage Blueberries Finalist [27][28]
Victor Steffensen Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia Finalist [27][28]
2022 Amani Haydar The Mother Wound Winner [29][30]
Randa Abdel-Fattah Coming of Age in the War on Terror Finalist [31]
Danielle Celermajer Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future Finalist [31]
Blue ribbon Veronica Gorrie Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience Finalist [31][29]
Fiona McGregor Buried Not Dead Finalist [31]
Chelsea Watego Another Day in the Colony Finalist [31]
2023 Eda Gunaydin Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance Winner [32][33][34]
Shannon Burns Childhood Finalist [32][35]
Louisa Lim Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong Finalist [32][35]
Kylie Moore-Gilbert The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison Finalist [32][35]
Sally Olds People Who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Finalist [32][35]
Sam Wallman Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic about Workers and Their Unions Finalist [32][35]
2024 Blue ribbon Ellen van Neerven Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity Winner [36][37]
Kris Kneen Fat Girl Dancing Finalist [36]
Antony Loewenstein The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world Finalist [36]
Chris Masters Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes Finalist [36]
David Marr Killing for Country: A family story Finalist [36]
Jordana Silverstein Cruel Care: A history of children at our borders Finalist [36]
2025 Susan Hampton Anything Can Happen Finalist [38]
Lucia Osborn-Crowley The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell Finalist [38]
Bonny Cassidy Monument Finalist [38]
Clare Wright Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy Finalist [38]
Cassandra Pybus A Very Secret Trade Finalist [38]
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Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction

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Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction winners
Year Author Title Ref.
1985 Bernard Smith The Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard [39]
1986 John Bryson Evil Angels [40]
1987 Hugh Stretton Political Essays [41]
1988 Brian Matthews Louisa [42]
1989 Oskar Spate Paradise Found and Lost [43]
1990 Roland Griffiths-Marsh The Sixpenny Soldier [44]
1991 Dorothy Hewett Wild Card
1992 David Marr Patrick White: A Life
1993 Greg Dening Mr Bligh's Bad Language
1994 Jim Davidson Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre 1884-1962
1995 Brenda Niall Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer
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1997 Peter Robb Midnight in Sicily
1998 Raimond Gaita Romulus, My Father
1999 Peter Robb M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
2000 Adrian Caesar The White
2001 Anna Haebich Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
2002 Brenda Niall The Boyds: A Family Biography
2003 Barry Hill Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession [45]
2004 Graeme Davison Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities [46]
2005 Robert Dessaix Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev [47]
2006 Helen Ennis Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography [48]
2007 Danielle Clode Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes [49]
2008 Meredith Hooper The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica [50]
2009 Chloe Hooper The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island [51]
2010 Brenda Walker Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life [52]
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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.
  2. Acute Misfortune was later the basis of the film Acute Misfortune

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