Melbourne poet Grace Yee wins the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's richest literary award

Melbourne poet Grace Yee has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for her debut verse novel, Chinese Fish. A strong night for First Nations literature Three of the nine winners at the VPLAs were Indigenous writers — including Bundjalung and Kullilli writer and host of ABC RN's The Art Show, Daniel Browning, who won the prize for Indigenous writing for his collection of essays, Close to the Subject: Selected Works. Mununjali writer Ellen van Neerven — an acclaimed poet who won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year in 2021 for their second collection, Throat — won the non-fiction prize for Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity, which is a genre-defying exploration of sport, race, gender and sexuality in Australia. Full list of winners Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature Chinese Fish by Grace Yee Prize for Children's Literature Ghost Book by Remy Lai Prize for Drama The Jungle and the Sea by S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack Prize for Fiction Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko Prize for Indigenous Writing Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel Browning Prize for Non-Fiction Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by Ellen van Neerven Prize for Poetry Chinese Fish by Grace Yee Prize for Writing for Young Adults A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript Panajachel by Rachel Morton People's Choice Award – determined by online public votes via The Wheeler Centre website The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein