Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Winners & Shortlist 2009

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
Winner
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Shortlist
* The Pages by Murray Bail
* Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
* The Boat by Nam Le
* The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
* Breath by Tim Winton

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
Winner
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island byChloe Hooper
Shortlist
* The City's Outback by Gillian Cowlishaw
* Arabesques by Robert Dessaix
* The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
* House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroger-Mann by Evelyn Juers
* Darwin's Armada by Iain McCalman