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History
The Melbourne Prize runs on a three-year awards cycle, alternating between literature, music, and urban sculpture.
Notes
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Awarded, by the Melbourne Prize Trust, every three years to a Victorian writer in recognition of outstanding literary achievement.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
winner Christos Tsiolkas -
Year: 2018
winner Alison Lester -
Year: 2015
winner And the World Was Calm i "Sandbags of sugar cannot conceal the gloomy fact", 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: For Crying Out Loud 1990; (p. 38-39) The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry 1991; (p. 190-191) The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse 1996; (p. 119-120) New and Selected Poems 2013; (p. 243-245) -
Year: 2012
winner Alex Miller -
Year: 2009
winner Gerald Murnane
Works About this Award
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Christos Tsiolkas Wins $60,000 Literary Award 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , November 2021; -
“The Slap” Author Christos Tsiolkas Is a Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021 Finalist 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , September 2021; -
Body of Work : Wallace-Crabbe Lands Top Literary Prize 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 November 2015; (p. 31) -
A Miller's Tale 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Voice , 11 March - 8 April vol. 9 no. 3 2013; (p. 7) -
Miller Wins Melbourne Literature Prize; Sherborne Wins Best Writing Prize 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2012/13 vol. 92 no. 3 2012; (p. 7)
