The Melbourne Prize for Literature is an award given by the ''Melbourne Prize Trust'', which was founded by Simon Warrender in 2005. The trust grants awards on a rolling three-year basis for Urban Sculpture, Literature and Music, in that order. The first award was presented for Urban Sculpture in 2005.
Melbourne Prize for Literature Recipients
*2006
Helen Garner
*2009
Gerald Murnane
Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel ''The Plains'' (1982). ''The New York Times'', in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer ...
*2012
Alex Miller
Alex Miller (born 4 July 1949) is a Scottish football manager and former player. As a player, he had a 15-year career with Rangers, winning several trophies. As a manager, he won the 1991–92 Scottish League Cup with Hibernian. He subsequen ...
*2015
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
*2018
Alison Lester
*2021
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and t ...
Melbourne Prize for Music Recipients
* 2007 Professor
Paul Grabowsky
Paul Atherstone Grabowsky (born 27 September 1958) is an Australian pianist and composer.
Biography
Born in Lae, Papua New Guinea, Grabowsky is a pianist and composer of music for film, theatre and opera. His father Alistair had lived in Pap ...
AO
*2010 David Jones
*2013
Brett Dean
Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor.
Biography
Brett Dean was born, raised and educated in Brisbane. He started learning violin at the age of eight, and later studied viola with Elizabeth Morgan ...
* 2016 Kutcha Edwards
* 2019
Deborah Cheetham
Deborah Joy Cheetham (born 24 November 1964), is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, actor, composer and playwright.
Early life and education
Cheetham is a member of the Stolen Generations; she was taken from her mother when she was three weeks o ...
AO
Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture Recipients
*2005 OSW: Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Natasha Johns-Messenger and Scott Mitchell
*2008 Alexander Knox
* 2011 Bianca Hester
* 2014 Geoff Robinson
*2017 Daniel von Sturmer
*2020 Beth Arnold, Mikala Dwyer, Emily Floyd, Nicholas Mangan, Kathy Temin and Field Theory (shared between six finalists)
References
External links
Official website Australian literary awards
Awards established in 2004
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