Grace Yee has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her poetry collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo) at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs).

The winners in each category are:

Victorian Prize for Literature ($100,000)

• Chinese Fish (Grace Ye, Giramondo)

Fiction ($25,000)

Nonfiction ($25,000)

• Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)

Indigenous writing ($25,000)

• Close to the Subject: Selected works (Daniel Browning, Magabala)

Children’s literature ($25,000)

• Ghost Book (Remy Lai, A&U)

Drama ($25,000)

• The Jungle and the Sea (S Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack, Belvoir St Theatre & Currency Press)

Poetry ($25,000)

• Chinese Fish (Grace Yee, Giramondo)

Writing for young adults ($25,000)

• A Hunger of Thorns (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)

Unpublished manuscript ($15,000)

• ‘Panajachel’ (Rachel Morton).

People’s choice award ($2000)

• The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World (Antony Loewenstein, Scribe).

Winners were announced at a ceremony on 1 February in Melbourne. Last year’s Victorian Prize for Literature winner was Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo).

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