Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - 17th October 2005
Literary awards at Zinc
THE 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards will be announced at Federation Square's Zinc restaurant on October 17 by Premier Steve Bracks.
Actor and Look Both Ways star William McInnes will host the evening, which is cosy, given his wife, Sarah Watt, directed the film and is one of three scriptwriters up for the $15,000 Village Roadshow Prize for screenwriting.
Other nominees are Wain Fimeri for ABC TV's Revealing Gallipoli and Jacqueline Perske for Little Fish. Judges for the prize are Ian Pringle, Claire Dobbin and Christina Pozzan. Meanwhile, writers Raimondo Cortese and Peta Murray and dramaturge Melanie Beddie are judges of the $15,000 Louis Esson Prize for Drama and have shortlisted three works. They have nominated Anthony Crowley for The Frail Man seen at Playbox, Melissa Reeves' The Spook at Company B. Belvoir Street in Sydney, and David Pledger for his company Not Yet Its Difficult's production Blowback staged at St Kilda Memorial Hall last December. A special commendation went to Through the Wire by Ros Horin seen at Grant Street Theatre in May. Plays eligible for the award must have been produced or published in Australia between May 1, 2004 and April 30 this year.
THE 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards will be announced at Federation Square's Zinc restaurant on October 17 by Premier Steve Bracks.
Actor and Look Both Ways star William McInnes will host the evening, which is cosy, given his wife, Sarah Watt, directed the film and is one of three scriptwriters up for the $15,000 Village Roadshow Prize for screenwriting.
Other nominees are Wain Fimeri for ABC TV's Revealing Gallipoli and Jacqueline Perske for Little Fish. Judges for the prize are Ian Pringle, Claire Dobbin and Christina Pozzan. Meanwhile, writers Raimondo Cortese and Peta Murray and dramaturge Melanie Beddie are judges of the $15,000 Louis Esson Prize for Drama and have shortlisted three works. They have nominated Anthony Crowley for The Frail Man seen at Playbox, Melissa Reeves' The Spook at Company B. Belvoir Street in Sydney, and David Pledger for his company Not Yet Its Difficult's production Blowback staged at St Kilda Memorial Hall last December. A special commendation went to Through the Wire by Ros Horin seen at Grant Street Theatre in May. Plays eligible for the award must have been produced or published in Australia between May 1, 2004 and April 30 this year.
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