Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama


The Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The winner of this category prize vies with four other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature.
Until 2012, the award was called the Louis Esson Prize for Drama.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama

Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon.
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2012'Winner
2012NationalFinalist
2012BoxmanFinalist
2014SavagesWinner
2014'Finalist
2014 and Kate MulvanyMedeaFinalist
2015ResplendenceWinner
2015MayakovskyFinalist
2015'Finalist
2016 BrokenWinner
2016MortidoFinalist
2016SHITFinalist
2016I am a MiracleHighly commended
2017 'Winner
2017Girl Shut Your MouthFinalist
2017Trigger WarningFinalist
2018RiceWinner
2018Black is the New WhiteFinalist
2018'Finalist
2019'Winner
2019Going DownFinalist
2019 and Alana ValentineBarbara and the Camp DogsFinalist
2020 Counting and CrackingWinner
2020ThemFinalist
2020City of GoldFinalist
2021WonnangattaWinner
2021SLAP. BANG. KISS.Finalist
2021Sunshine Super Girl: The Evonne Goolagong StoryFinalist
2021Wherever She WandersHighly Commend
2021Torch the PlaceHighly Commend
2022MilkWinner'
2022Return to the DirtFinalist
2022Archimedes WarFinalist
2022 & Catherine RyanDoggedHighly commend
2023'Winner
2023Golden BloodFinalist
2023Whitefella Yella TreeFinalist
2024Declan Furber GillickJackyFinalist
2024S. Shakthidharan and Eamon FlackThe Jungle and the SeaFinalist
2024Christos Tsiolkas and Dan GiovannoniLoadedFinalist
202537Winner
2025Frame NarrativeFinalist
2025Into the Shimmering WorldFinalist
2026SuperFinalist
2026Fly GirlFinalist
2026The Black Woman of GippslandFinalist