Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2017 winners: Georgia Blain wins posthumous prize

By Jason Steger
Updated February 12 2017 - 1:09pm, first published January 31 2017 - 7:09pm
The late Georgia Blain has been awarded a posthumous Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog. Photo: Simon Alekna
The late Georgia Blain has been awarded a posthumous Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog. Photo: Simon Alekna
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards winners (left to right) Madeline Gleeson, Maxine Beneba Clarke Randa Abdel-Fattah, and Leah Purcell. Photo: Joe Armao, Fairfax Media,
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards winners (left to right) Madeline Gleeson, Maxine Beneba Clarke Randa Abdel-Fattah, and Leah Purcell. Photo: Joe Armao, Fairfax Media,

There could have hardly been a more poignant moment at an awards ceremony. Georgia Blain, the novelist, short-story writer and memoirist who died in December, has won this year's Victorian Premier's Award for fiction for her final novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog. The $25,000 prize was accepted by her partner, Andrew Taylor.

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