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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has a remuneration of A$25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional A$100,000.

The prize was formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction from inception until 2010 when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. The Nettie Palmer Prize was valued at A$30,000 in 2010. According to the State Library of Victoria which managed the prize from 1997 to 2010, "This prize is offered for a published work of non-fiction. Books consisting principally of photographs or illustrations are ineligible unless the accompanying text is of substantial length." Palmer wrote regularly for numerous newspapers all round Australia. She wrote on a wide range of topics, from environment to cultural events, reviewing all important books being published in Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction

Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon ().

Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction winners and finalists

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2011	Mark McKenna	An Eye for Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark	Winner
	Tim Bonyhady	Good Living Street	Finalist
	Fiona Capp	My Blood’s Country	Finalist
	Cordelia Fine	Delusions of Gender	Finalist
	Stephen Foster	A Private Empire	Finalist
	Anna Krien	Into the Woods	Finalist
2012	Bill Gammage	The Biggest Estate on Earth	Winner
	James Boyce	1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia	Finalist
	Kerryn Goldsworthy	Adelaide	Finalist
	Simon Leys	The Hall of Uselessness	Finalist
	Brenda Niall	True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack	Finalist
	Alice Pung	Her Father's Daughter	Finalist
2014[a]	Henry Reynolds	Forgotten War	Winner
	Germaine Greer	White Beech	Finalist
	Gideon Haigh	On Warne	Finalist
	Robert Kenny	Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir	Finalist
	Kristina Olsson	Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir	Finalist
	Helen Trinca	Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John	Finalist
	NPY Women's Council	Commended: Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari	Finalist
2015	Alan Atkinson	The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation	Winner
	Erik Jensen	Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen	Finalist
	Tess Lea	Darwin	Finalist
	Tim Low	Where Song Began	Finalist
	Julie Szego	The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama	Finalist
	Don Watson	The Bush	Finalist
2016	Gerald Murnane	Something for the Pain	Winner
	Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan	Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed	Finalist
	Karen Lamb	Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather	Finalist
	George Megalogenis	Australia’s Second Chance	Finalist
	Drusilla Modjeska	Second Half First	Finalist
	Brenda Niall	Mannix	Finalist
2017	Madeline Gleeson	Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru	Winner
	Deng Adut with Ben Mckelvey	Songs of a War Boy	Finalist
	Maxine Beneba Clarke	The Hate Race	Finalist
	Sarah Ferguson with Patricia Drum	The Killing Season Uncut	Finalist
	Kim Mahood	Position Doubtful	Finalist
	Arnold Zable	The Fighter	Finalist
2018	Sarah Krasnostein	The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster	Winner
	Georgia Blain	The Museum of Words: A Memoir of Language, Writing and Mortality	Finalist
	Kate Cole-Adams	Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness	Finalist
	Mary-Rose MacColl	For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and Hope	Finalist
	Alexis Wright	Tracker	Finalist
2019	Behrouz Boochani	No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison	Winner
	Jessie Cole	Staying: A Memoir	Finalist
	Chloe Hooper	The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire	Finalist
	Bri Lee	Eggshell Skull	Finalist
	Sofija Stefanovic	Miss Ex-Yugoslavia	Finalist
	Maria Tumarkin	Axiomatic	Finalist
2020	Christina Thompson	Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia	Winner
	Chloe Higgins	The Girls	Finalist
	Jess Hill	See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse	Finalist
	Lizzie O'Shea	Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology	Finalist
	Archie Roach	Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music	Finalist
	Gay’wu Group of Women	Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through Songlines	Finalist
2021	Paddy Manning	Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us	Winner
	Kylie Maslen	Show Me Where It Hurts	Finalist
	Louise Milligan	Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking Justice	Finalist
	Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly	Songlines: The Power and Promise	Finalist
	Ellena Savage	Blueberries	Finalist
	Victor Steffensen	Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia	Finalist
2022	Amani Haydar	The Mother Wound	Winner
	Randa Abdel-Fattah	Coming of Age in the War on Terror	Finalist
	Danielle Celermajer	Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future	Finalist
	Veronica Gorrie	Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience	Finalist
	Fiona McGregor	Buried Not Dead	Finalist
	Chelsea Watego	Another Day in the Colony	Finalist
2023	Eda Gunaydin	Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance	Winner
	Shannon Burns	Childhood	Finalist
	Louisa Lim	Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong	Finalist
	Kylie Moore-Gilbert	The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison	Finalist
	Sally Olds	People Who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living	Finalist
	Sam Wallman	Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic about Workers and Their Unions	Finalist
2024	Ellen van Neerven	Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity	Winner
	Kris Kneen	Fat Girl Dancing	Finalist
	Antony Loewenstein	The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world	Finalist
	Chris Masters	Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes	Finalist
	David Marr	Killing for Country: A family story	Finalist
	Jordana Silverstein	Cruel Care: A history of children at our borders	Finalist

Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction

Notes

1. Prior to 2014, the award year was directly related to the year of publication. In 2014, the award year referred to books published in the previous year. That is, in 2012, the award went to books published in 2012. In 2014, the award went to books published in 2013.
2. Acute Misfortune was later the basis of the film Acute Misfortune

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• Awards established in 1985