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TWO-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey yesterday won the $30,000 fiction prize in this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
Carey's book, Theft: A Love Story, took out the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. It is the second time the New York-based writer has won the award. The first was in 2001 with A True History of the Kelly Gang.
Premier Steve Bracks also announced Helen Ennis as the winner of the $30,000 Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction. Her book, Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography, tells the story of Austrian- born...