Victorian Literary Awards

YABBA –Young Australian's Best Books Award 2008

• Section 1: Picture Storybook
  Uno's Garden by Graeme Base
  
  
• Section 2: Fiction - Younger Readers
  Just Shocking by Andy Griffiths (illus. by Terry Denton)
  
  
• Section 3: Fiction - Older Readers
  The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
  
  
• Section 4: Fiction for Years 7 – 9
  Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin

Victorian Premier's Book Awards - 2008

• The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
  The Spare Room by Helen Garner
  
  
• The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non Fiction
  The Ferocious Summer: Palmer Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper
  
  
• The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
  Press Release by Lisa Gorton
  
  
• The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
  When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell
  
  
• The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
  Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Brigid Lowry
  
  
• The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
  Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show by Marcia Langton
  
  
• The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
  Going Finish by Mandy Maroney
  
  
• The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing About Italians in Australia
  Head over Heel by Chris Harrison
  
  
• The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
  Out of Control: The Tragedy of Tasmania’s Forests
  
  
• The Prize for a First Book of History
  The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
  
  
• The Prize for Indigenous Writing
  Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Holt
  
  
• The Prize for Best Music Theatre Script
  The Wild Blue with music, lyrics and book by Anthony Crowley