Non-Binary Wins Victorian Premier’s Literary People’s Choice Awards
The winners of the taxpayer funded Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 were announced in a ceremony on 1st February. The awards however are not administered by the Premier himself instead by the Wheeler Centre who hosted the awards ceremony. The Centre aims to facilities public talks by writers and intellectuals in Melbourne.
The winners for five categories are decided b
y a judging panel of three selected by the Wheeler Centre. Then there is the People’s Choice Award which is open to voting from the public on the Wheeler Centre’s website. Winners of the main five categories receive a cash prize of $25,000 and the winner of the People’s Choice Award receives $2,000.
The six award winners plus the winners of two further awards the Unpublished Manuscript Award and the biennial Award for Indigenous Writing then go into the running to win another award the Victorian Prize for Literature.
There was much celebration amongst social media users than none of the six main award winners were cis-white males. Certainly if an award ceremony had no female or non-white winners there would outrage.
High profile degenerate writer Benjamin law who is always eager to highlight he is gay and Asian was pleased that the winners were all women and including queers and women of colour.
Late to it, but so bloody pleased about this year's Victorian premier’s literary awards winners. All women – amongst them, many women of colour and queer writers. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/01/sarah-krasnostein-wins-125000-at-australias-richest-literary-prize#img-1 … (by @stephharmon) pic.twitter.com/xNZ9TNAj1c
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However it was pointed out to him that the winner of the People’s Choice Award Alison Evans identifies as non-binary. Law was quick to issue a wholehearted apology for the grave crime of misgendering someone.