Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 40 (2024) Winner
Grace Yee
グレイス・イー
Gureisu Ī
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- British Hong Kong
- Nationality
- New Zealander, Australian
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- British Hong Kong → New Zealand → Australia
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Creative writing teacher
- Active Years
- 2019-
- Affiliations
- State Library of Victoria
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deakin University | — | Literature | MA | — | Australia |
| University of Melbourne | — | — | PhD | — | Australia |
Deakin University
Literature
Degree:
MA
Country:
Australia
MA
University of Melbourne
Degree:
PhD
Year of Graduation:
2016
Country:
Australia
Thesis: Beneath the Long White Cloud: settler Chinese women's storytelling in Aotearoa New Zealand
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Victorian Prize for Literature | Chinese Fish | 文学 | Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | winner |
| 2024 | Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry | Chinese Fish | 詩 | Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | winner |
| 2024 | Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry | Chinese Fish | 詩 | Ockham New Zealand Book Awards | winner |
| 2019 | Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize | Chinny Chin Chin | 詩 | Overland | third place |
| 2020 | Patricia Hackett Prize | For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne | — | — | winner |
| 2020 | Peter Steele Poetry Award | — | — | — | winner |
| 2023 | Anne Elder Award | Chinese Fish | — | — | highly commended |
Victorian Prize for Literature
2024
Work:
Chinese Fish
Category:
文学
Organization:
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
Result:
winner
Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry
2024
Work:
Chinese Fish
Category:
詩
Organization:
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
Result:
winner
Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
2024
Work:
Chinese Fish
Category:
詩
Organization:
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Result:
winner
Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
2019
Work:
Chinny Chin Chin
Category:
詩
Organization:
Overland
Result:
third place
Patricia Hackett Prize
2020
Work:
For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne
Result:
winner
Peter Steele Poetry Award
2020
Result:
winner
Anne Elder Award
2023
Work:
Chinese Fish
Result:
highly commended
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Chinese Fish
2023 Verse novelA verse novel telling the story of early Chinese settlers in New Zealand, adapted from the author's PhD thesis.
Chinese settlersWomen's storytellingSettler colonialism
Bibliography
- Chinese Fish (Giramondo Publishing, 2023)
- For the Chinese Merchants of Melbourne (Best of Australian Poems 2021)
- Tabulations (A Nine Year) (Best of Australian Poems 2022)
- chinny chin chin and others (A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Verse novelGenre-bending poetry
- Recurring Motifs
- Chinese migrant experiencesWomen's voices
Legacy
Debut verse novel Chinese Fish won multiple major awards, establishing her as a prominent poet.