Memoir about racism and resilience wins $100,000 literary prize

Australia’s richest literary prize has been won by Gunai/Kurnai writer Veronica Gorrie for her memoir about serving in the police force.

4 Feb 2022 10:54

Richard Watts

Writing and Publishing

Award winner Veronica Gorrie. Photo credit: T.J. Garvie.

Gunai/Kurnai writer Veronica Gorrie has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her memoir Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience.

The prize was awarded on Thursday night at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, where Gorrie also received the $25,000 Prize for Indigenous Writing.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts