The winners of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) were announced at a ceremony in Federation Square in Melbourne this evening (Wednesday 19 March). Nukgal Wurra author-artist, Wanda Gibson was awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, for her picture book Three Dresses – marking the first time the winner of the Children’s Prize for Literature has taken out the overall prize.
Now in its 40th year, the VPLAs is one of the most lucrative literary awards in the country, with a total prize pool of $315,000 gifted across the nine categories in the awards suite and an extra $2000 for the People’s Choice Award, gifted by The Wheeler Centre. The overarching winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature also receives a further $100,000, Australia’s single richest literary prize.
