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Play script wins top literary award for first time

The $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature has been awarded to a work of drama for the first time in the Award’s history.

29 Jan 2016 12:00

Richard Watts

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A scene from Mary Anne Butler’s Broken. Photo by Glenn Campbell

Darwin resident Mary Anne Butler has become the first playwright to win Australia’s richest literary award, the Victorian Prize for Literature.

Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley awarded the $100,000 prize to Butler’s play Broken at the 2016 Premier’s Literary Awards ceremony, held in the gardens of Parliament House in Melbourne on Thursday night.

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Richard Watts

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