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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

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 is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts