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It was a night of mixed emotions as Georgia Blain won a posthumous Victorian Premier's Literary Award and playwright Leah Purcell took out the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature.
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She's already sold the film rights to her first novel, Dry, but praise from the New York Times is more than welcome to Jane Harper.
In an escalating string of insults, Harry Potter author JK Rowling takes on ultra-conservative TV host Piers Morgan.