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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.
Veronica Roth will be distracted from her concern at the advent of President Donald Trump by the launch of Carve the Mark, the follow-up to her trilogy.
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.
We take a peak at the nine films nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, which share 59 nominations between them.
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