The Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama is a prize category in the annual

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary ...

. The winner of this category prize vies with four other category winners (fiction; non-fiction; poetry; young adult literature) for overall Victorian Prize for Literature. Until 2012, the award was called the

Louis Esson Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (10 August 1878 – 27 November 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist, critic and playwright. He was a co-founder of the Pioneer Players. His second wife, Hilda Esson (nee Bull), had a career in theatre besides work ...

Prize for Drama.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama

Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon ().

Louis Esson Prize for Drama

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{{Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Australian theatre awards Awards established in 1985