Vogel Literary Award winners announced

Winners of the Vogel Award, Australia's richest prize for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of 35, are ......... Melbourne writer Lisa Lang and Sydney writer Kristel Thornell. They share the $20,000 prize for their novels Utopian Man and Night Street. There were more than 200 entries in the running for this year's award. Vogel winning authors have gone on to win or be shortlisted for other major literary prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award and the Booker Prize. WooHoo!!!