The Age Book of the Year Awards

The Age Book of the Year Awards were annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. After 1998, they were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Initially, two awards were given, one for fiction (or imaginative writing), the other for non-fiction work, but in 1993, a poetry award in honour of Dinny O'Hearn was added.[1] The criteria were that the works be "of outstanding literary merit and express Australian identity or character,"[1] and be published in the year before the award was made. One of the award-winners was chosen as The Age Book of the Year. The awards were discontinued in 2013. In 2021 The Age Book of the Year was revived as a fiction prize, with the winner announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival.[2]

The Age Book of the Year
The Age Book of the Year Awards winners
Year Author Title Ref.
1974 David Foster The Pure Land
1975 Thea Astley A Kindness Cup
1976 A. D. Hope A Late Picking
1978 Christopher Koch The Year of Living Dangerously
1979 Roger McDonald 1915: A Novel of Gallipoli
1980 David Ireland A Woman of the Future
Murray Bail Homesickness
1982 David Malouf Fly Away Peter
1983 Elizabeth Jolley Mr Scobie's Riddle
1984 Nicholas Hasluck The Bellarmine Jug
1985 Peter Carey Illywhacker
1986 Joan London Sister Ships
1987 Jessica Anderson Stories from the Warm Zone
1988 Frank Moorhouse Forty-Seventeen [3]
1989 Marsden Hordern Mariners are Warned: John Lort Stokes and HMA Beagle
1990 Gwen Harwood Blessed City
1991 David Marr Patrick White: A Life
1992 Marion Halligan Lover's Knots
1993 Elizabeth Jolley The George's Wife
1994 Peter Carey The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
1995 Tim Flannery The Future Eaters
1996 Thea Astley The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
1997 Peter Carey Jack Maggs
1998 Elliot Perlman Three Dollars
1999 K.S. Inglis Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape [4]
2000 Amy Witting Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
2001 Rosemary Dobson Untold Lives and Later Poems [5]
2002 Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating PM
2003 Sonya Hartnett Of a Boy [6]
2004 Luke Davies Totem [7]
2005 Gay Bilson Plenty: Digressions on Food [8]
2006 Jennifer Maiden Friendly Fire [9]
2007 Peter Cochrane Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy [10]
2008 Don Watson American Journeys [11]
2009 Steven Amsterdam Things We Didn't See Coming [12]
2010 Alex Miller Lovesong [13]
2011 Fiona McGregor Indelible Ink [14]
2012 James Boyce 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia [15]
2021 Robbie Arnott The Rain Heron [16][17]

Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award
Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award winners
Year Author Title Ref.
1974 David Foster The Pure Land
1975 Thea Astley A Kindness Cup
1976 A. D. Hope A Late Picking
1978 Christopher Koch The Year of Living Dangerously
1979 Roger McDonald 1915: A Novel of Gallipoli
1980 David Ireland A Woman of the Future
Murray Bail Homesickness
1981 Blanche d'Alpuget Turtle Beach
1982 David Malouf Fly Away Peter
1983 Elizabeth Jolley Mr Scobie's Riddle
1984 Nicholas Hasluck The Bellarmine Jug
1985 Peter Carey Illywhacker
1986 Joan London Sister Ships
1987 Jessica Anderson Stories from the Warm Zone
1988 Frank Moorhouse Forty-Seventeen [3]
1989 Elizabeth Jolley My Father's Moon
1990 Glenda Adams Longleg
1991 Brian Castro Double-Wolf
1992 Marion Halligan Lover's Knots
1993 Elizabeth Jolley The George's Wife
1994 Peter Carey The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
1995 Rod Jones Billy Sunday
1996 Thea Astley The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow [4]
1998 Elliot Perlman Three Dollars
1999 James Bradley The Deep Field
2000 Amy Witting Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang [5]
2002 Joan London Gilgamesh
2003 Sonya Hartnett Of a Boy
2004 Andrew McGahan The White Earth [7]
2005 Gail Jones Sixty Lights [8]
2006 Christos Tsiolkas Dead Europe [9]
2007 David Malouf Every Move You Make [10]
2008 Tim Winton Breath [11]
2009 Steven Amsterdam Things We Didn't See Coming [12]
2010 Alex Miller Lovesong
2011 Fiona McGregor Indelible Ink
2012 Gillian Mears Foal's Bread

Non-fiction Award
Non-fiction Award winners
Year Author Title Ref.
1974 Manning Clark A History of Australia (Vol. 3)
1976 Hugh Stretton Capitalism, Socialism and the Environment
1978 Patsy Adam-Smith The Anzacs
1981 Eric Charles Rolls A Million Wild Acres
1982 Geoffrey Serle John Monash: A Biography
1983 Lloyd Robson History of Tasmania
1984 John Rickard HB Higgins: The Rebel and Judge
1985 Chester Eagle Mapping the Paddocks
1985 Hugh Lunn Vietnam: A Reporter's War
1986 Garry Kinnane George Johnston: A Biography
1987 Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore
1988 Robin Gerster Big-Noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing [3]
1989 Marsden Hordern Mariners are Warned: John Lort Stokes and HMA Beagle
1990 Gwen Harwood Blessed City
1991 David Marr Patrick White: A Life
1992 Ruth Park A Fence Around the Cuckoo
1993 Janet McCalman Journeyings
1994 Jim Davidson Lyrebird Rising
1995 Tim Flannery The Future Eaters
1997 Roberta Sykes Snake Cradle
1998 John Kinsella The Hunt
1999 K.S. Inglis Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape [4]
2000 Kim Mahood Craft for a Dry Lake
2001 Nadia Wheatley The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift [5]
2002 Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister
2003 Ann Galbally Charles Condor: The Last Bohemian
2004 Peter Robb A Death in Brazil [7]
2005 Gay Bilson Plenty: Digressions on Food [8]
2006 Mandy Sayer Velocity [9]
2007 Peter Cochrane Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy [10]
2008 Don Watson American Journeys [11]
2009 Guy Rundle Down to the Crossroads [12]
2010 Kate Howarth Ten Hail Marys
2011 Jim Davidson A Three-Cornered Life
2012 James Boyce 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia

Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize
Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize winners
Year Author Title Ref.
1993 John Tranter At the Florida
1994 Dorothy Porter The Monkey's Mask
1995 Chris Wallace-Crabbe Selected poems 1956–1994
1996 Eric Beach Weeping for Lost Babylon
1997 Emma Lew The Wild Reply
1997 Peter Porter Dragons in their Pleasant Places
1998 John Kinsella The Hunt and Other Poems
1999 R. A. Simpson The Impossible, and other Poems [4]
2000 Peter Minter Empty Texas
2001 Rosemary Dobson Untold Lives and Later Poems [5]
2002 Robert Gray After Images
2003 Laurie Duggan Mangroves
2004 Luke Davies Totem [7]
2005 Dipti Saravanamuttu The Colosseum [8]
2006 Jennifer Maiden Friendly Fire [9]
2007 Robert Adamson The Goldfinches of Baghdad [10]
2008 J. S. Harry Not Finding Wittgenstein [11]
2009 Peter Porter Better Than God [12]
2010 Jennifer Maiden Pirate Rain
2011 John Tranter Starlight: 150 Poems
2012 Mal McKimmie The Brokenness Sonnets I-III And Other Poems

First Book
  • 2005: The Unknown Zone by Phil Smith[18]

References
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  4. "The Age" 14 August 1999, Sat Extra p9
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  6. "The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2003". Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
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  8. "More than restaurants". The Age. 20 August 2005. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
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  12. Steger, Jason (22 August 2009). "Apocalyptic novel wins book of the year". The Age. Archived from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
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  14. Steger, Jason (26 August 2011). "Winning words". The Age. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  15. Steger, Jason (24 August 2012). "The words that count". The Age. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  16. "'The Rain Heron' wins Age Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  17. Steger, Jason (3 September 2021). "Robbie Arnott's Rain Heron swoops on the Age Book of the Year". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
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