The Age Book of the Year

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The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been 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 are that the works be "of outstanding literary merit and express Australian identity or character"[1] and published in the year before the awards are made. One of the award-winners is chosen as The Age Book of the Year.

Contents

[edit] The Age Book of the Year

A Woman of the Future by David Ireland
Homesickness by Murray Bail

[edit] Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award

A Woman of the Future by David Ireland
Homesickness by Murray Bail

[edit] Non-fiction Award

  • 2007: Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane
  • 2006: Dreamtime Alice by Mandy Sayer
  • 2005: Plenty: Digressions on Food by Gay Bilson
  • 2002: Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister by Don Watson
  • 2000: Craft for a Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
  • 1999: Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K.S. Inglis
  • 1998: The Hunt by John Kinsella
  • 1997: Snake Cradle by Roberta Sykes
  • 1995: The Future Eaters by Tim Flannery
  • 1994: Lyrebird Rising by Jim Davidson
  • 1993: Journeyings by Janet McCalman
  • 1992: A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
  • 1991: Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
  • 1990: Blessed City by Gwen Harwood
  • 1989: Mariners are Warned: John Lort Stokes and HMA Beagle by Marsden Hordern
  • 1988: Big-noting by Robin Gerster
  • 1987: The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
  • 1986: George Johnston: A Biography by Gary Kinnane
  • 1985: Vietnam: A Reporter's War by Hugh Lunn; Mapping the Paddocks by Chester Eagle
  • 1984: HB Higgins: The Rebel and Judge by John Rickard
  • 1983: History of Tasmania by Lloyd Robson
  • 1982: John Monash: A Biography by Geoffrey Serle
  • 1981: A Million Wild Acres by Eric Rolls
  • 1978: The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith
  • 1976: Capitalism, Socialism and the Environment by Hugh Stretton
  • 1974: A History of Australia (Vol. 3) by Manning Clark

[edit] Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize

Dragons in their Pleasant Places by Peter Porter
The Wild Reply by Emma Lew

[edit] First Book

  • 2005: The Unknown Zone by Phil Smithreview

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Wilde et al (1994) p. 23
  2. ^ Cassin, Ray (2007) "Entitled to tell a story" in theage.com.au, 2007-08-25

[edit] References