The Age Book of the Year

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.

The Age Book of the Year

(Years link to corresponding "[year] in literature" or "[year] in Australian literature" articles.)

A Woman of the Future by David Ireland
Homesickness (novel) by Murray Bail

Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award

(Years link to corresponding "[year] in literature".)

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

Non-fiction Award
  • 2012: 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
  • 2011: A Three-Cornered Life by Jim Davidson
  • 2010: Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
  • 2009: Down to the Crossroads by Guy Rundle[5]
  • 2008: American Journeys by Don Watson[6]
  • 2007: Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane[7]
  • 2006: Velocity by Mandy Sayer[8]
  • 2005: Plenty: Digressions on Food by Gay Bilson[9]
  • 2004: A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb[10]
  • 2003: Charles Condor: The Last Bohemian by Ann Galbally
  • 2002: Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister by Don Watson
  • 2001: The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift by Nadia Wheatley[12]
  • 2000: Craft for a Dry Lake by Kim Mahood
  • 1999: Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K.S. Inglis[13]
  • 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: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing by Robin Gerster[14]
  • 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 Charles 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

Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize

(Years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles.)

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

First Book
  • 2005: The Unknown Zone by Phil Smith[15]

References
  1. Wilde et al. (1994) p. 23
  2. The Words That Count
  3. "Winning Words" by Jason Steger The Age, 27 August 2011
  4. 'Simple love story' wins Age award
  5. Steger, Jason (2009) "Apocalyptic novel wins book of the year" in theage.com.au, 22 August 2009
  6. Steger, Jason (2008) "US travel memoir wins Age Book of the Year Award" in theage.com.au, 2008-08-23
  7. Cassin, Ray (2007) "Entitled to tell a story" in theage.com.au, 2007-08-25
  8. Poet of the political takes Age Book of the Year prize
  9. More than restaurants
  10. Totem wins The Age Book of the Year
  11. The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2003
  12. "The Age" 25 August 2001, p12
  13. "The Age" 14 August 1999, Sat Extra p9
  14. "The Age" 9 December 1988, p14
  15. Review
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