Research Guides
Australian Literary Awards: Age Book of the Year
Lists of award-winning authors and their works for 12 major Australian literary awards.
Age Book of the Year Award Fiction Winners: 1974 - 2011 (Ceased)
- 2011 – Fiona McGregor - Indelible Ink
- 2010 – Alex Miller - Lovesong
- 2009 – Steven Amsterdam - Things We Didn't See Coming
- 2008 – Tim Winton - Breath
- 2007 – David Malouf - Every Move You Make
- 2006 – Jennifer Maiden - Friendly Fire
- 2005 – Gay Bilson - Plenty
- 2004 – Luke Davies - Totem
- 2003 – Sonya Hartnett - Of a Boy
- 2002 – Don Watson - Recollections of a Bleeding Heart
- 2001 – Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
- 2000 – Amy Witting - Isobel on the Way to the Cornershop
- 1999 – Ken Inglis - Sacred Places
- 1998 – Elliott Perlman - Three Dollars
- 1997 – Roberta Sykes - Snake Cradle
- 1996 – Thea Astley - The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
- 1995 – Rod Jones - Billy Sunday
- 1994 – Peter Carey - The Unusual Life of Tristam Smith
- 1993 – Elizabeth Jolley - The Georges’ Wife, John Tranter - At the Florida
- 1992 – Marion Halligan - Lover’s Knots
- 1991 – Brian Castro - Double Wolf, David Marr - Patrick White: A Life
- 1990 – Gwen Harwood - Blessed City, Glenda Adams - Longleg
- 1989 – Elizabeth Jolley - My Father’s Moon
- 1988 – Frank Moorhouse - Forty-seventeen
- 1987 – Jessica Anderson - Stories from the Warm Zone
- 1986 – Joan London - Sister Ships
- 1985 – Peter Carey - Illywhacker
- 1984 – Nicholas Hasluck - The Bellarmine Jug
- 1983 – Elizabeth Jolley - Mr Scobie’s Riddle
- 1982 – David Malouf - Fly Away Peter
- 1981 – Blanche d’Alpuget - Turtle Beach
- 1980 – David Ireland - A Woman of the Future, Murray Bail - Homesickness
- 1979 – Roger McDonald - 1915
- 1978 – Christopher Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
- 1977 – Graham Freudenberg - A Certain Grandeur
- 1976 – A. D. Hope - A Late Picking
- 1975 – Thea Astley - A Kindness Cup
- 1974 - David Foster - The Pure Land
About the Age Book of the Year Award
- Age Book of the Year AwardThe 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 (fiction and non-fiction), but in 1993, a poetry award was added. The criteria are that the works be "of outstanding literary merit and express Australian identity or or character" and published in the year before the awards are made.
