ACT Book of the Year
The ACT Book of the Year is an annual prize of $10,000 awarded for a literary work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry written by an author from the Australian Capital Territory.[1] The award was inaugurated in 1993 with $5,000 prize money.[2]
Winners
[edit]| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Marion Halligan | Lovers' Knot | Heinemann | Joint winners[3] |
| A. D. Hope | Chance Encounters | Melbourne University Press | ||
| 1994 | John Foulcher | New and Selected Poems | Brandl & Schlesinger | [4] |
| 1995 | Sara Dowse | Sapphires | Penguin Group | [5] |
| 1996 | Paul Hetherington | Shadow Swimmer | Molonglo Press | |
| 1997 | Francesca Rendle-Short | Imago | Spinifex Press | |
| 1998 | Lee Chittick | Travelling With Percy : A South Coast Journey | Aboriginal Studies Press | |
| 1999 | Craig Cormick | Unwritten Histories | Aboriginal Studies Press | |
| 2000 | Adrian Caesar | The White: Last days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 | Picador | |
| 2001 | Alan Gould | The Schoonermaster's Dance | Flamingo | Joint Winners |
| Dorothy Johnston | The Trojan Dog | Wakefield Press | ||
| 2002 | Jackie French | In the Blood | Angus & Robertson | |
| 2003 | John Clanchy | The Hard Word | University of Queensland Press | |
| 2004 | Marion Halligan | The Point | Allen & Unwin | |
| 2005 | Tony Kevin | A Certain Maritime Incident : the sinking of SIEV X | Scribe Publications | |
| 2006 | John Clanchy | Vincenzo's Garden | University of Queensland Press | |
| 2007 | Quynh Du Thon That | Sunday Menu : selected short stories of Pham Thi Hoai | Pandanus | |
| 2008 | Tony Kevin | Walking the Camino : A Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago | Scribe Publications | |
| 2009 | Nicholas Drayson | A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: A Novel [6] | Viking | [7] |
| 2010 | Marion Halligan | Valley of Grace | Allen & Unwin | [8] |
| 2011 | Chris Hammer | The River: A journey through the Murray-Darling Basin | Melbourne University Press | [9] |
| 2012 | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Allen & Unwin | [9] |
| 2013 | Frank Bongiorno | The Sex Lives of Australians : A History | Black Inc. | [10] |
| 2014 | Gordon Peake | Beloved land: stories, Struggles and secrets from Timor-Leste | Scribe Publications | [11] |
| 2015 | Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono | Text Publishing | [12] |
| 2016 | Frank Bongiorno | The Eighties : the decade that transformed Australia | Black Inc. | [13] |
| 2017 | Tom Griffiths | The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their craft | Black Inc. | [14] |
| 2018 | Paul Collis | Dancing Home | University of Queensland Press | [15] |
| 2019 | Robyn Cadwallader | Book of Colours | HarperCollins | [16] |
| 2020 | Lisa Fuller | Ghost Bird | University of Queensland Press | [17] |
| 2021 | Subhash Jaireth | Spinoza's Overcoat: Travels with Writers and Poets | Transit Lounge | [18] |
| 2022 | Lucy Neave | Believe in Me | University of Queensland Press | [19] |
| 2023 | Frank Bongiorno | Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia | La Trobe University Press | [20] |
References
[edit]- ^ "Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for 'Dancing Home'". Books+Publishing. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ Hefner, Bob (1 August 1993). "Writers will headline celebrations". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 26. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ Hefner, Robert (3 August 1993). "Hope, Halligan share first ACT annual book award". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 3. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ Hefner, Robert (1 September 1994). "Literary award for political trilogy". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 5. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ Hefner, Robert (19 July 1995). "Dowse books a place in history". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 5. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ Drayson, Nicholas (2009). A guide to the birds of East Africa. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-103596-3. OCLC 276647634.
- ^ "ACT Book of the Year and Poetry Prize 2009 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 5 January 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "2010 ACT Book of the Year and Judith Wright Prize winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Gammage wins 2012 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "'The Sex Lives of Australians' named ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "'Beloved Land' wins ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "Henshaw wins 2015 ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "Bongiorno wins 2016 ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "Griffiths wins 2017 ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ "Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for 'Dancing Home'". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- ^ "Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ "Fuller wins 2020 ACT Book of the Year for 'Ghost Bird'". Books+Publishing. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "ACT Book of the Year for 2021 revealed". ACT Government. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- ^ "ACT Book of the Year Award". artsACT. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- ^ "Bongiorno wins ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 5 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
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