The Age Book of the Year

"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.Wilde et al (1994) p. 23] The criteria are that the works be "of outstanding literary merit and express Australian identity or character" and published in the year before the awards are made. One of the award-winners is chosen as The Age Book of the Year.

"The Age" Book of the Year

*2008: "American Journeys" by Don Watson [ [http://www.theage.com.au/national/us-travel-memoir-wins-age-book-of-the-year-award-20080822-40e3.html Steger, Jason (2008) "US travel memoir wins Age Book of the Year Award" in "theage.com.au", 2008-08-23] ]
*2007: "Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy" by Peter Cochrane [ [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/entitled-to-tell-a-story/2007/08/24/1187462448126.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 Cassin, Ray (2007) "Entitled to tell a story" in "theage.com.au", 2007-08-25] ]
*2006: "Friendly Fire" by Jennifer Maiden
*2005: "Plenty: Digressions on Food" by Gay Bilson
*2004: "Totem" by Luke Davies
*2003: "Of a Boy" by Sonya Hartnett
*2002: "Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister" by Don Watson
*2001: "Untold Lives and Later Poems" by Rosemary Dobson"The Age" 25.08.2001, p12]
*2000: "Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop" by Amy Witting
*1999: "Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape" by K.S. Inglis"The Age" 14.08.1999, Sat Extra p9]
*1998: "Three Dollars" by Elliot Perlman
*1997: "Jack Maggs" by Peter Carey
*1996: "The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow" by Thea Astley
*1995: "The Future Eaters" by Tim Flannery
*1994: "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" by Peter Carey
*1993: "The George's Wife" by Elizabeth Jolley
*1992: "Lover's Knots" by Marion Halligan
*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: "Forty Seventeen" by Frank Moorhouse"The Age" 09.12.1988, p14]
*1987: "Stories from the Warm Zone" by Jessica Anderson
*1986: "Sister Ships" by Joan London
*1985: "Illywhacker" by Peter Carey
*1984: "The Bellarmine Jug" by Nicholas Hasluck
*1983: "Mr Scobie's Riddle" by Elizabeth Jolley
*1982: "Fly Away Peter" by David Malouf
*1980: Joint winners:::"A Woman of the Future" by David Ireland :::"Homesickness" by Murray Bail
*1979: "1915" by Roger McDonald
*1978: "The Year of Living Dangerously" by Christopher Koch
*1976: "A Late Picking" by A. D. Hope
*1975: "A Kindness Cup" by Thea Astley
*1974: "The Pure Land" by David Foster

Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award

*2008: "Breath" by Tim Winton"
*2007: "Every Move You Make" by David Malouf
*2006: "Dead Europe" by Christos Tsiolkas
*2005: "Sixty Lights" by Gail Jones
*2004: "The White Earth" by Andrew McGahan
*2003: "Of a Boy" by Sonya Hartnett
*2002: "Gilgamesh" by Joan London
*2001: "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey
*2000: "Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop" by Amy Witting
*1999: "The Deep Field" by James Bradley
*1998: "Three Dollars" by Elliot Perlman
*1997: "Jack Maggs" by Peter Carey
*1996: "The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow" by Thea Astley
*1995: "Billy Sunday" by Rod Jones
*1994: "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" by Peter Carey
*1993: "The George's Wife" by Elizabeth Jolley
*1992: "Lover's Knots" by Marion Halligan
*1991: "Double Wolf" by Brian Castro
*1990: "Longleg" by Glenda Adams
*1989: "My Father's Moon" by Elizabeth Jolley
*1988: "Forty Seventeen" by Frank Moorhouse
*1987: "Stories from the Warm Zone" by Jessica Anderson
*1986: "Sister Ships" by Joan London
*1985: "Illywhacker" by Peter Carey
*1984: "The Bellarmine Jug" by Nicholas Hasluck
*1983: "Mr Scobie's Riddle" by Elizabeth Jolley
*1982: "Fly Away Peter" by David Malouf
*1981: "Turtle Beach" by Blanche d'Alpuget
*1980: Joint winners:::"A Woman of the Future" by David Ireland :::"Homesickness" by Murray Bail
*1979: "1915" by Roger McDonald
*1978: "The Year of Living Dangerously" by Christopher Koch
*1976: "A Late Picking" by A. D. Hope
*1975: "A Kindness Cup" by Thea Astley
*1974: "The Pure Land" by David Foster

Non-fiction Award

*2008: "American Journeys" by Don Watson
*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
*2001: "The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift" by Nadia Wheatley
*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: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing" 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

Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize

*2008: "Not Finding Wittgenstein" by J. S. Harry
*2007: "The Goldfinches of Baghdad" by Robert Adamson
*2006: "Friendly Fire" by Jennifer Maiden
*2005: "The Colosseum" by Dipti Saravanamuttu
*2004: "Totem" by Luke Davies
*2003: "Mangroves" by Laurie Duggan
*2002: "After Images" by Robert Gray
*2001: "Untold Lives and Later Poems" by Rosemary Dobson
*2000: "Empty Texas" by Peter Minter
*1999: "The Impossible, and other Poems" by R. A. Simpson
*1998: "The Hunt and Other Poems" by John Kinsella
*1997: Joint winners:::"Dragons in their Pleasant Places" by Peter Porter:::"The Wild Reply" by Emma Lew
*1996: "Weeping for Lost Babylon" by Eric Beach
*1995: "Selected poems 1956-1994" by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
*1994: "The Monkey's Mask" by Dorothy Porter
*1993: "At the Florida" by John Tranter

First Book

*2005: "The Unknown Zone" by Phil Smith [ [http://www.randomhouse.co.nz/book_details.aspx?lookup=true&isbn=1869416724 Review] ]

Notes

References

* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/triumph-of-democracy-with-book-of-the-year/2007/08/24/1187462524623.html Steger, Jason (2007) "Triumph of democracy with book of the year" in "theage.com.au", 24 August, 2007] Accessed: 27 August, 2007
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/poet-of-the-political-takes-age-book-of-the-year-prize/2006/08/25/1156012741418.html Steger, Jason (2006) "Poet of the political age take Age Book of the Year prize" in "theage.com.au", 26 August, 2006] Accessed: 13 July, 2007
* Wilde, William H., Hooton, Joy and Andrews, Barry (1994) "The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature" 2nd ed., Melbourne, Oxford University Press