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

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

  1. ^ "Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for 'Dancing Home'". Books+Publishing. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  2. ^ Hefner, Bob (1 August 1993). "Writers will headline celebrations". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 26. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  3. ^ Hefner, Robert (3 August 1993). "Hope, Halligan share first ACT annual book award". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 3. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  4. ^ Hefner, Robert (1 September 1994). "Literary award for political trilogy". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 5. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  5. ^ Hefner, Robert (19 July 1995). "Dowse books a place in history". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). p. 5. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  6. ^ Drayson, Nicholas (2009). A guide to the birds of East Africa. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-103596-3. OCLC 276647634.
  7. ^ "ACT Book of the Year and Poetry Prize 2009 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 5 January 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  8. ^ "2010 ACT Book of the Year and Judith Wright Prize winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  9. ^ a b "Gammage wins 2012 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  10. ^ "'The Sex Lives of Australians' named ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  11. ^ "'Beloved Land' wins ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Henshaw wins 2015 ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  13. ^ "Bongiorno wins 2016 ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  14. ^ "Griffiths wins 2017 ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  15. ^ "Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for 'Dancing Home'". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  16. ^ "Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  17. ^ "Fuller wins 2020 ACT Book of the Year for 'Ghost Bird'". Books+Publishing. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  18. ^ "ACT Book of the Year for 2021 revealed". ACT Government. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  19. ^ "ACT Book of the Year Award". artsACT. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  20. ^ "Bongiorno wins ACT Book of the Year". Books+Publishing. 5 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.