Children's Peace Literature Award

Children's Peace Literature Award is an Australian literary prize awarded every other year by the South Australian Psychologists for Peace, an interest group of the Australian Psychological Society.[1]

The Children's Peace Literature Award was inaugurated in 1987, when Gillian Rubinstein won for her book Space Demons.[1]

Award winners

Year Author Title Publisher References
1987 Gillian Rubinstein Space Demons Omnibus Books [1][2]
1989 Victor Kelleher The Makers Puffin [2]
1991 Libby Gleeson Dodger Puffin [2]
1993 Isobelle Carmody The Gathering Puffin joint winners[2][3]
Bob Graham Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten Penguin Books
1995 Brian Caswell Deucalion University of Queensland Press [2]
1997 James Moloney A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove University of Queensland Press [2]
1999 Phillip Gwynne Deadly Unna Penguin Books [2]
2001 James Moloney Touch Me University of Queensland Press [2]
2003 Irini Savvides Sky Legs Hodder Headline Australia [2]
2005 Kirsten Murphy The King of Whatever Penguin Books [2]
2007 Michael Gerard Bauer Don't Call Me Ishmael Omnibus [2]
2009 Christine Harris Audrey Goes to Town Little Hare Books joint winners[2]
Kate Constable Winter for Grace Allen & Unwin
2011 Sue Walker Arnie Avery Walker Books [2][4]
2013 Aaron Blabey The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Penguin junior readers[2][5]
Barry Jonsberg My Life as an Alphabet Allen & Unwin older readers[2][5]
2015 Nicole Hayes One True Thing Random House Australia [2][6]
2017 Phil Cummings Boy Scholastic Australia [2][7]
2019 Sue deGennaro Missing Marvin Scholastic Australia [2][8]
2021 Fiona Hardy How to Write the Soundtrack to Your Life Affirm [9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Psychologists for Peace Interest Group Children's Peace Literature Award | APS". www.psychology.org.au. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Children's Peace Literature Award". AustLit. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  3. ^ "New talent in town: Isobelle Carmody | UNSW Canberra". www.unsw.adfa.edu.au. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Sue Walker - Authors & Illustrators - Welcome to Walker Books Australia". www.walkerbooks.com.au. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Children's Peace Literature Award 2013 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 January 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  6. ^ "One True Thing by Nicole Hayes". www.penguin.co.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  7. ^ "'Boy' wins 2017 Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  8. ^ "'Missing Marvin' wins Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 12 November 2019. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Hardy wins 2021 Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.