Prize Winners

The Age Book of the Year Award

2007 Shortlist (Fiction)
The time we have taken by Steven Carroll
Sucked in by Shane Maloney
Every move you make by David Malouf
Careless by Deborah Robertson
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

2006 Book of the Year (Fiction): Dead Europe by Christos Tsialkos

2006 Book of the Year (Non-Fiction): Velocity by Mandy Sayer

2005 Book of the Year: Plenty by Gay Bilson

2004 Book of the Year: Totem by Luke Davies

Miles Franklin Award

2007 Winner: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

2006 Winner: The ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald

2005 Winner: The white earth by Andrew McGahan

2004 Winner: The great fire by Shirley Hazzard

2003 Winner: Journey to the stone country by Alex Miller

Commonwealth Writers Prize

2007 Best Book winner: Mr Pip

2006 Best Book winner: The secret river by Kate Grenville

2006 Best First Book winner: Suspended sentences: fictions of atonement by Mark McWatt

2005 Best Book winner: Small island by Andrea Levy

2004 Best Book Award winner: A distant shore by Caryl Phillips

Man Booker Prize (UK)

2007 Winner: The gathering by Anne Enright

2006 Winner: The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai

2005 Winner: The sea by John Banville

2004 Winner: The line of beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

2003 Winner: Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre

2002 Winner: Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

2007 Winner: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

2006 Winner: Theft: a love story by Peter Carey

2003 Winner: Shanghai dancing by Brian Castro

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction

2007 Winner: Voyages to the South Seas: in search of Terres Australia by Danielle Clode

2006 Winner: Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography by Helen Ennis

2005 Winner: Twilight of love: travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix

2004 Winner: Car wars : how the car won our hearts and conquered our cities by Graeme Davison

2003 Winner: Broken song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession by Barry Hill

17-Oct-2007