The Age Book of the Year Award. Literary Awards Australlia. Winners. Shortlists.

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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. 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.

Book of the Year - Fiction - Nonfiction - Poetry

The Age Book of the Year

* 2008: American Journeys by Don Watson
* 2007: Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane
* 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
* 2001: Untold Lives and Later Poems by Rosemary Dobson
* 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
* 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 Tristam 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
* 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
* 2000: Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop by Amy Witting
* 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

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
* 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 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
* 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
* 1999: The Impossible, and other Poems by R. A. Simpson
* 1997: Joint winners

Dragons in their Pleasant Places by Peter Porter
The Wild Reply by Emma Lew

* 1995: Selected poems 1956-1994 by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
* 1994: The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
* 1993: At the Florida by John Tranter