ACT Book of the Year Award

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ACT Book of the Year Award
First award1993
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The ACT Book of the Year Award 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] The Award showcases the talent and the excellence of local authors and is also intended to "inspire those who have an idea, a seed for a book to ‘pick up the pen’ and get writing".[3]

Winners and select shortlist

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Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
1993 Marion Halligan Lovers' Knot Heinemann Joint winners[4]
A. D. Hope Chance Encounters Melbourne University Press
1994 John Foulcher New and Selected Poems Brandl & Schlesinger Winner[5]
1995 Sara Dowse Sapphires Penguin Group Winner[6]
1996 Paul Hetherington Shadow Swimmer Molonglo Press Winner
1997 Francesca Rendle-Short Imago Spinifex Press Winner
1998 Lee Chittick Travelling With Percy : A South Coast Journey Aboriginal Studies Press Winner
1999 Craig Cormick Unwritten Histories Aboriginal Studies Press Winner
2000 Adrian Caesar The White: Last days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 Picador Winner
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 Winner
2003 John Clanchy The Hard Word University of Queensland Press Winner
2004 Marion Halligan The Point Allen & Unwin Winner
2005 Tony Kevin A Certain Maritime Incident : the sinking of SIEV X Scribe Publications Winner
2006 John Clanchy Vincenzo's Garden University of Queensland Press Winner
2007 Quynh Du Thon That Sunday Menu : selected short stories of Pham Thi Hoai Pandanus Winner
2008 Tony Kevin Walking the Camino : A Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago Scribe Publications Winner
2009 Nicholas Drayson A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: A Novel [7] Viking Winner[8]
2010 Marion Halligan Valley of Grace Allen & Unwin Winner[9]
2011 Chris Hammer The River: A journey through the Murray-Darling Basin Melbourne University Press Winner[10]
2012 Bill Gammage The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia Allen & Unwin Winner[10]
2013 Frank Bongiorno The Sex Lives of Australians : A History Black Inc. Winner[11]
2014 Gordon Peake Beloved land: stories, Struggles and secrets from Timor-Leste Scribe Publications Winner[12]
2015 Mark Henshaw The Snow Kimono Text Publishing Winner[13]
2016 Frank Bongiorno The Eighties : the decade that transformed Australia Black Inc. Winner[14]
2017 Tom Griffiths The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their craft Black Inc. Winner[15]
2018 Paul Collis Dancing Home University of Queensland Press Winner[16]
2019 Robyn Cadwallader Book of Colours HarperCollins Winner[17]
2020 Lisa Fuller Ghost Bird University of Queensland Press Winner[18]
2021 Subhash Jaireth Spinoza's Overcoat: Travels with Writers and Poets Transit Lounge Winner[19]
2022 Lucy Neave Believe in Me University of Queensland Press Winner[20]
Merlinda Bobis The Kindness of Birds Highly Commended [21]
Dylan van den Berg Milk Highly Commended
Omar Musa Killernova Highly Commended
Tim Bonyhady Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium: A History of Afghanistan Through Clothes, Carpets and the Camera Shortlisted
Hugh Poate Failures of Command: The Death of Private Robert Poate Shortlisted
Kaya Wilson As Beautiful As Any Other: A Memoir of My Body Shortlisted
2023 Frank Bongiorno Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia La Trobe University Press Winner [22]
Julieanne Lamond Lohrey Highly Commended [23]
Marion Halligan Words for Lucy Highly Commended
Niki Savva Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise Shortlisted
Katrina Marson Legitimate Sexpectations: the power of sex-ed Shortlisted
Robert Bowker Tomorrow There will be Apricots Shortlisted
2024 Chris Hammer The Seven Allen & Unwin Winner [24]
Ayesha Inoon Untethered[25] HarperCollins Australia Highly Commended [26]
J. Ashley-Smith The Measure of Sorrow: Stories[27] Meerkat Press (Atlanta, USA)
Paul Hetherington Sleeplessness[28] Pierian Springs Press Shortlisted
Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up[29] NewSouth Publishing
Jackie French The Great Gallipoli Escape[30] Angus & Robertson (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
2025 Darren Rix & Craig Cormick Warra Warra Wai [31] Simon & Schuster Australia Winner [32]
Theodore Ell Lebanon Days[33] Atlantic Books Australia; Allen & Unwin (digital) Highly Commended
Qin Qin Model Minority Gone Rogue[34] Hachette Australia Shortlisted [35]
Andra Putnis Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me[36] Allen & Unwin Shortlisted

References

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