Award Winners


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen



International Dublin Literary Award – Harvest by Jim Crace




Indie Book of the Year – Non-Fiction: Reckoning by Magda Szubanski


ACA Lifetime Achievement in Literature – Thomas Keneally





Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction – Joint winner – On Stalin’s Team by Sheila Fitzpatrick


Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction – Joint winner – Thea Astley by Karen Lamb






Costa Book Award – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

 







The Finch Memoir Prize – I knew You’d Have Brown Eyes by Mary Tennant


Victorian Prize for Literature – The Drover’s Wife by Leah Purcell


Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards/Fiction – Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain




Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards/Non-Fiction – Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru by Madeline Gleeson


Victorian Prize for Literature – The Drover’s Wife by Leah Purcell


Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards/Poetry – Carrying The World by Maxine Beneba Clarke






Dobbie Literary Award – Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar





Aurealis Award: Science Fiction- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff



ABIA Book of the Year – Reckoning by Magda Szubanski




Hugo Award (Best Novel) – The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

 


 







US National Award – Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson














National Book Award POETRY (US) – The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky









Children’s & Young Adult Awards



Roald Dahl Funny Prize – Under 6 years – Monkey Nut by Simon Rickerty




Gold Inky – Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff


Silver Inky – I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson


ABIA Older Readers Book of the Year (8-14 years) – Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff




CBCA Older Readers – Cloudwish by Fiona Wood



CBCA Early Childhood – Mr Huff by Anna Walker





YABBA Younger Readers Fiction- You Choose… The Treasure of Dead Man’s Cover by George Ivanoff




 


YABBA Fiction Older Readers – The 52 Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths

 


 


 




Newbery Medal – Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena

Indie Book of the Year – Young Adult: Cloudwish by Fiona Wood






Speech Pathology Awards – 3 to 5 years – Something Wonderful by Raewyn Caisley


Speech Pathology Awards – 5 to 8 years – Funky Chicken: Chooks in Space by Chris Collin






Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards/Young Adult – When Michael Met Mina by Randa Abdel-Fattah









Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – Meg Rosoff