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2020 Winners and shortlists
2020:
Fiction
1
winner -
The Yield
Author:
Tara June
Winch
Illustrator:
The Death of Jesus
Author:
J. M.
Coetzee
Illustrator:
Exploded View
Author:
Carrie
Tiffany
Illustrator:
Wolfe Island
Author:
Lucy
Treloar
Illustrator:
The Weekend
Author:
Charlotte
Wood
Illustrator:
2020:
Poetry
1
winner -
The Lost Arabs
Author:
Omar
Sakr
Illustrator:
Heide
Author:
π.o.
Illustrator:
The Future Keepers
Author:
Nandi
Chinna
Illustrator:
Empirical
Author:
Lisa
Gorton
Illustrator:
Birth Plan
Author:
LK
Holt
Illustrator:
2020:
Non-fiction
1
winner -
Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country through Songlines
Author:
Gay'wu
Group of Women
Illustrator:
1
winner -
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Author:
Christina
Thompson
Illustrator:
The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia
Author:
Tim
Bonyhady
Illustrator:
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
Author:
Jess
Hill
Illustrator:
Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice
Author:
Jessica
White
Illustrator:
2020:
Australian history
1
winner -
Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago
Author:
Tiffany
Shellam
Illustrator:
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting
Author:
Judith
Brett
Illustrator:
Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform
Author:
Marilyn
Lake AO
Illustrator:
Sludge: Disaster on Victoria's Goldfields
Author:
Susan
Lawrence
Peter
Davies
Illustrator:
The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
Author:
Scott
Patterson
Illustrator:
2020:
Young adult literature
1
winner -
How it Feels to Float
Author:
Helena
Fox
Illustrator:
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
Author:
Wai
Chim
Illustrator:
The Honeyman and the Hunter
Author:
Neil
Grant
Illustrator:
When the Ground is Hard
Author:
Malla
Nunn
Illustrator:
This Is How We Change the Ending
Author:
Vikki
Wakefield
Illustrator:
2020:
Children's literature
1
winner -
Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines
Author:
Jasmine
Seymour
Illustrator:
Leanne Mulgo
Watson
Cheeky Dogs: to Lake Nash and Back
Author:
Dion
Beasley
Johanna
Bell
Illustrator:
One Careless Night
Author:
Christina
Booth
Illustrator:
Winter of the White Bear
Author:
Martin Ed
Chatterton
Illustrator:
Catch a Falling Star
Author:
Meg
McKinlay
Illustrator:
2019 Winners and shortlists
2019:
Fiction
1
winner -
The Death of Noah Glass
Author:
Gail
Jones
Illustrator:
A Stolen Season
Author:
Rodney
Hall
Illustrator:
Too Much Lip
Author:
Melissa
Lucashenko
Illustrator:
Saudade
Author:
Suneeta
Peres da Costa
Illustrator:
Beautiful Revolutionary
Author:
Laura Elizabeth
Woollett
Illustrator:
2019:
Poetry
1
winner -
Sun Music: New and Selected Poems
Author:
Judith
Beveridge
Illustrator:
Click Here for What We Do
Author:
Pam
Brown
Illustrator:
Newcastle Sonnets
Author:
Keri
Glastonbury
Illustrator:
Viva the Real
Author:
Jill
Jones
Illustrator:
Blakwork
Author:
Alison
Whittaker
Illustrator:
2019:
Non-fiction
1
winner -
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964
Author:
Paul
Genoni
Tanya
Dalziell
Illustrator:
A Certain Light: A Memoir of Family, Loss and Hope
Author:
Cynthia
Banham
Illustrator:
Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up
Author:
Gabrielle
Chan
Illustrator:
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
Author:
Chloe
Hooper
Illustrator:
Axiomatic
Author:
Maria
Tumarkin
Illustrator:
2019:
Australian history
1
winner -
The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History
Author:
Meredith
Lake
Illustrator:
Deep Time Dreaming—Uncovering Ancient Australia
Author:
Billy
Griffiths
Illustrator:
Dancing in Shadows—Histories of Nyungar Performance
Author:
Anna
Haebich
Illustrator:
The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788–1860
Author:
David
Kemp
Illustrator:
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote
Author:
Clare
Wright
Illustrator:
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