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2019 Winners and shortlists
2019:
Young adult literature
1
winner -
The Things That Will Not Stand
Author:
Michael Gerard
Bauer
Illustrator:
Between Us
Author:
Clare
Atkins
Illustrator:
Lenny's Book of Everything
Author:
Karen
Foxlee
Illustrator:
The Art of Taxidermy
Author:
Sharon
Kernot
Illustrator:
Cicada
Author:
Shaun
Tan
Illustrator:
2019:
Children's literature
1
winner -
His Name was Walter
Author:
Emily
Rodda
Illustrator:
Sonam and the Silence
Author:
Eddie
Ayres
Illustrator:
Ronak
Taher
Waiting for Chicken Smith
Author:
David
Mackintosh
Illustrator:
The Incredible Freedom Machines
Author:
Kirli
Saunders
Illustrator:
Matt
Ottley
The Feather
Author:
Margaret
Wild
Illustrator:
Freya
Blackwood
2018 Winners and shortlists
2018:
Fiction
1
winner -
Border Districts
Author:
Gerald
Murnane
Illustrator:
A Long Way From Home
Author:
Peter
Carey
Illustrator:
The life to come
Author:
Michelle
de Kretser
Illustrator:
First Person
Author:
Richard
Flanagan
Illustrator:
Taboo
Author:
Kim
Scott
Illustrator:
2018:
Poetry
1
winner -
Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria
Author:
Brian
Castro
Illustrator:
Archipelago
Author:
Adam
Aitken
Illustrator:
Chatelaine
Author:
Bonny
Cassidy
Illustrator:
Transparencies
Author:
Stephen
Edgar
Illustrator:
Domestic Interior
Author:
Fiona
Wright
Illustrator:
2018:
Non-fiction
1
winner -
Asia's Reckoning
Author:
Richard
McGregor
Illustrator:
Unbreakable
Author:
Jelena
Dokic
Jessica
Halloran
Illustrator:
Mischka's War: a European Odyssey of the 1940s
Author:
Sheila
Fitzpatrick
Illustrator:
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
Author:
Stuart
Kells
Illustrator:
No Front Line: Australia's Special Forces at War in Afghanistan
Author:
Chris
Masters
Illustrator:
2018:
Australian history
1
winner -
John Curtin's War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia, volume 1
Author:
John
Edwards
Illustrator:
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Author:
Judith
Brett
Illustrator:
Hidden in Plain View
Author:
Paul
Irish
Illustrator:
Beautiful Balts
Author:
Jayne
Persian
Illustrator:
Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901
Author:
Tim
Rowse
Illustrator:
2018:
Young adult literature
1
winner -
This Is My Song
Author:
Richard
Yaxley
Illustrator:
My Lovely Frankie
Author:
Judith
Clarke
Illustrator:
Living on Hope Street
Author:
Demet
Divaroren
Illustrator:
the ones that disappeared
Author:
Zana
Fraillon
Illustrator:
ruben
Author:
Bruce
Whatley
Illustrator:
2018:
Children's literature
1
winner -
Pea Pod Lullaby
Author:
Glenda
Millard
Illustrator:
Stephen Michael
King
Storm Whale
Author:
Sarah
Brennan
Illustrator:
Jane
Tanner
Feathers
Author:
Phil
Cummings
Illustrator:
Phil
Lesnie
Figgy Takes the City
Author:
Tamsin
Janu
Illustrator:
Hark, It's Me. Ruby Lee!
Author:
Lisa
Shanahan
Illustrator:
Binny
Talib
2017 Winners and shortlists
2017:
Fiction
1
winner -
Their Brilliant Careers
Author:
Ryan
O’Neill
Illustrator:
The Easy Way Out
Author:
Steven
Amsterdam
Illustrator:
The Last Days of Ava Langdon
Author:
Mark
O’Flynn
Illustrator:
Waiting
Author:
Philip
Salom
Illustrator:
Extinctions
Author:
Josephine
Wilson
Illustrator:
2017:
Poetry
1
winner -
Headwaters
Author:
Anthony
Lawrence
Illustrator:
Painting Red Orchids
Author:
Eileen
Chong
Illustrator:
Year of the Wasp
Author:
Joel
Deane
Illustrator:
Content
Author:
Liam
Ferney
Illustrator:
Fragments
Author:
Antigone
Kefala
Illustrator:
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