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2017 Winners and shortlists
2017:
Non-fiction
1
winner -
Quicksilver
Author:
Nicolas
Rothwell
Illustrator:
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow
Author:
Dr Suzanne
Falkiner
Illustrator:
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft
Author:
Tom
Griffiths
Illustrator:
Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead
Author:
Thornton
McCamish
Illustrator:
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Author:
Sebastian
Smee
Illustrator:
2017:
Australian history
1
winner -
Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga story
Author:
Dr Elizabeth
Tynan
Illustrator:
'A passion for exploring new countries' Matthew Flinders and George Bass
Author:
Josephine
Bastian
Illustrator:
Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent
Author:
Neil
McDonald
Illustrator:
Evatt: A Life
Author:
Professor John
Murphy
Illustrator:
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off
Author:
Mr Charlie
Ward
Illustrator:
2017:
Young adult literature
1
winner -
Words in Deep Blue
Author:
Cath
Crowley
Illustrator:
The Bone Sparrow
Author:
Zana
Fraillon
Illustrator:
The Stars at Oktober Bend
Author:
Glenda
Millard
Illustrator:
Forgetting Foster
Author:
Dianne
Touchell
Illustrator:
One Would Think the Deep
Author:
Claire
Zorn
Illustrator:
2017:
Children's literature
1
winner -
Home in the Rain
Author:
Bob
Graham
Illustrator:
1
winner -
Dragonfly Song
Author:
Wendy
Orr
Illustrator:
Blue Sky, Yellow Kite
Author:
Janet A.
Holmes
Illustrator:
Jonathan
Bentley
My Brother
Author:
Dee
Huxley
Illustrator:
Oliver
Huxley
Figgy and the President
Author:
Tamsin
Janu
Illustrator:
2016 Winners and shortlists
2016:
Fiction
1
winner -
The Life of Houses
Author:
Lisa
Gorton
Illustrator:
1
winner -
The Natural Way of Things
Author:
Charlotte
Wood
Illustrator:
Forever Young
Author:
Steven
Carroll
Illustrator:
The World Repair Video Game
Author:
David
Ireland
Illustrator:
Quicksand
Author:
Steve
Toltz
Illustrator:
2016:
Poetry
1
winner -
The Hazards
Author:
Sarah
Holland-Batt
Illustrator:
Net Needle
Author:
Robert
Adamson
Illustrator:
Cocky’s Joy
Author:
Michael
Farrell
Illustrator:
Waiting for the Past
Author:
Les
Murray AO
Illustrator:
The Ladder
Author:
Simon
West
Illustrator:
2016:
Non-fiction
1
winner -
On Stalin's Team: the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
Author:
Sheila
Fitzpatrick
Illustrator:
1
winner -
'Thea Astley: Inventing her own Weather'
Author:
Karen
Lamb
Illustrator:
'Tom Roberts and the Art of Portraiture'
Author:
Julie
Cotter
Illustrator:
'Second Half First'
Author:
Drusilla
Modjeska
Illustrator:
'Island Home'
Author:
Tim
Winton
Illustrator:
2016:
Australian history
1
winner -
The Story of Australia's People. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
Author:
Geoffrey
Blainey AC
Illustrator:
1
winner -
'Let my people go: the untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89'
Author:
Sam
Lipski AM
Suzanne
D Rutland OAM
Illustrator:
'Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose'
Author:
Peter
Monteath
Valerie
Munt
Illustrator:
'Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life'
Author:
Doug
Morrissey
Illustrator:
'The War with Germany: Volume III—The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War'
Author:
Robert
Stevenson
Illustrator:
2016:
Young adult literature
1
winner -
A Single Stone
Author:
Meg
McKinlay
Illustrator:
Becoming Kirrali Lewis
Author:
Jane
Harrison
Illustrator:
Illuminae: The Illuminae Files _01
Author:
Amie
Kaufman
Jay
Kristoff
Illustrator:
Inbetween Days
Author:
Vikki
Wakefield
Illustrator:
Green Valentine
Author:
Lili
Wilkinson
Illustrator:
2016:
Children's literature
1
winner -
Sister Heart
Author:
Sally
Morgan
Illustrator:
Adelaide's Secret World
Author:
Elise
Hurst
Illustrator:
Perfect
Author:
Danny
Parker
Illustrator:
Freya
Blackwood
The Greatest Gatsby : A Visual Book of Grammar
Author:
Tohby
Riddle
Illustrator:
Mr Huff
Author:
Anna
Walker
Illustrator:
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