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2010 Winners and shortlists
2010:
Non-fiction
The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir
Author:
Mark
Tredinnick
Illustrator:
The Ghost at the Wedding
Author:
Shirley
Walker
Illustrator:
2010:
Young adult literature
1
winner -
Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God
Author:
Bill
Condon
Illustrator:
Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
Author:
Lucy
Christopher
Illustrator:
The Winds of Heaven
Author:
Judith
Clarke
Illustrator:
The Museum of Mary Child
Author:
Cassandra
Golds
Illustrator:
Swerve
Author:
Phillip
Gwynne
Illustrator:
Jarvis 24
Author:
David
Metzenthen
Illustrator:
Beatle Meets Destiny
Author:
Gabrielle
Williams
Illustrator:
2010:
Children's literature
1
winner -
Star Jumps
Author:
Lorraine
Marwood
Illustrator:
Cicada Summer
Author:
Kate
Constable
Illustrator:
The Terrible Plop
Author:
Ursula
Dubosarsky
Illustrator:
Andrew
Joyner
Running with the Horses
Author:
Alison
Lester
Illustrator:
Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children
Author:
Jen
Storer
Illustrator:
Harry and Hopper
Author:
Margaret
Wild
Illustrator:
Freya
Blackwood
2009 Winners and shortlists
2009:
Fiction
1
winner -
The Boat
Author:
Nam
Le
Illustrator:
The Pages
Author:
Murray
Bail
Illustrator:
People of the Book
Author:
Geraldine
Brooks
Illustrator:
Wanting
Author:
Richard
Flanagan
Illustrator:
Everything I knew
Author:
Peter
Goldsworthy
Illustrator:
One Foot Wrong
Author:
Sofie
Laguna
Illustrator:
The Good Parents
Author:
Joan
London
Illustrator:
2009:
Non-fiction
1
winner -
House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nellie Kroeger-Mann
Author:
Evelyn
Juers
Illustrator:
1
winner -
Drawing the Global Colour Line
Author:
Marilyn
Lake
Henry
Reynolds
Illustrator:
VAN DIEMEN’S LAND
Author:
James
Boyce
Illustrator:
Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley
Author:
Brian
Dibble
Illustrator:
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History
Author:
Jenny
Hocking
Illustrator:
The Tall Man
Author:
Chloe
Hooper
Illustrator:
The Henson Case
Author:
David
Marr
Illustrator:
American Journeys
Author:
Don
Watson
Illustrator:
2008 Winners and shortlists
2008:
Fiction
1
winner -
The Zoo Keeper’s War
Author:
Steven
Conte
Illustrator:
Sorry
Author:
Gail
Jones
Illustrator:
Burning In
Author:
Mireille
Juchau
Illustrator:
The Widow and her Hero
Author:
Tom
Keneally
Illustrator:
Jamaica: A Novel
Author:
Malcolm
Knox
Illustrator:
The Complete Stories
Author:
David
Malouf
Illustrator:
El Dorado
Author:
Dorothy
Porter
Illustrator:
2008:
Non-fiction
1
winner -
Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
Author:
Philip
Jones
Illustrator:
Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799
Author:
Philip
Dwyer
Illustrator:
A History of Queensland
Author:
Raymond
Evans
Illustrator:
My Life as a Traitor
Author:
Zarah
Ghahramani
Robert
Hillman
Illustrator:
Shakespeare's Wife
Author:
Germaine
Greer
Illustrator:
Vietnam: The Australian War
Author:
Paul
Ham
Illustrator:
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
Author:
Clive
James
Illustrator:
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