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The Australian Children's
Book of the Year Award
is presented annually
by The Children's Book
Council of Australia.
It was first awarded in
1946. Until 1952 there
was only a single award
category, now there are
five:
- Picture Book of the Year
- Book of the Year: Younger
Readers
- Book of the Year: Older
Readers
- Book of the Year: Early
Childhood
- The Eve Pownall Award for
Information Books
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The website contains information about the awards and and
a list of current and past winners.
For information and ideas about Children's Book
Week activities explore the CMIS Children's
Book Week site.
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Inaugurated in 1995, The Aurealis Awards for Excellence
in Australian Speculative Fiction, recognise the
achievements of Australian writers of Science Fiction,
Fantasy and Horror.
Awards are presented in five divisions:
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Young Adult
- Children (new division for the
2001 Aurealis Awards)
The Young Adult and Children's
categories cover all three genres. For each division
there is a Best Novel and Best Short Story Award.
For further information, a list of past winners
and the current shortlist and winners go to the
Aurealis Website above.
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The
Arrival Shaun
Tan |
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A
Fine Magic by Margo
Lanagan |
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Wildwood
Dancing by Juliet Marillier |
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Young
Adult
Monster
Blood Tattoo by DM Cornish |
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The
True Story of Mary who Wants to Stand on
Her Head by Jane
Godwin tied with:
Woolvs
in the Sitee by Margaret
Wild and Ann
Spudvilas |
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Melissa
Queen of Evil by Mardi McConnochie |
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Golden
Aurealis: Young Adult Division
Alyzon
Whitestarr by
Isobelle Carmody
Golden Aurealis:
Young Adult Short Story
Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the
Case by Garth
Nix
in Across the Wall:
Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere
Winner: Children's Long Fiction
Drowned
Wednesday by Garth
Nix
Winner: Children's Short Fiction
Piccolo & Annabel 2: The Disastrous Party
by Stephen Axelson |
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Golden
Aurealis
[Selected from winners of the Divisions]
Singing My Sister Down
Short story by Margo
Lanagan in Black
Juice.
Young
Adult Best Novel
The
Secret Hour
by Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters series)
Children's Best Long Fiction
How
to Live Forever
by Colin
Thompson
Children's Best Short Fiction
Beneath
the Surface
Picture Book by Gary
Crew & Stephen
Woolman
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Young
Adult Best Novel - Joint Winners
Abhorsen
by Garth
Nix (The Old Kingdom
Trilogy Book 3)
[NOTE: Abhorsen
was also winner of the Adult Fantasy Division]
Dragonkeeper
by Carole
Wilkinson
Shortlisted
The Silken Road to Samarkand
(The Sinbad Chronicles Book 2), Janeen
Webb |
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Adult
Horror
Born
of the Sea
by Victor
Kelleher |
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Garth
Nix |
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Children's Short Fiction
(8-12 years) - Winner
Lily
Quench and the Lighthouse of Skellig Mor
by Natalie
Jane Prior
Shortlisted
Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits
by Duncan
Ball
Wolfchild,
by Rosanne
Hawke
Tashi
and the Royal Tombs,
by Anna
& Barbara Fienberg,
illustrated by Kim
Gamble
Lily
Quench and the Magician's Pyramid, by
Natalie
Jane Prior
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- A Selection
of the Winners |
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Young
Adult Best Novel - Winner
The Hand of Glory
by Sophie
Masson
Shortlisted
Fireworks and Darkness, by Natalie
Jane Prior
Mum, Me, the 19th C, by David McRobbie
The
Starthorn Tree, by
Kate Forsyth
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The
Gift by Alison Croggan,
was shortlisted in the Adult Fantasy
and Horror categories |
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Children's
(8-12 years) - Winner
In
the Garden of Empress Cassia
by Gabrielle Wang
Shortlisted
Eglantine,
by Catherine Jinks
Rhianna
and the Dogs of Iron,
by Dave Luckett
Lily Quench and the treasure of Mote Ely,
by
Natalie Jane Prior
See also: Lily
Quench Internet Hideout
Astrid
Spark, Fixologist,
by Justin D'Ath |
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Children's
Short Fiction (8-12 years) - Winner
Tashi
and the Haunted House
by Anna
& Barbara Fienberg,
illustrated by Kim
Gamble
Shortlisted
The Golden Udder, by Terry
Denton
The Two Natalie's, by Justin D'Ath
In the Blink of an Eye, by Andrew Chapman
Old
Ridley, by Gary
Crew and Marc McBride
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This award first presented in
1988 and managed by the Victorian Branch of the
CBCA is to acknowledge excellence and encourage
new illustrators. Go to the CBCA site for further
information including the current shortlist, past
winners and a history of the award.
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The Dromkeen Medal is awarded to an Australian citizen
for recent work that makes significant contribution
to the appreciation and development of children's
literature.
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Walter
McVitty Lecturer, publisher |
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Roland
Harvey Illustrator,
author, publisher |
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Margaret
Hamilton , Publisher,
writer, editor, advocate
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Ivan
Southall, Author |
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Ann
James, Illustrator |
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Julie
Watts, Publisher |
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Paul
Jennings |
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The Dromkeen Medal is presented in February or March
each year at the Courtney Oldmeadow Memorial Lecture
and Dinner.
For further information about this award, go to
the Dromkeen website above and look under
News and Events in the dropwell. |
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The Wilderness Society is
a national, community-based, environmental advocacy
organisation whose mission is to protect, promote
and secure the future of wilderness and other high
conservation areas.
The annual Environment Award, inaugurated in 1994,
is open to fiction and non-fiction children's books
published in Australia. Award trophies and certificates
are presented to authors and illustrators of those
books that best encourage an attitude of caring,
wonder and understanding of the natural world, or
those that promote an awareness of environmental
issues.
For further information about this award, including
short listed books and past winners go to the Wilderness
Society website above. |
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The Miles Franklin Award was established in 1954
with a bequest from Miles Franklin to promote excellence
in Australian literature. At $42,000 it is the richest
literary prize in Australia. It is award to the
novel of the year of 'highest literary merit
which presents Australian life in any of its phases.'
The website above contains judges formal comments,
shortlist, author profiles, description of the novels
and a list of past winners.
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Carpentaria
by Alexis Wright |
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The
Ballad of Desmond Kale
by Roger McDonald |
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The
White Earth
by Andrew McGahan |
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The
Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard |
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Dirt
Music Tim
Winton |
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The Children's Peace Prize is
a biennial award, awarded by Psychologists for Peace,
to promote the peaceful resolution of conflict by
recognising and encouraging Australian authors of
children's books with that theme. It was first awarded
in 1987 to Gillian
Rubinstein for her novel
Space
Demons.
Information about the award, list of winners and
shortlists 1997-2005, and discussion ideas for parents
and teachers are available on the Australian Psychological
Society website.
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The Vision Australia Foundation Library Awards
were established in 1974 to encourage the production
of current Australian literature in braille and
audio formats. A list of current winners can be
found on the Vision Australia site above
by using the search term Library Awards in
the search box on the home page.
Award categories are: Braille Book of the Year,
Audio Book of the Year, Adult Narrator of the Year,
Civica Young Adult Audio Book of the Year, Civica
Young Adult Narrator of the Year.
For a list of past winners browse the Louis Braille
Audio site below.
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Organised by the State Library, the WA Premier's
Awards are open to writers who meet at least one
of the following criteria:
- Born in WA
- Usual place of residence
is WA
- Resident in WA for a minimum
of 10 years
- Work has a WA primary focus
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Prizes are awarded in various
categories.
Winners announced in June.
For further information about the awards, the
complete shortlist and past winners browse the
website above. |
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Awards are presented to
New Zealand books in five categories plus a "Book
of the Year." Sponsored by New Zealand Post.
Formerly the AIM Children's Book Awards (Est.
1990).
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First awarded in 1968 the Booker
Prize rewards the best novel of the year written
by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic
of Ireland.
For information about the prize, an archive of winners,
rules and contacts refer to the official website
above.
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The
Gathering by Anne
Enright. |
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The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Shortlisted
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland and The
Secret River by Kate Grenville (both Australian) |
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Man
Booker Prize 2005 |
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The Sea by John Banville |
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Man
Booker Prize 2004 |
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The Line
of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst |
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Man
Booker Prize 2003 |
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Vernon
God Little by DBC Pierre [Born in Australia,
lives in Ireland]
This first novel is a satire about contemporary
America |
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Life
of Pi by Canadian Yann Martel
Shortlisted
Dirt Music by Australian Tim Winton
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True
History of the Kelly Gang by Australian
Peter Carey |
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To encourage and reward
the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and
ensure that works of merit reach a wider
audience outside their country of origin,
the Commonwealth Foundation established the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1987.
The objectives of the prize are to promote new voices, reward achievement, encourage
wider readership and greater literacy, thereby increasing appreciation of different
cultures and building understanding between cultures
The Prize is awarded
in four regions : Africa, Canada and Caribbean,
Europe and South Asia and South East Asia and
South Pacific. There is also an overall 'Best
Book' award which is noted below. All other
winners for the current year are available
on the official website.
For information about the prize, an archive
of all winners, rules and contacts refer to
the official website above.
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Mister
Pip by Lloyd Jones (NZ) |
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The
Secret River by Kate Grenville (Australia) |
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