Age Book of the Year 2012

The winners have been announced! The winner of the Age Book of the Year Award 2012 is James Boyce for his book 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia. James also won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. Gillian Mears has won the Fiction Book of the Year for her novel Foal’s Bread, adding another accolade to her growing list, and Mal McKimmie has won in the Poetry category for The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems. Well done, all!!

Age Book of the Year 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The shortlist for the Age Book of the Year 2012 awards has recently been announced. It’s an interesting list, with a number of authors recognised who have been absent from other big award shortlists:

Fiction

•  What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
• Spirit House by Mark Dapin
• The Meaning of Grace by Deborah Forster
• Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital
• Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears

Non-Fiction

• 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
• Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
• Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
• Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor
• Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White

Poetry

• First Light by Kate Fagan
• The Welfare of my Enemy by Anthony Lawrence
• The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems by Mal McKimmie
• Late Night Shopping by Rhyll McMaster
• Surface to Air by Jaya Savige

The winner of each category will win $2500, with the overall winner receiving an extra $10000. The winners will be announced at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival on August 23. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors!