The ACT Book of the Year is an annual prize of $10,000 awarded for a literary work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry written by an author from the Australian Capital Territory.[1] The award was inaugurated in 1993 with $5,000 prize money.[2]
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Notes |
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1993 | Marion Halligan | Lovers' Knot | Heinemann | Joint winners[3] |
A. D. Hope | Chance Encounters | Melbourne University Press | ||
1994 | John Foulcher | New and Selected Poems | Brandl & Schlesinger | [4] |
1995 | Sara Dowse | Sapphires | Penguin Group | [5] |
1996 | Paul Hetherington | Shadow Swimmer | Molonglo Press | |
1997 | Francesca Rendle-Short | Imago | Spinifex Press | |
1998 | Lee Chittick | Travelling With Percy : A South Coast Journey | Aboriginal Studies Press | |
1999 | Craig Cormick | Unwritten Histories | Aboriginal Studies Press | |
2000 | Adrian Caesar | The White: Last days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 | Picador | |
2001 | Alan Gould | The Schoonermaster's Dance | Flamingo | Joint Winners |
Dorothy Johnston | The Trojan Dog | Wakefield Press | ||
2002 | Jackie French | In the Blood | Angus & Robertson | |
2003 | John Clanchy | The Hard Word | University of Queensland Press | |
2004 | Marion Halligan | The Point | Allen & Unwin | |
2005 | Tony Kevin | A Certain Maritime Incident : the sinking of SIEV X | Scribe Publications | |
2006 | John Clanchy | Vincenzo's Garden | University of Queensland Press | |
2007 | Quynh Du Thon That | Sunday Menu : selected short stories of Pham Thi Hoai | Pandanus | |
2008 | Tony Kevin | Walking the Camino : A Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago | Scribe Publications | |
2009 | Nicholas Drayson | A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: A Novel [6] | Viking | [7] |
2010 | Marion Halligan | Valley of Grace | Allen & Unwin | [8] |
2011 | Chris Hammer | The River: A journey through the Murray-Darling Basin | Melbourne University Press | [9] |
2012 | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Allen & Unwin | [9] |
2013 | Frank Bongiorno | The Sex Lives of Australians : A History | Black Inc. | [10] |
2014 | Gordon Peake | Beloved land: stories, Struggles and secrets from Timor-Leste | Scribe Publications | [11] |
2015 | Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono | Text Publishing | [12] |
2016 | Frank Bongiorno | The Eighties : the decade that transformed Australia | Black Inc. | [13] |
2017 | Tom Griffiths | The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their craft | Black Inc. | [14] |
2018 | Paul Collis | Dancing Home | University of Queensland Press | [15] |
2019 | Robyn Cadwallader | Book of Colours | HarperCollins | [16] |
2020 | Lisa Fuller | Ghost Bird | University of Queensland Press | [17] |
2021 | Subhash Jaireth | Spinoza's Overcoat: Travels with Writers and Poets | Transit Lounge | [18] |
2022 | Lucy Neave | Believe in Me | University of Queensland Press | [19] |
2023 | Frank Bongiorno | Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia | La Trobe University Press | [20] |