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The winners of this year’s Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on 23 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival at Melbourne Town Hall.
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce won the overall Age Book of the Year Award, worth $10,000. The book also won the Non-Fiction Prize, worth $2,500.
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears was selected as this year’s Age Book of the Year fiction prize and the poetry prize was presented to Mal McKimmie for The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems. Both prizes are worth $2,500.
The shortlists for this year’s Age Book of the Year Awards have been announced. They are as follows:
Nonfiction
- 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia(James Boyce, Black Inc.)
- Hiroshima Nagasaki (Paul Ham, HarperCollins)
- Kinglake-350 (Adrian Hyland, Text)
- Fishing the River of Time (Tony Taylor, Text)
- Double Entry (Jane Gleeson-White, A&U)
Poetry
- First Light (Kate Fagan, Giramondo)
- The Welfare of my Enemy (Anthony Lawrence, Puncher & Wattmann)
- The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems (Mal McKimmie, Five Island Press)
- Late Night Shopping (Rhyll McMaster, Brandl & Schlesinger)
- Surface to Air (Jaya Savige, UQP)
Fiction
- What the Family Needed (Stephen Amsterdam, Sleepers)
- Spirit House (Mark Dapin, Pan Macmillan)
- The Meaning of Grace (Deborah Forster, Vintage)
- Forecast: Turbulence (Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate)
- Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U).