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CURRENT AWARD WINNERS
2024:
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction): Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
Stella Prize: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
Women's Prize: Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Vogel Award: First Year by Kristina Ross
2023:
Victorian Premier's: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au
Stella Prize: The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
Pulitzer Prize: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver AND Trust by Herman Diaz (Joint Winner)
Women's Prize: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Miles Franklin: Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Man Booker Prize: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2022:
Miles Franklin: Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
Stella Prize: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Man Booker: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Pulitzer Prize (Non-fiction): Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
Pulitzer Price (Fiction): The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
Women's Prize: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
2021:
Stella Prize: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Pulitzer Prize: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Miles Franklin: The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
Women's Prize: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Man Booker: The Promise by Damon Galgut
International Booker: At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
Vogel: Now That I See You by Emma Batchelor
Indie Book of the Year: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Ned Kelly Awards - Best Crime Fiction: Consolation by Gary Disher
Ned Kelly Awards - Best International Crime Fiction: We Begin at the End by Chris Whittaker
2020:
Stella Prize: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
Pulitzer Prize: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Miles Franklin: The Yield by Tara June Winch
Women's Prize: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrel
Man Booker: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
International Booker: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Vogel: A Treacherous Country by Katherine Kruimink
Indie Book of the Year: Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Ned Kelly Awards - Best Crime Fiction: The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
Ned Kelly Awards - Best International Crime Fiction: The Chain by Adrian McKinty
2019:
Stella Prize: The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Pulitzer Prize: The Overstory by Richard Powers
Miles Franklin: Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Women's Prize: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Man Booker: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Vogel: No winner for 2019
CBCA Older Readers: Between Us by Clare Atkins
CBCA Younger Readers: His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda
CBCA Picture Book: Cicada by Shaun Tan
Indie Book of the Year:
OVERALL WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
FICTION WINNER: Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
NON-FICTION WINNER: The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
CHILDREN’S WINNER: Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
2018:
Stella Prize: Tracker by Alexis Wright
Pulitzer Prize: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Miles Franklin: The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
Women's Prize: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Man Booker: Milkman by Anna Burns
Vogel: The Yellow House by Emily O'Grady
CBCA Older Readers: Take three girls by Crowley Cath, Wood Fiona & Howell Simmone
CBCA Younger Readers: How to bee by MacDibble Bren
CBCA Picture Book: Rodney Loses it by Michael Gerard Bauer
Indie Book of the Year: Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason
2017:
Stella Prize: Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
Pulitzer Prize: Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Nobel Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro
Miles Franklin: Extinctions by Josephine Wilson
Women's Prize: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Man Booker: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Vogel: The Lost Pages by Marija Pericic
CBCA Older Readers: One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn
CBCA Younger Readers: Rockhopping by Trace Balla
CBCA Picture Book: Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by Johanna Bell
Indie Book of the Year: The Dry by Jane Harper
2016:
Stella Prize: The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Pulitzer Prize: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nobel Prize: Bob Dylan (for his life work)
Miles Franklin: Black Rock White City by A.S. Patric
Women's Prize: Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Man Booker: The Sellout by Beatty
Vogel: The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
CBCA Older Readers: Cloudwish by Fiona Wood
CBCA Younger Readers: Soon by Morris Gleitzman
CBCA Picture Book: Mr Huff by Anna Walker
Indie Book of the Year: The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS
Man Booker Prize Awarded in October
Known as the Booker Prize, this prestigious British award traditionally recognized the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland. In 2014 the Booker prize was opened up to include the nomination of writers from around the globe.
2000: Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2005: The Sea by John Banville
2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright
2008: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie wins ‘Best of the Booker’, celebrating 40 years of the Man Booker Prize
2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Women’s Prize for Fiction
(Formerly The Orange Prize) Awarded in June
The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction is a British prize awarded to the best full-length novel written by a woman. The only criteria are that the author writes in English and the novel is published in Britain.
2000: When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
2001: Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
2002: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2003: Property by Valerie Martin
2004: Small Island by Andrea Levy
2005: We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2006: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2007: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
2008: The Road Home by Rose Tremain
2009: Home by Marilynne Robinson
2010: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2011: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
2012: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2013: May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
2014: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
2015: How to be Both by Ali Smith
Miles Franklin Award Awarded in June
The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most prestigious literary award, recognises the best novel of the year that celebrates Australian life “in any of its phases”.
2000: Drylands by Thea Astley
2001: Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse
2002: Dirt Music by Tim Winton
2003: Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
2004: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2005: The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
2006: Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
2007: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
2008: The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
2009: Breath by Tim Winton
2010: Truth by Peter Temple
2011: That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
2012: All That I Am by Anna Funder
2013: Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser
2014: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
2015: The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
Nobel Prize Awarded in October
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded, in accordance with the wishes of Alfred Nobel as per his will, to "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
2000: Gao Xingjian
2001: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2002: Imre Kertesz
2003: John M. Coetzee
2004: Elfriede Jelenek
2005: Harold Pinter
2006: Orhan Pamuk
2007: Doris Lessing
2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
2009: Herta Muller
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa
2011: Tomas Transtromer
2012: Mo Yan
2013: Alice Munro
2014: Patrick Modiano
2015: Svetlana Alexievich
Pulitzer Prize Awarded in June
Named after American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, this award honours distinguished fiction by American writers dealing with American life.
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001: Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004: The Known World by Edward Jones
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2008: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2012: No winner announced for 2012
2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Stella Prize Awarded in April
The Stella Prize is an Australian award for female authors across literary genres including fiction, poetry, fantasy and YA fiction.
2013: Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
2014: The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
2015: The Strays by Emily Bitto
Indie Book Award
The best books of the year, across adult fiction and non-fiction, Children's and YA, and Debut fiction, as chosen by independent Australian booksellers.
2008: Breath by Tim Winton
2009: Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
2010/11: The Happiest Refugee by Anh Doh
2012: All That I Am by Anna Funder
2013: The Light Between Oceans by M.L.Stedman
2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
2015: The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
