An Award For: The best English language book of the year and the best translated fiction book of the year.
Voted By: A small panel of judges, that changes each year.
The Booker Prize Winners 2024
An Award For: A novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.
The Prize: $60,000
2024 Winner
An Award For: Australian books of a high quality that have sold well at independent bookstores.
Voted by: Australian independent booksellers.
Indies Fiction Book of the Year
Indies Non-Fiction Book of the Year
An Award For The Best Australian Young Adult Book of the Year.
Previous Winners: Include Erin Gough, Eleni Hale and Zana Fraillon.
2024 Readings YA Book Prize
Winner of the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2024
An Award For: The best book in English by a woman throughout the world.
Previous Winners Include: Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Chimamamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kate Grenville
2024 Winner:
An Award For: Australian fiction, non-fiction, drama, young adult and poetry.
The Prize: Category winners receive $20,000 whilst the overall winner receives $100,000 in prize money.
Victorian Prize For Literature 2024
Prize for Young Adults 2024
An Award For: The best Australian Children's books of the year.
Voted By: The CBCA, a non for profit, volunteer run organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians.
CBCA Book of the Year - Older Readers - Winner
Dymocks Booksellers nominated their favourite book published in 2024 and the winner is:
Winners of the Historical Novel Society Australia in 2024:
Adult Category - Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Children and Young Adult Winner - Spies in the Sky by Beverley McWilliams.
An Award for: Australian women, writing Literary fiction and non-fiction.
The Prize: $50,000.
2024 Winner
An Award For: distinguished fiction by an American author.
Previous Winners Include: Donna Tartt, Cormac Mccarthy, Jeffrey Eugenides.
2024 Winner:
An Award for: Australian books of all persuasions.
Voted by: Australian ‘Book makers’: authors, editors, publishing professionals and retailers.
Literary Fiction Book of the Year
International Book of the Year
An Award For: Lifetime contribution to literature.
Previous Winners Include: T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemmingway, Doris Lessing, Patrick White.
2024 Nobel Laureate for Literature: Han Kang
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