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Learning Resource Centre: Award Winning Books

The Booker Prizes

 

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

Miles Franklin Literary Award

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

Indies

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

Readings Prizes


 

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

Women's Prize

                         

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: 

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards


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

Children's Book Council of Australia


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 Book of the Year

Dymocks Booksellers nominated their favourite book published in 2024 and the winner is:

Historical Novel Society Australasia

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.

Stella Prize

An Award for: Australian women, writing Literary fiction and non-fiction.
The Prize: $50,000.

2024 Winner

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

An Award For: distinguished fiction by an American author. 
Previous Winners Include: Donna Tartt, Cormac Mccarthy, Jeffrey Eugenides. 

2024 Winner: 

Australian Book Industry Awards

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

Nobel Prize in Literature

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

Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024

 

          

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