2000    "Drylands", Thea Astley
         "Benang", Kim Scott

1999    "Eucalyptus", Murray Bail

1998    "Jack Maggs", Peter Carey

1997    "The Glade within the Grove", David Foster

1996    "Highways to a War", Christopher Koch

1995    "The Hand That Signed the Paper", Helen Demidenko

1994    "The Grisly Wife", Rodney Hall

1993    "The Ancestor Game", Alex Miller

1992    "Cloudstreet", Tim Winton

1991    "The Great World", David Malouf

1990    "Oceana Fine", Tom Flood

1989    "Oscar and Lucinda", Peter Carey

Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement.

1987    "Dancing on Coral", Glenda Adams

1986    "The Well", Elizabeth Jolley

1985    "The Doubleman", Christopher Koch

1984    "Shallows", Tim Winton

1983    No award.

1982    "Just Relations", Rodney Hall

1981    "Bliss", Peter Carey

1980    "The Impersonators", Jessica Anderson

1979    "A Woman of the Future", David Ireland

1978    "Tirra Lirra by the River", Jessica Anderson

1977    "Swords and Crowns and Rings", Ruth Park

1976    "The Glass Canoe", David Ireland

1975    "Poor Fellow My Country", Xavier Herbert

1974    "The Mango Tree", Ronald McKie

1973    No award.

1972    "The Acolyte", Thea Astley

1971    "The Unknown Industrial Prisoner", David Ireland

1970    "A Horse of Air", Dal Stivens

1969    "Clean Straw for Nothing", George Johnston

1968    "Three Cheers for the Paraclete", Thomas Keneally

1967    "Bring Larks and Heroes", Thomas Keneally

1966    "Trap", Peter Mathers

1965    "The Slow Natives", Thea Astley

1964    "My Brother Jack", George Johnston

1963    "Careful He Might Hear You", Sumner Locke Elliott

1962    "The Well Dressed Explorer", Thea Astley
         "The Cupboard Under the Stairs," George Turner

1961    "Riders in the Chariot", Patrick White

1960    "The Irishman", Elizabeth O'Connor

1959    "The Big Fellow", Verne Parker

1958    "To the Islands", Randolph Stow

1957    "Voss", Patrick White

2000 Shortlist

The winners of the 2000 award were Drylands by Thea Astley and Benang by Kim Scott.

     "Drylands", Thea Astley
     "Too Many Men", Lily Brett
     "What a Piece of Work", Dorothy Porter
     "Benang", Kim Scott
     "Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop", Amy Witting

1999 Shortlist

The winner of the 1999 award was Eucalyptus by Murray Bail.

     "Eucalyptus", Murray Bail
     "Red Shoes", Carmen Bird
     "The Golden Dress", Marion Halligan
     "Mr Darwin's Shooter", Roger McDonald
     "Three Dollars", Elliot Perlman

1998 Shortlist

The winner of the 1998 award was Jack Maggs by Peter Carey.

     "Jack Maggs", Peter Carey
     "The Sound of One Hand Clapping", Richard Flanagan
     "The Service of Clouds", Delia Falconer
     "Lovesong", Elizabeth Jolley
     "Nightpictures", Rod Jones
     "One for the Master", Dorothy Johnston
     "Wrack", James Brackley

1997 Shortlist

The winner of the 1997 award was The Glade within the Grove by David Foster.

     "The Drowner", Robert Drewe
     "The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow", Thea Astley
     "The Conversations at Curlow Creek", David Malouf
     "The Glade within the Grove", David Foster
     "Oyster", Janette Turner Hospital
     "Before I Wake", John Scott
     "Night Letters", Robert Dessaix

1996 Shortlist

The winner of the 1996 award was Highways to a War by Christopher Koch.

     "The White Garden", Carmel Bird
     "The House in the Light", Beverley Farmer
     "Bracelet Honeymyrtle", Judith Fox
     "The Touchstone", Paul Horsfall
     "Highways to a War", Christopher Koch
     "Camille's Bread", Amanda Lohrey
     "The Sitters", Alex Miller
 
 
 
 

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