Book Awards

Australian

Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards

ABC Fiction Award 2008
Winner – Main Massin, God for the Killing

Children’s Book Council of Western Australia

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Adult)

Man Booker Prizes 2008 (Adult)
Winner – Anne Enright, Gathering
Shortlisted – Nicola Barker, Darklands

Mohsin Hamid, Reluctant Fundamentalist

Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

Indra Sinha, Animals People

Miles Franklin Award 2008 (Adult)
Winner – Steven Carroll, Time We Have Taken
Shortlisted – Alex Miller, Landscape of Farewell

Rodney Hall, Love Without Hope

Gail Jones, Sorry

David Brooks, Fern Tattoo

Christopher Koch, Memory Room

Longlisted – Janette Turner Hospital, Orpheus Lost

Nicholas Shakespeare, Secrets of the Sea

Tom Keneally, Window and Her Hero

West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award

United Kingdom

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (Adult)

United States of America

Pulitzer Prize for Literature 2008 (Adult)
Winner – Junot Diaz, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Shortlisted – Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

Lore Segal, Shakespeare’s Kitchen

International

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2008
Winner – Sonya Hartnett

Nobel Laureates in Literature (Adult)

Reference

For a comprehensive list of book awards, visit http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/