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HarperCollinsPublishers Australia are proud to announce these recent award winners and nominees. Awards are arranged in five categories - click a category below for details of award winners and nominees. Click a book's title for more information about that book.

Fiction | Children's | Non-Fiction | Design & Print Production

FICTION AWARDS

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK - Geraldine Brooks

THE TIME WE HAVE TAKEN - Steven Carroll

THE NEW SPACE OPERA

THE GRAVE TATTOO - Val McDermid

THE LAST CHINESE CHEF - Nicole Mones

THE ZOOKEEPER'S WAR - Stephen Conte

THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU - Sally Vickers

ORPHEUS LOST - Janette Turner Hospital

THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION - Michael Chabon

DARKMANS - Nicola Barker

BROKEN SKIN - Stuart MacBride

TEMERAIRE - Naomi Novik

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WHITE TIGER - Kylie Chan

CROOK AS ROOKWOOD - Chris Nyst

MARCH - Geraldine Brooks

THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY - Tash Aw

2008 Australian Book Industry Awards
Winner
Literary Fiction Book of the Year
Book of the Year

People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks

2008 Miles Franklin Award
Winner
The Time We Have Taken - Steven Carroll

2008 Locus Awards
Best SF Novel
Winner

The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
Best Anthology
Winner

The New Space Opera - ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathon Strahan

2008 Gourmand Cookbook Awards
Best Book on Chinese Cuisine
Runner-up
The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones

2008 Julius Vogel Award
Best Novel
Winner
Path of Revenge - Russell Kirkpatrick

2008 James Tiptree Jr Award
Honour Books
The Empress of Mijak - Karen Miller
The Riven Kingdom - Karen Miller

2008 Ditmar Awards
Best Collected Work and Best WA Professional Production
Winner
The New Space Opera - ed. Jonathon Strahan & Gardner Dozois

2008 Galaxy British Book Awards
Reader's Digest Author of the Year
Shortlisted
Doris Lessing
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Crime Thriller of the Year
Shortlisted

The Grave Tattoo - Val McDermid
Richard & Judy's Best Read of the Year
Shortlisted
Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
Children's Book of the Year
Shortlisted
Best Mate - Michael Morpurgo (published in the UK as Born to Run)

2008 Kiriyama Prize
Shortlisted
The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones
Mosquito - Roma Tearne

2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize
South-East Asia and South Pacific Region
Shortlisted: Best First Book
The Zookeeper's War
- Steven Conte
Winner: Best Book
The Time We Have Taken - Steven Carroll

2008 Le Prince Maurice Prize
Shortlisted
The Other Side of You
- Sally Vickers

The Romantic Novelists' Association 2008 Romantic Novel of the Year
Winner
Pillow Talk
- Freya North

The 2008 Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards
Winner - Best First Historical Romance
Claiming the Courtesan
- Anna Campbell

Adelaide 2008 Festival Award for Fiction
Shortlisted
Orpheus Lost
- Janette Turner Hospital

2008 Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America
Best Novel
Shortlisted
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Michael Chabon

2007 Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted
Darkmans
- Nicola Barker

2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Fiction
Shortlisted
Orpheus Lost
- Janette Turner Hospital

2007 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction
Shortlisted
The Time We Have Taken
- Steven Carroll

2007 The Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction
Shortlisted
The Time We Have Taken
- Steven Carroll

2007 Crime Writers Association Awards
Winner - 'Dagger in the Library'
Broken Skin
- Stuart MacBride

2007 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
Shortlisted
The Infernal Optimist
- Linda Jaivin

2007 Locus Award for Best First Novel
Winner
Temeraire
- Naomi Novik

2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
Winner
Half of a Yellow Sun
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2007 Galaxy British Book Awards (Nibbies)
TV and Film Book of the Year
Winner
The Devil Wears Prada
- Lauren Weisberger

2006 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy and Science Fiction
Best Science Fiction Novel
Shortlisted
Geodesica Descent
- Sean Williams and Shane Dix
Best Fantasy Novel
Shortlisted
Heart of the Mirage
- Glenda Larke
Honourable Mention
White Tiger - Kylie Chan

2006 Portico Prize for Fiction
Winner
The Grave Tattoo - Val McDermid

2006 Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing
Best Crime Fiction Award
Winner
Crook as Rookwood - Chris Nyst

2006 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted
March - Geraldine Brooks
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction
Shortlisted
Hanoi, Adieu - Mandaley Perkins
The Patricia Wrightson Prize
Shortlisted
The Secret World of Wombats - Jackie French
The Gleebooks Prize
Shortlisted
Conquest: A New History of the Modern World - David Day

2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Winner
March - Geraldine Brooks

2006 Ditmar Awards
Winner
Geodesica: Ascent - Sean Williams and Shane Dix

2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
South East Asia and Pacific region
Best First Book
Winner
The Harmony Silk Factory - Tash Aw
Shortlisted
Affection
- Ian Townsend
Winter Journey - Diane Armstrong
Best Book
Shortlisted
March
- Geraldine Brooks

CHILDRENS AWARDS

PHARAOH - Jackie French

THE SHADOW THIEF - Alexandra Adornetto

DREAMQUAKE - Elizabeth Knox

LOOKING FOR ALASKA - John Green

THE GOLDSEEKERS - Greg Bastian

EMILY EYEFINGER AND THE CITY IN THE SKY - Duncan Ball

THE GOAT WHO SAILED THE WORLD - Jackie French

HITLER'S DAUGHTER - Jackie French

2008 Australian Book Industry Awards
Shortlisted - Book of the Year for Older Children
The Shadow Thief - Alexandra Adornetto

2008 Carnegie Medal
Shortlisted
Finding Violet Park - Jenny Valentine

2008 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
Best Book for Older Readers
Shortlisted
Pharaoh - Jackie French
Best Book for Younger Readers
Shortlisted
The Shaggy Gully Times - Jackie French & Bruce Whatley
Notable Books
Doomsday - James Moloney
Master of the Books - James Moloney
Game as Ned - Tim Pegler
Hello God - Moya Simmons

2008 White Ravens
Awarded to Books of Exceptional Artistic and Literary Style
Winners
The Shadow Thief
- Alexandra Adornetto
The Shaggy Gully Times - Jackie French & Bruce Whatley

2007 Michael L. Printz Award
Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Honor Book
Dreamquake
- Elizabeth Knox

2007 Silver Inky
Best International Book for Young Adult Readers
Winner
Looking for Alaska - John Green

2007 KROC (Kids Reading Oz Choice) Award
Favourite Book
Winner
Diary of a Wombat - Jackie French & Bruce Whatley

2007-8 Essex Book Award
Shortlisted
They Came on Viking Ships - Jackie French (published as Slave Girl in the United Kingdom)

2007 Childrens Peace Literature Award
Shortlisted
The Goldseekers - Greg Bastian

2007 Australian Book Industry Awards
Book of the Year for Younger Children
Winner
Josephine Wants to Dance - Jackie French and Bruce Whatley

2007 KOALA awards(Kids Own Australian Literature Awards)
Picturebooks
Shortlisted
Josephine Wants to Dance - Jackie French and Bruce Whatley

Fiction for Younger Readers
Shortlisted
Emily Eyefinger And The City In The Sky - Duncan Ball
Selby Shattered - Duncan Ball

Fiction for Older Readers
Shortlisted
The Goat Who Sailed the World - Jackie French
Hitler's Daughter - Jackie French

2006 YABBAs (Young Australian Best Books Awards)
Favourite Book for Younger Readers
Winner
Selby's Shemozzle - Duncan Ball

2006 Esther Glen Award (NZ)
Winner
Dreamhunter - Elizabeth Knox

2006 NSW Premier's History Awards
Young People's History Prize
Shortlisted
They Came on Viking Ships - Jackie French

2006 Whitley Awards
Commendation
Leaf Litter - Rachel Tonkin

NON FICTION AWARDS

VIETNAM - Paul Ham

THE REST IS NOISE - Alex Ross

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING - Joan Didion

THE LOST - Daniel Mendelsohn

A DEATH IN BELMONT - Sebastian Junger

THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS - Conn & Hal Iggulden

2008 Australian Book Industry Awards
Shortlisted - Biography of the Year
Andrew Johns: The Two of Me - Andrew Johns & Neil Cadigan
Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This - Bruce Beresford
Shortlisted - Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Vietnam - Paul Ham

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Winner
The Rest is Noise
- Alex Ross

2008 Orwell Prize
Longlisted
What's Left
- Nick Cohen
Six Degrees - Mark Lynas
William Wilberforce - William Hague

2007 World Food Media Awards
Winner - Best Children's Cookbook
Nora's Dinners
- Nora Sands

2007 Prix Medicis - Essai
Winner
The Year of Magical Thinking
- Joan Didion

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Best Memoir
Winner
The Lost
- Daniel Mendelsohn

2007 Edgar Awards
Best True Crime Book
Winner
Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
- James Swanson

2007 L.L.Winship / PEN New England Award
Best Non-Fiction Book
Winner
A Death in Belmont
- Sebastian Junger

2007 Galaxy British Book Awards (Nibbies)
Borders Book of the Year
Winner
The Dangerous Book For Boys
- Conn & Hal Iggulden

2006 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award
Shortlisted
An Angel in the Court - Anne Henderson

2006 Hawthornden Prize
Winner
Stuart: A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters

The Kiriyama Prize
Winner
Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
- Piers Vitebsky

Guardian First Book Award
Winner
Stuart: A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters

DESIGN AWARDS

OCTAVIUS O'MALLEY AND THE MYSTERY OF THE EXPLODING CHEESE - Alan Sunderland

ADVERBS - Daniel Handler

ON, OFF - Colleen McCullough

GHOST TIDE - Yo Yo

POMEGRANATE SOUP - Marsha Mehran

PLAYING WITH WATER - Kate Llewellyn

2007 Australian Publishers' Association Book Design Awards
Bloomin' Books Best Designed Childrens Fiction Book
Winner

Octavius O'Malley and the Mystery of the Exploding Cheese - Alan Sunderland
Designer: Darren Holt

The Allen & Unwin Best Designed Literary Fiction Book
Winner
Adverbs - Daniel Handler
Designer: The HarperCollins Design Studio

The 2007 Galley Club Awards for Excellence in Production and Print
Winner

Leaf Litter
- Rachel Tonkin
Production by Joan Raftery
Highly commended
M.O.T.H.E.R: A Tribute - Danny Katz
Production by Jill Donald

The Penguin Books Australia Best Designed Commercial Fiction Book
Winner
Crook as Rookwood - Chris Nyst
Cover Designer: Michael Donahue
Shortlisted

On, Off - Colleen McCullough
Cover Designer: Katy Wright

The Allen & Unwin Best Designed Literary Fiction Book
Winner
Ghost Tide - Yo Yo and Ben Carrdus
Designer: Natalie Winter
Shortlisted
Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
Cover Designer: Natalie Winter

The Better Read Than Dead Bookshop Best Designed Literary Non-Fiction Book
Shortlisted
Playing With Water - Kate Llewellyn
Cover Designer: Katie Mitchell

The Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
Winner
Absurdistan - Eric Campbell
Cover Designer: Katherine Hall, de Luxe & Associates

McPherson's Printing Best Designed Cover of the Year
Shortlisted
Absurdistan - Eric Campbell
Cover Designer: Katherine Hall, de Luxe & Associates

The 2006 Galley Club Awards for Excellence in Production and Print
Winner
Playing With Water - Kate Llewellyn
Production by Jill Donald
Shortlisted
Ghost Tide - Yo Yo and Ben Carrdus
Production by Jill Donald
Frankenstein - Margete Lamond and Drahos Zak
Production by Joan Raftery





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