Awards

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Australian authors, books and publishers are celebrated through a wide range of book awards across the year, with details on a selection of these awards found below.

 

Industry book awards

The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) celebrate the achievements of authors and publishers in bringing Australian books to readers.

The first award winners were announced in 2001, and the ABIA is now presented by Books+Publishing, in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association.

 

Australian literary awards

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is Australia’s most prestigious literature prize. Established through the will of My Brilliant Career author, Miles Franklin, the prize is awarded each year to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.

Miles Franklin believed that “Without an indigenous literature, people can remain alien in their own soil.” 

 

 

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards began in 2008 and recognise individual excellence and the contribution Australian authors make to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.

Each year, we call for entries for books of high literary merit, and in the case of the Prize for Australian History, scholarly accomplishment.

 

 

The Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards was started by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) in 1946 with one category. The awards have grown and now there are five categories in the Book of the Year Awards and numerous other awards presented annually by the National Office and CBCA branches in each State and Territory.

 

 

The Stella Prize is a beloved and well-respected annual literary prize awarded to the most excellent, original and outstanding book written by an Australian woman or non-binary writer.

Starting in 2012, the Stella Prize is one of Australia’s most important literary prizes and the only one that recognises excellence in women’s writing.

 

 

 

The Voss Literary Prize is an award dedicated to the memory of Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss (1930-1963), an historian and lover of literature from Emu Park in Central Queensland who studied History and Latin at the University of Sydney and modern languages at the University of Rome, a literary award established to reward the best literary novel from the previous year.