Last Updated: 22 December 2024
Prize Winning Fiction
On this page are the winners of the following prizes:Prize Winning Fiction
Books read are noted in Bold. Books reviewed on this blog include links to my review
2024 Night Watch, Jayne Anne Phillips
2023 Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver and Trust, Hernan Diaz
2022 The Netanayhus, Joshua Cohen
2021 The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
2020 The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead 
2019 The Overstory, Richard Powers
2018 Less, Andrew Sean Greer
2017 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
2016 The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
2014 The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
2013 The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
2012 none
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan.
2018 Less, Andrew Sean Greer
2017 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
2016 The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
2014 The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
2013 The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
2012 none
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan.
2009 Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
2008 The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
2006 March, Geraldine Brooks
2005 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 
2004 The Known World, Edward P Jones
2003 Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 The Hours, Michael Cunningham
1998 American Pastoral, Phillip Roth
1997 Martin Dressler, Steven Millhauser
1996 Independence Day, Richard Ford
1995 The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1994 The Shipping News, E Annie Proulx
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler
1992 A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley 
1991 Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos
1989 Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
1987 A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
1986 Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
1985 Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
1984 Ironweed, William Kennedy
1983 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982 Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
1980 The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer
1979 The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
1978 Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson
1977 none
1976 Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
1975 The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
1974 none
1973 The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty 
1972 Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
1971 none
1970 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, Jean Stafford
1969 House Made of Dawn, N Scott Momaday
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
1967 The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Porter
1965 The Keepers of the House, Shirley Ann Grau
1964 none
1963 The Reivers, William Faulkner
1962 The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O'Connor
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1960 Advise and Consent, Allen Drury
1959 The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 A Death in the Family, James Agee 
1957 none
1956 Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor
1955 A Fable, William Faulkner
1954 none
1952 The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
1951 The Town, Conrad Richter
1950 The Way West, A B Guthrie Jr
1949 Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens
1948 Tales of the South Pacific, James A Michener
1947 All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
1946 none 
1945 A Bell for Adano, John Herset
1944 Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin
1943 Dragon's Teeth, Upton Sinclair
1942 This is our Life, Ellen Glasgow
1941 none
1940 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1939 The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 The Late George Apley, John Phillips Marquand
1937 Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
1936 Honey in the Horn, Harold L Davis
1935 Now in November, Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934 The Lamb in his Bosom, Caroline Miller
1933 The Store, Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1932 The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck
1931 Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930 Laughing Boy, Oliver La Farge
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin
1928 The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
1927 Early Autumn, Louis Bromfield
1926 Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
1925 So Big, Edna Ferber
1924 The Able McLaughlins, Margaret Wilson 
1923 One of Ours, Willa Cather
1922 Alice Adams, Booth Tarkington
1920 none
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
1918 His Family, Ernest Poole
2023 Prophet Song, Paul Lynch
2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
2021 The Promise, Damon Galgut
2020 Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
2019 The Testaments, Margaret Atwood AND
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
2018 Milkman, Anna Burns
2017 Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
2016 The Sellout, Paul Beatty
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
2013 The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
2012 Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
2011 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
2018 Milkman, Anna Burns
2016 The Sellout, Paul Beatty
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
2013 The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
2012 Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
2011 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
2010 The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
2009 Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
2008 The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
2006 The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
2005 The Sea, John Banville
2003 Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
2000 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
1999 Disgrace, J M Coetzee
1997 The God of Small Things, Arandhati Roy
1996 Last Orders, Graham Swift 
1995 The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
1994 How late it was, how late, James Kelman
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
1992 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
1992 Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth
1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri
1990 Possession, A S Byatt
1989 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
1987 Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
1986 The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
1985 The Bone People, Keri Hulme
1984 Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
1983 Life and Times of Michael K, J M Coetzee
1982 Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally
1981 Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
1980 Rites of Passage, William Golding
1979 Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch 
1977 Staying On, Paul Scott
1976 Saville, David Storey
1975 Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
1974 Holiday, Stanley Middleton
1973 The Siege of Krshnapur, J G Farrell
1972 G., John Berger
1971 In a Free State, V S Naipaul
1970 The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens
1969 Something to Answer For, P H Newby
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Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction (Canada)
2024 Empty Spaces, Jordan Abel
2023 Chrysalis, Anuja Varghese
2022 Pure Colour, Sheila Heti
2021 Tianna: The Unseen Ones, Norma Dunning
2020 Five Little Indians, Michelle Good
2019 Five Wives, Joan Thomas2018 The Red Word, Sarah Henstra
2016 Do not say that we have nothing, Madeleine Thien
2015 Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, Guy Vanderhaeghe
2014 The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King
2013 The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
2012 The Purchase, Linda Spalding
2011 The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
2010 Cool Water, Dianne Watten
2009 The Mistress of Nothing, Kate Pullinger
2008 The Origin of Species, Nino Ricci
2007 Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
2006 The Law of Dreams, Peter Behrens
2005 A Perfect Night to go to China, David Gilmour
2004 A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
2003 Elle, Douglas Glover
2002 A Song for Nettie Johnson, GLoria Sawai
2001 Clara Callan, Richard B Wright
2000 Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
1999 Elizabeth and After, Matt Cohen
1997 The Underpainter, Jane Urquhart
1996 The Englishman's Boy, Guy Vanderhaeghe
1995 The Roaring Girl, Greg Hollingshead
1994 A Discovery of Strangers, Rudy Wiebe
1993 The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1992 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
1991 Such a Long Journey, Rohinton Mistry
1990 Lives of the Saints, Nino Ricci
1989 Whale Music, Paul Quarrington
1988 Night Below Station Street, David Adams Richards
1987 A Dream Like Mine, MT Kelly
1986 The Progress of Love, Alice Munro
1985 The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
1984 The Engineer of Human Souls, Joseph Svorecky
1983 Shakespeare's Dog, Leon Rooke
1982 Man Descending, Guy Vanderhaeghe
1980 Burning Water, George Bowering
1979 The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, Jack Hodgins
1978 Who do you think you are?, Alice Munro
1977 The Wars, Timothy Findley
1976 Bear, Marian Engel
1975 The Great Victorian Collection, Brian Moore
1974 The Diviners, Margaret Laurence
1973 The Temptations of Big Bear, Rudy Wiebe
1972 The Manticore, Robertson Davies
1971 St Urban's Horseman, Mordecai Richler
1970 The New Ancestors, David Godfrey
1969 The Stud Horse, Robert Kroetsch
1968 Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice Munro
1967 None
1966 A Jest of God, Margaret Laurence.
1965 None
1964 The Desserter, Douglas LePan
1963 Hugh Garner's Best Stories, Hugh Garner
1962 Running to Paradise, Kildare Dobbs
1961 Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, Malcolm Lowry
1960 The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Brian Moore
1959 The Watch that Ends Night,
1958 Execution, Colin McDougall
1957 Streets of Riches, Gabrielle Roy
1956 The Sacrifice, Adele Wiseman
1955 The Sixth of June, Lionel Shapiro
1954 The Fall of a Titan, Igor Gouzenko
1953 Digby, David Walker
1952 The Pillar, David Walker
1951 The Loved and the Lost, Morley Callaghan
1950 The Outlander, Germain Guevremont
1949 Mr Ames Against Time, Philip Child
1947 The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy
1946 Continental Revue, Winnifred Bambrick
1945 Two Solitudes, Hugh Maclennan
1944 Earth and High Heaven, Gwethalyn Graham
1943 The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, Thomas H Radall
1942 The Dark Weaver, Laura Salverson
1941 Three Came to Ville Marie, Alan Sullivan
1940 Thirty Acres, Ringuet
1939 The Champlain Road, Franklin D McDowell
1938 Swiss Sonata, Gwethalyn Graham
1937 The Dark Weaver, Laura Salverson
1936 Think of the Earth, Bertram Booker
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2018 Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
2017 The Power, Naomi Alderman
2016 The Glorious Heresies, Lisa McInerney
2015 How to Be Both, Ali Smith
2014 A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimaer McBride
2013 May We Be Forgiven, AM Homes
2012 The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
2011 The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
2010 The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
2009 Home, Marilynne Robinson
2008 The Road Home, Rose Tremain
2007 Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2006 On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2005 We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
2004 Small Island, Andrea Levy
2003 Property, Valerie Martin
2002 Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
2001 The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville
2000 When I Lived in Modern Times, Linda Grant
1999 A Crime in the Neighbourhood, Suzanne Berne
1998 Larry's Party, Carol Shields
1997 Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
1996 A Spell of Winter, Helen Dunmore
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2023 Bodies of Light, Jennifer Down
2021 The Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey
2020 The Yield, Tara June Winch
2019 Too Much Lip, Melissa Lucashenko
2018 The Life to Come, Michelle de Krester1959 The Watch that Ends Night,
1958 Execution, Colin McDougall
1957 Streets of Riches, Gabrielle Roy
1956 The Sacrifice, Adele Wiseman
1955 The Sixth of June, Lionel Shapiro
1954 The Fall of a Titan, Igor Gouzenko
1953 Digby, David Walker
1952 The Pillar, David Walker
1951 The Loved and the Lost, Morley Callaghan
1949 Mr Ames Against Time, Philip Child
1947 The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy
1946 Continental Revue, Winnifred Bambrick
1945 Two Solitudes, Hugh Maclennan
1944 Earth and High Heaven, Gwethalyn Graham
1943 The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, Thomas H Radall
1942 The Dark Weaver, Laura Salverson
1941 Three Came to Ville Marie, Alan Sullivan
1940 Thirty Acres, Ringuet
1939 The Champlain Road, Franklin D McDowell
1938 Swiss Sonata, Gwethalyn Graham
1937 The Dark Weaver, Laura Salverson
1936 Think of the Earth, Bertram Booker
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Women's Prize for Fiction (prev. Orange/Bailey's Prize)
2024 Brotherless Night, VV Ganeshananthan
2023 Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
2022 The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
2019 An American Marriage, Tayari Jones2018 Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
2016 The Glorious Heresies, Lisa McInerney
2015 How to Be Both, Ali Smith
2014 A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimaer McBride
2013 May We Be Forgiven, AM Homes
2012 The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
2011 The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht
2010 The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
2009 Home, Marilynne Robinson
2008 The Road Home, Rose Tremain
2007 Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2006 On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2005 We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
2004 Small Island, Andrea Levy
2003 Property, Valerie Martin
2002 Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
2001 The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville
1999 A Crime in the Neighbourhood, Suzanne Berne
1998 Larry's Party, Carol Shields
1997 Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
1996 A Spell of Winter, Helen Dunmore
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Miles Franklin Award (Australia)
2024 Praiseworthy, Alexis Wright
2023 Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Shankari Chandran2023 Bodies of Light, Jennifer Down
2021 The Labyrinth, Amanda Lohrey
2020 The Yield, Tara June Winch
2019 Too Much Lip, Melissa Lucashenko
2017 Extinctions, Josephine Wilson
2016 Black Rock, White City, A S Patric
2015 The Eye of the Sheep, Sophie Laguna
2014 All the Birds, Singing, Evie Wild
2013 Questions of Travel, Michelle de Kretser
2012 All That I Am, Anna Funder
2011 That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
2010 Truth, Peter Temple
2009 Breath, Tim Winton
2008 The Time We Have Taken, Steven Carroll
2007 Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
2006 The Ballad of Desmond Kale, Roger McDonald
2005 The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
2004 The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
2003 Journey to the Stone Country, Alex Miller
2002 Dirt Music, Tim Winton
2001 Dark Palace, Frank Moorhouse
2000 Drylands, Thea Astley AND 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
1988 No award
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 AND
The Cupboard Under the Stairs, George Turner
1961 Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
1960 The Irishman, Elizabeth O'Conner
1959 The Big Fellow, Vance Palmer
1958 To the Islands, Randolph Stow
1957 Voss, Patrick White
2000 Drylands, Thea Astley AND 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.
1991 The Great World, David Malouf
1990 Oceana Fine, Tom Flood
1989 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
1988 No award
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.
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 AND
The Cupboard Under the Stairs, George Turner
1961 Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
1960 The Irishman, Elizabeth O'Conner
1959 The Big Fellow, Vance Palmer
1958 To the Islands, Randolph Stow
1957 Voss, Patrick White