Dobbie Literary Award

Given by State Library of New South Wales

64 Works 5,300 Books 344 Reviews ½ 3.7
Stages:
All, Winner (22), Shortlist (41), Longlist (1)
Years:
All, 2018 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2014 (3), 2013 (4), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (5), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (2), 2001 (4), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (5), 1996 (1), 1994 (1)

Winner 22

WorkYear
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein2018
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar2016
Heat and Light (David Unaipon Award Winners Series) by Ellen van Neerven2015
Madness : a memoir by Kate Richards2014
Toyo by Lily Chan2013
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett2012
Night street by Kristel Thornell2011
The Book Of Emmett by Deborah Forster2010
Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas2009
The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee2008
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch2007
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany2006
Secret Life of Annette Robinson A Novel by Paulette Gittins2005
The Alphabet of Light and Dark by Danielle Wood2004
The Bean Patch: A Memoir by Shirley Painter2003
The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology by Julie Marcus2002
Craft for a Dry Lake by Kim Mahood2001
Off the rails : the Pauline Hanson trip by Margo Kingston2000
Hiam by Eva Sallis1999
Steam Pigs (UQP Black Australian Writers) by Melissa Lucashenko1998
Listening for Small Sounds by Penelope Trevor1997
My own sweet time by Wanda Koolmatrie1996

Shortlist 41

WorkYear
Troppo by Madelaine Dickie2018
The Healing Party by Micheline Lee2018
Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett2016
Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski2016
The Strays by Emily Bitto2015
After Darkness by Christine Piper2015
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane2014
High Sobriety: My Year without Booze by Jill Stark2014
Floundering by Romy Ash2013
The Untold by Courtney Collins2013
End of the Night Girl by Amy T. Matthews2012
Bearings by Leah Swann2012
My Sister Chaos by Lara Fergus2011
Come Inside by G L Osborne2011
Little White Slips by Karen Hitchcock2010
The Nature of Ice by Robyn Mundy2010
Arthur Boyd : a life by Darleen Bungey2009
Addition by Toni Jordan2009
Nine Parts Water by Emma Hardman2008
A Curious Intimacy by Jessica White2008
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan2007
Waterlemon by Ruth Ritchie2007
An Uncommon Dialogue by Debra Drake2006
In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden2006
Out of the silence : a story of love, betrayal, politics and murder by Wendy James2006
Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land by Mary Ellen Jordan2006
Salt Rain by Sarah Armstrong2005
The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Kimberley Starr2005
A Story Dreamt Long Ago by Phyllis McDuff2004
Asylum: Voices Behind the Razor Wire by Heather Tyler2004
Borrowed Eyes by Saskia Beudel2003
Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island by Rebe Taylor2003
Mother lode : stories of home life and home death by Susan Addison2002
Bruising : a journey through gender by Mischa Merz2001
The Fishcastle by Elizabeth Stead2001
Love and Vertigo by Hsu-Ming Teo2001
Night Surfing by Fiona Capp1997
Dirt and other stories by Catherine Ford1997
When You Grow Up by Connie Nungulla McDonald1997
Fairytales in Reality - My Victory Over Manic Depression by Margo Orum1997
Forever baby : Jenny's story - a mother's diary by Mary Burbidge1994

Longlist 1

WorkYear
Red Dirt Talking by Jacqueline Wright2013

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