South Australian Literary Awards

Given by State Library of South Australia

Other Names: Adelaide Festival Literary Awards (-2022), Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, John Bray Poetry Award, South Australian Festival Award
70 Works 26,513 Books 801 Reviews 4.0
Stages:
All, Winner (68), Shortlist (2)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2022 (5), 2020 (6), 2018 (6), 2016 (6), 2014 (5), 2012 (5), 2010 (4), 2008 (4), 2006 (4), 2004 (3), 2002 (3), 2001 (1), 2000 (2), 1998 (2), 1996 (2), 1994 (2), 1992 (2), 1990 (2), 1988 (2), 1986 (4)

Winner 68

WorkCategoryYear
We Are Wolves by Katrina NannestadChildren's Literature2022
Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography by Helen EnnisNonfiction2022
Fifteeners by Jordie AlbistonPoetry2022
The Yield by Tara June WinchPremier's Award, Fiction2022
The Gaps by Leanne HallYoung Adult Fiction2022
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica TownsendChildren's Literature2020
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail JonesFiction2020
The Bible in Australia: A cultural history by Meredith LakeNon-Fiction2020
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce PascoePremier's Award2020
In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena DinićUnpublished Manuscript2020
Small Spaces by Sarah EpsteinYoung Adult Fiction2020
Dragonfly Song by Wendy OrrChildren's Literature2018
Missing Up by Pam BrownJohn Bray Poetry Award2018
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim WintonNon-Fiction2018
The last garden by EVA HORNUNGPremier's Award, Fiction2018
A New Name for the Colour Blue by Annette MarnerUnpublished Manuscript2018
My Sister Rosa by Justine LarbalestierYoung Adult2018
To Name Those Lost by Rohan WilsonFiction2016
Head of the River by Pip HarryLiterature shortlist2016
What Days Are For by Robert DessaixNon-Fiction2016
Waiting for the Past by Les MurrayPoetry2016
Figgy in the world by Tamsin JanuPremier's Award2016
Are You Seeing Me? by Darren GrothYoung Adult Fiction2016
How to Catch a Bogle by Catherine JinksChildren's Literature2014
Madness : a memoir by Kate RichardsNon-fiction2014
The sunlit zone by Lisa JacobsonPoetry2014
Cold Light by Frank MoorhousePremier’s Award2014
Friday Brown by Vikki WakefieldYoung Adult2014
Taj and the great camel trek by Rosanne HawkeChildren2012
That Deadman Dance by Kim ScottFiction2012
An eye for eternity : the life of Manning Clark by Mark McKennaNon-Fiction2012
All I Ever Wanted by Vikki WakefieldYA Fiction2012
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun TanChildren2010
Ransom by David MaloufFiction2010
Barley Patch by Gerald MurnaneInnovation2010
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill RoeNon-Fiction2010
The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonaldFiction2008
Someone else : fictional essays by John HughesInnovation2008
Sunrise West by Jacob G. RosenbergNon-Fiction2008
Urban Myths - 210 Poems by John TranterPremier's award2008
Am I Right or Am I Right? by Barry JonsbergChildren's Literature2006
Sixty Lights by Gail JonesFiction2006
< More or less than > 1-100 by M. T. C. CroninInnovation2006
Velocity: A Memoir by Mandy SayerNon-Fiction2006
Moral Hazard by Kate JenningsFiction2004
The Eastern Slope Chronicle by Ouyang YuInnovation2004
Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island by Rebe TaylorNon-Fiction2004
Lirael by Garth NixChildren's Literature2002
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter CareyFiction2002
Leviathan: The unauthorised biography of Sydney by John BirminghamNon-Fiction2002
Abyssinia by Ursula DubosarskyChildren's Literature2001
Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonaldFiction2000
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds-On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea by Tim F. FlanneryNon-Fiction2000
The Drowner by Robert DreweFiction1998
Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia by David DayNon-Fiction1998
Death of a River Guide by Richard FlanaganFiction1996
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim FlanneryNon-Fiction1996
Grand Days by Frank MoorhouseFiction1994
Sort of a place like home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement by Susan MaushartNon-Fiction1994
The Great World by David MaloufFiction1992
Patrick White: A Life by David MarrNon-Fiction1992
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyFiction1990
The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914-1918 by Trevor WilsonNon-Fiction1990
Space Demons by Lian HearnChildren1988
Julia Paradise by Rod JonesFiction1988
The Long Night Watch by Ivan SouthallChildren1986
The Children's Bach by Helen GarnerFiction1986
Propinquity by John MacgregorFiction1986

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