In 1993 we added the poetry prize, which was named in honour of the late academic, broadcaster and critic Dinny O’Hearn. In 1974, there were two, for fiction and non-fiction, and they went to David Foster for his debut novel, The Pure Land, and Manning Clark for the third volume of A History of Australia. It is nearly 50 years since the Age prizes were first presented. The previous iteration of the award was last seen in 2012, when Tasmanian historian James Boyce won the overall prize for 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, while Gillian Mears won the fiction prize for Foal’s Blood and Mal McKimmie the poetry prize for The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems. It will be presented on Friday, September 3 – the opening night of the Melbourne Writers Festival, of which the newspaper is a media partner.
It’s been a while, but The Age Book of the Year is on the way back.
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