Colin Roderick Award
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The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University, for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life."1 It was first presented in 1967 and currently has a prize of AUD10,000. Since 1980 the H.T. Priestley Memorial Medal has also awarded to the award winner.
Award winners
- 2007: Malcolm Knox, Jamaica
- 2006: Deborah Robertson, Careless
- 2005: Peter Temple, The Broken Shore
- 2004: Alan Wearne, The Lovemakers & Tim Winton, The Turning
- 2003: Tom Keneally, The Tyrant's Novel
- 2002: Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
- 2001: Peter Rose, Rose Boys
- 2000: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
- 1999: Christopher Koch, Out of Ireland
- 1998: Robert Dessaix, (And So Forth)
- 1997: Peter Edwards, A Nation at War
- 1996: Tim Flannery, Roger Martin and Alexandra Szalay, Illustrator Peter Schouten, Tree Kangaroos
- 1995: Judy Cassab, Diaries
- 1994: Patrick Buckridge, The Scandalous Penton: A Biography of Brian Penton
- 1993: Cassandra Pybus, Gross Moral Turpitude:The Orr Case Reconsidered
- 1992: Ruth Park, A Fence Around the Cuckoo
- 1991: Joan Dugdale, Struggle of Memory
- 1990: Roland Griffiths-Marsh, Sixpenny Soldier
- 1989: Chris Symons, John Bishop: A Life for Music
- 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
- 1987: Nancy Phelan, Home is the Sailor and The Best of Intentions
- 1986: Fr Tom Boland, James Duhig
- 1985: John Gunn, The Defeat of Distance:Qantas 1919-1939
- 1984: Alan Gould, The Man Who Stayed Below
- 1983: Dudley McCarthy, Gallipoli to the Somme
- 1982: Geoffrey Serle, John Monash: A Biography
- 1981: Gavin Souter, A Company of Heralds
- 1980: Allan Grocott, Convicts, Clergymen and Churches
- 1979: Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple
- 1978: Leslie Rees, History of Australian Drama
- 1977: Alan Marshall, The Complete Stories of Alan Marshall
- 1976: Gavin Souter, Lion and Kangaroo
- 1975: Denis Murphy, TJ Ryan
- 1974: David Malouf, Neighbours in a Thicket
- 1973: Dorothy Green, Ulysses Bound
- 1972: Sir Keith Hancock, Discovering Monaro
- 1971: Geoffrey Serle, The Rush to be Rich
- 1970: Margaret Lawne, Myths and Legends of Torres Strait
- 1969: Francis Webb, Collected Poems
- 1968: Gavin Souter, A Peculiar People
- 1967: Douglas Stewart, Collected Poems, 1936-1967
References
- ^ "Awards". James Cook University. http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/humanities/fals/JCUPRD_036167.html. Retrieved 2008-12-03.