Colin Roderick Award
Encyclopedia
The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies
at Queensland
's James Cook University
for "the best book published in Australia
which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presented in 1967 and currently has a prize of A$10,000. Since 1980 the H.T. Priestley Memorial Medal has also awarded to the award winner.
Australian literature
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to...
at Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
's James Cook University
James Cook University
James Cook University is a public university based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The university has two Australian campuses, located in Townsville and Cairns respectively, and an international campus in Singapore. JCU is the second oldest university in Queensland—proclaimed in 1970—and the...
for "the best book published in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presented in 1967 and currently has a prize of A$10,000. Since 1980 the H.T. Priestley Memorial Medal has also awarded to the award winner.
Award winners
- 20102010 in Australian literature-Awards and honours:*22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his crime novel Truth.-See also:* Literature* List of years in Australian literature* List of Australian literary awards* 2010 in Australia* 2010 in literature* 2010 in poetry...
:Karen Kissane, "Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday firestorm" - 20072007 in Australian literatureThe year 2007 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2007 in literature.See also:2006 in Australian literature,2007 in Australia,...
: Malcolm Knox, Jamaica - 20062006 in Australian literatureThe year 2006 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2006 in literature.See also:2005 in Australian literature,2006 in Australia,...
: Deborah RobertsonDeborah RobertsonDeborah Robertson is an Australian novelist, poet and journalist. She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia and completed a degree in Creative Writing at the Curtin University of Technology...
, CarelessCareless (novel)-Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2007: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted... - 20052005 in Australian literatureThe year 2005 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2005 in literature.See also:2004 in Australian literature,2005 in Australia,...
: Peter TemplePeter TemplePeter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...
, The Broken ShoreThe Broken ShoreThe Broken Shore is a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.-Plot Summary:The novel's central character is Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective. Following serious physical injuries he is posted to his hometown where he begins the process of rebuilding... - 20042004 in Australian literatureThe year 2004 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2004 in literature.See also:2003 in Australian literature,2004 in Australia,...
: Alan WearneAlan WearneAlan Wearne is an Australian poet.Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott...
, The Lovemakers & Tim WintonTim WintonTimothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....
, The TurningThe Turning (stories)The Turning is a collection of short stories by acclaimed Australian author Tim Winton. It was published in April 2005 by Picador. Many of the 17 short stories included interweave in their respective narratives, creating an intriguing and twisting central plot-line that generally centers around... - 20032003 in Australian literatureThe year 2003 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2003 in literature.See also:2002 in literature,2003 in Australia,2004 in Australian literature....
: Tom Keneally, The Tyrant's Novel - 2002: Don WatsonDon WatsonDon Watson is an Australian author and public speaker.-Biography:Watson grew up on a farm in Gippsland, took his undergraduate degree at La Trobe University and a Ph.D at Monash University and was for ten years an academic historian. He wrote three books on Australian history before turning his...
, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM - 2001: Peter Rose, Rose Boys
- 2000: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly GangTrue History of the Kelly GangTrue History of the Kelly Gang is an historical novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and...
- 1999: Christopher KochChristopher KochChristopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....
, Out of Ireland - 1998: Robert DessaixRobert Dessaix- Biography :Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He studied in Moscow during the early 1970s, and taught Russian Studies at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales from 1972 to 1984...
, (And So Forth) - 1997: Peter Edwards, A Nation at War
- 1996: Tim FlanneryTim FlanneryTimothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist....
, Roger Martin and Alexandra Szalay, Illustrator Peter Schouten, Tree Kangaroos - 1995: Judy CassabJudy CassabJudy Cassab CBE AO is an Australian painter. She has twice won the Archibald Prize.Judy Cassab was born Judit Kaszab in Vienna, Austria in 1920 to Hungarian parents...
, Diaries - 1994: Patrick Buckridge, The Scandalous Penton: A Biography of Brian Penton
- 1993: Cassandra Pybus, Gross Moral Turpitude:The Orr Case Reconsidered
- 1992: Ruth ParkRuth ParkRuth Park, AM was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow , and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat , which also spawned a book series .-Personal history:Park was born in...
, A Fence Around the Cuckoo - 1991: Joan Dugdale, Struggle of Memory
- 1990: Roland Griffiths-MarshRoland Griffiths-MarshCorporal Roland Griffiths-Marsh MM, is an Australian soldier and author.-Life:Griffiths-Marsh was born in Penang, Malaya , and grew up in Hai Phong, Indochina . On 29 February 1940, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted with the Second Australian Imperial Force, taking his older brother's name and...
, Sixpenny Soldier - 1989: Chris Symons, John Bishop: A Life for Music
- 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and LucindaOscar and LucindaOscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.-Plot introduction:...
- 1987: Nancy PhelanNancy PhelanNancy Phelan was an Australian writer who published over 25 books, including novels, biographies, memoirs, travel books and a cookbook...
, 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 GouldAlan GouldAlan Gould is a contemporary Australian novelist and poet.Born in London Alan Gould's family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966. He completed a BA at Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of...
, The Man Who Stayed Below - 1983: Dudley McCarthy, Gallipoli to the Somme
- 1982: Geoffrey SerleGeoffrey SerleGeoffrey Serle AO was an Australian historian, who is perhaps best known for his books on the colony of Victoria; The Golden Age and The Rush to be Rich and his biographies of John Monash, John Curtin and Robin Boyd....
, John Monash: A Biography - 1981: Gavin SouterGavin SouterGavin Geoffrey Souter AO is an Australian journalist and historian.He was born in Sydney and educated at Kempsey High School, and Scots College in Warwick, Queensland and then graduated BA from the University of Sydney...
, A Company of Heralds - 1980: Allan Grocott, Convicts, Clergymen and Churches
- 1979: Thea AstleyThea AstleyThea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
, Hunting the Wild Pineapple - 1978: Leslie Rees, History of Australian Drama
- 1977: Alan Marshall, The Complete Stories of Alan Marshall
- 1976: Gavin SouterGavin SouterGavin Geoffrey Souter AO is an Australian journalist and historian.He was born in Sydney and educated at Kempsey High School, and Scots College in Warwick, Queensland and then graduated BA from the University of Sydney...
, Lion and Kangaroo - 1975: Denis Murphy, TJ Ryan
- 1974: David MaloufDavid MaloufDavid George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
, Neighbours in a Thicket - 1973: Dorothy GreenDorothy AuchterlonieDorothy Auchterlonie AO was an English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet.-Life:Auchterlonie was born in Sunderland, County Durham in England...
, Ulysses Bound - 1972: Sir Keith HancockKeith HancockSir Keith Hancock KBE was an Australian historian.He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Archdeacon William Hancock. At the age of nine, he won the Royal Humane Society's medal for rescuing another child from drowning in the Mitchell River. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School...
, Discovering Monaro - 1971: Geoffrey SerleGeoffrey SerleGeoffrey Serle AO was an Australian historian, who is perhaps best known for his books on the colony of Victoria; The Golden Age and The Rush to be Rich and his biographies of John Monash, John Curtin and Robin Boyd....
, The Rush to be Rich - 1970: Margaret Lawne, Myths and Legends of Torres Strait
- 1969: Francis WebbFrancis Webb (poet)Francis Charles Webb-Wagg was an Australian poet who published under the name Francis Webb. "Diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia in the 1950s, he spent most of his adult life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, writing poetry against terrible odds." He is widely regarded as one of...
, Collected Poems - 1968: Gavin SouterGavin SouterGavin Geoffrey Souter AO is an Australian journalist and historian.He was born in Sydney and educated at Kempsey High School, and Scots College in Warwick, Queensland and then graduated BA from the University of Sydney...
, A Peculiar People - 1967: Douglas Stewart, Collected Poems, 1936-1967