MWF, The Age return to the Book of the Year

Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) will partner with the Age newspaper, with the festival to present the Age Book of the Year award, which is returning after a nine-year hiatus.

The revived Age Book of the Year will be presented on MWF’s opening night on 3 September 2021. The awards were first presented in 1974, when David Foster won the fiction prize for The Pure Land and Manning Clark won the nonfiction prize for A History of Australia Volume III.  The last Age Book of the Year was presented in 2012 to James Boyce for 1835: The founding of Melbourne and the conquest of Australia. The full MWF 2021 line-up will be announced on 28 July.

The 1995 winner of the Age Book of the Year with Billy Sunday was Rod Jones, a graduate of Deakin’s PhD by Prior Publication program with the thesis ‘The Practice of Fiction’ in 2019. Check more details about Rod Jones, his PhD and his published work here.