Colin Roderick Award 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 has a prize of A$20,000. Starting in 1980, the H. T. Priestley Memorial Medal has also been bestowed upon the award winner.The Award was founded by Professor Colin Roderick, an Australian "writer, editor, academic and educator".Award winners 2019: Robert Drewe , The True Colour of the Sea 2018: Jock Serong , On the Java Ridge 2016: Josephine Wilson , Extinctions 2015: Gail Jones , A Guide to Berlin 2014: Michael Wilding , Wild Bleak Bohemia : Marcus Clarke , Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall - A Documentary 2013: , The Railwayman's Wife & Stephen Edgar , Eldershaw 2012: Thomas Keneally , The Daughters of Mars 2011: Gillian Mears , Foal's Bread 2010: , Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm 2009: Michael Cathcart, ' 2008: Graham Freudenberg , Churchill and Australia & James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land 2007: Malcolm Knox , Jamaica 2006: Deborah Robertson , Careless 2005: Peter Temple , The Broken Shore 2004: Alan Wearne , The Lovemakers & Tim Winton , The Turning 2003: Thomas 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 , ' 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 : Poems 1973: Dorothy Green , Ulysses Bound: Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction 1972: Sir Keith Hancock , Discovering Monaro 1971: Geoffrey Serle, The Rush to Be Rich 1970: Margaret Lawrie , Myths and Legends of Torres Strait 1969: Francis Webb , Collected Poems 1968: Gavin Souter, A Peculiar People 1967: Douglas Stewart , Collected Poems, 1936-1967
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