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Literary Awards and Prizes
The following list does not include those times Jolley was short listed for an award or prize. Also, when a book appears twice (e.g., in 1983 Mr Scobie's Riddle), this indicates that it first won a section award (e.g., Imaginative Writing) and then was chosen from section winners as the overall winner of the competition (e.g., Book of the Year).
1966
Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria), Short Story
Award, for "A Hedge of Rosemary."
Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria), Moomba Con Weickhardt Prize for an Unpublished Novel (shared), for Palomino.
The Con Weickardt Prize was awarded annually until 1975 for the manuscript of a novel by a previously unpublished novelist, and then was renamed the Herb Thomas Literary Award and given for a published work of biography, autobiography or memoirs.
ABC Sound Stage Radio Drama Special Prize for a Radio Play, for "Night Report."
1980
Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria), Prose Fiction Award,
for Palomino.
Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria), Short Story Award, First Prize for "Running on the Spot" ["Two Men Running"].
Darling Downs Institute [now the University of Southern Queensland] McGregor Literary Competitions [1980-1981], First Prize for "Paper Children."
1981
SPACLALS [South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language
Studies], First Prize (shared) for "Hep Duck and Hildegarde the Meat."
Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria), Moomba Short Story Award, for "The Libation."
1982
AWGIE [Australian Writers' Guild] Award, Best Original Radio Play in 1981,
for "Two Men Running."
1983
Age Book of the Year Award, Imaginative Writing Prize, for Mr Scobie's
Riddle.
Age Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year, for Mr Scobie's
Riddle.
Western Australian Week Literary Award [predecessor of the Western Australian
Premier's Book Award], Prose Fiction, for Mr Scobie's Riddle.
1984
Literature Board of the Australia Council Senior Fellowship, for two and
a half years from January 1984.
1985
Australian Bicentennial Authority National Literary Award, commissioning
a novel, The Sugar Mother, as part of the 1988 Bicentennial celebrations.
New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, for Milk and Honey.
1986
Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria) Barbara Ramsden Award,
Book of the Year, for The Well.
Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Well.
1988
Canada/Australia Literary Prize, for familiarising Australians and Canadians
with each other's writers (given alternately to Australian and Canadian
writers).
1989
3M Talking Book of the Year Award, for My Father's Moon. Narrated by Mary
Haire.
Age Book of the Year Award, Imaginative Writing Prize, for My Father's Moon.
Age Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year, for My Father's Moon.
1990
The Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria) ANA [Australian
Natives Association] Literature Award, for Cabin Fever.
1991
ASAL [Association for the Study of Australian Literature] Australian Literature
Society Gold Medal, for Cabin Fever and Elizabeth Jolley's contribution
to Australian Literature.
1992
Society of Women Writers (Western Australia) Biennial Alice Award, for
distinguished and long-term contribution to literature.
1993
The Inaugural France-Australia Award for Literary Translation, for the
1992 French edition of The Sugar Mother (Tombé du ciel), shared
with translator Françoise Cartano.
Western Australian Premier's Book Award, Historical and Critical Studies Prize, for Central Mischief: Elizabeth Jolley on Writing, Her Past and Herself.
Western Australian Premier's Book Award, Premier's Prize, for Central Mischief: Elizabeth Jolley on Writing, Her Past and Herself.
Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize, for The Georges' Wife.
Age Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year (shared), for The Georges' Wife.
1994
National Book Council CUB [Carlton United Brewery] Banjo Award, Fiction,
for The Georges' Wife.
1995
Fellowship of Australian Writers (State of Victoria) Australian Unity
[previously the Australian Natives Association] Literature Award, for
The Orchard Thieves.
2000
TDK Australian Audio Book Award, Unabridged Fiction, for An Accommodating
Spouse. Narrated by Julia Blake.
