Children's Peace Literature Award

Children's Peace Literature Award is an Australian literary prize awarded every other year by the South Australian Psychologists for Peace, an interest group of the Australian Psychological Society.^[1]

The Children's Peace Literature Award was inaugurated in 1987, when Gillian Rubinstein won for her book Space Demons.^[1]

Award winners

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	References
1987	Gillian Rubinstein	Space Demons	Omnibus Books	[1][2]
1989	Victor Kelleher	The Makers	Puffin	[2]
1991	Libby Gleeson	Dodger	Puffin	[2]
1993	Isobelle Carmody	The Gathering	Puffin	joint winners[2][3]
	Bob Graham	Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten	Penguin Books
1995	Brian Caswell	Deucalion	University of Queensland Press	[2]
1997	James Moloney	A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove	University of Queensland Press	[2]
1999	Phillip Gwynne	Deadly Unna	Penguin Books	[2]
2001	James Moloney	Touch Me	University of Queensland Press	[2]
2003	Irini Savvides	Sky Legs	Hodder Headline Australia	[2]
2005	Kirsten Murphy	The King of Whatever	Penguin Books	[2]
2007	Michael Gerard Bauer	Don't Call Me Ishmael	Omnibus	[2]
2009	Christine Harris	Audrey Goes to Town	Little Hare Books	joint winners[2]
	Kate Constable	Winter for Grace	Allen & Unwin
2011	Sue Walker	Arnie Avery	Walker Books	[2][4]
2013	Aaron Blabey	The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon	Penguin	junior readers[2][5]
	Barry Jonsberg	My Life as an Alphabet	Allen & Unwin	older readers[2][5]
2015	Nicole Hayes	One True Thing	Random House Australia	[2][6]
2017	Phil Cummings	Boy	Scholastic Australia	[2][7]
2019	Sue deGennaro	Missing Marvin	Scholastic Australia	[2][8]
2021	Fiona Hardy	How to Write the Soundtrack to Your Life	Affirm	[9]

References

1. "Psychologists for Peace Interest Group Children's Peace Literature Award | APS". www.psychology.org.au. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
2. "Children's Peace Literature Award". AustLit. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
3. "New talent in town: Isobelle Carmody | UNSW Canberra". www.unsw.adfa.edu.au. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
4. "Sue Walker - Authors & Illustrators - Welcome to Walker Books Australia". www.walkerbooks.com.au. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
5. "Children's Peace Literature Award 2013 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 January 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
6. "One True Thing by Nicole Hayes". www.penguin.co.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
7. "'Boy' wins 2017 Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
8. "'Missing Marvin' wins Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 12 November 2019. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
9. "Hardy wins 2021 Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

External links

• Official website