Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award
(Years link to corresponding " in literature".)
- 2012: Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
- 2011: Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
- 2010: Lovesong by Alex Miller
- 2009: Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
- 2008: Breath by Tim Winton
- 2007: Every Move You Make by David Malouf
- 2006: Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
- 2005: Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
- 2004: The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
- 2003: Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
- 2002: Gilgamesh by Joan London
- 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- 2000: Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop by Amy Witting
- 1999: The Deep Field by James Bradley
- 1998: Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman
- 1997: Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
- 1996: The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
- 1995: Billy Sunday by Rod Jones
- 1994: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
- 1993: The George's Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
- 1992: Lover's Knots by Marion Halligan
- 1991: Double Wolf by Brian Castro
- 1990: Longleg by Glenda Adams
- 1989: My Father's Moon by Elizabeth Jolley
- 1988: Forty Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse
- 1987: Stories from the Warm Zone by Jessica Anderson
- 1986: Sister Ships by Joan London
- 1985: Illywhacker by Peter Carey
- 1984: The Bellarmine Jug by Nicholas Hasluck
- 1983: Mr Scobie's Riddle by Elizabeth Jolley
- 1982: Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
- 1981: Turtle Beach by Blanche d'Alpuget
- 1980: Joint winners
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- A Woman of the Future by David Ireland
- Homesickness by Murray Bail
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- 1979: 1915 by Roger McDonald
- 1978: The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
- 1976: A Late Picking by A. D. Hope
- 1975: A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley
- 1974: The Pure Land by David Foster
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