The winners of the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced.
Robbie Arnott won the fiction award for Limberlost (Text) and Kim Mahood won the nonfiction prize for Wandering with Intent (Scribe). Announced at last night’s Melbourne Writers Festival opening gala, the winners each receive $10,000 courtesy of the Copyright Agency.
The judges praised Arnott’s skill in describing the Tasmanian landscape and his ‘sturdy writing about humble, decent people. This is the work of an author sufficiently confident in his powers that he tailors his style to the story. In so doing he has produced a gem sure to give readers joy for years to come’. Arnott won the same award two years ago for his novel The Rain Heron (Text).
Photograph of Robbie Arnott by Peter Mathew.