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BEST BOOK WINNERS

1987 - Olive Senior , '' Summer Lightning ''

1988 - Festus Iyayi , '' Heroes ''

1989 - Janet Frame , '' The Carpathians ''

1990 - Mordecai Richler , '' Solomon Gursky Was Here ''

1991 - David Malouf , '' The Great World ''

1992 - Rohinton Mistry , '' Such A Long Journey ''

1993 - Alex Miller , '' The Ancestor Game ''

1994 - Vikram Seth , '' A Suitable Boy ''

1995 - Louis De Bernières , '' Captain Corelli's Mandolin ''

1996 - Rohinton Mistry , '' A Fine Balance ''

1997 - Earl Lovelace , '' Salt ''

1998 - Peter Carey , '' Jack Maggs ''

1999 - Murray Bail , '' Eucalyptus ''

2000 - John Maxwell Coetzee , '' Disgrace ''

2001 - Peter Carey , '' True History Of The Kelly Gang ''

2002 - Richard Flanagan , '' Gould's Book Of Fish ''

2003 - Austin Clarke , '' The Polished Hoe ''

2004 - Caryl Phillips , '' A Distant Shore ''

2005 - Andrea Levy , '' Small Island ''

2006 - Kate Grenville , '' The Secret River ''

BEST FIRST BOOK WINNERS

1989 - Bonnie Burnard , ''Women of Influence''

1990 - John Cranna , ''Visitors''

1991 - Pauline Melville , ''Shape-Shifter''

1992 - Robert Antoni , ''Divina Trace''

1993 - Gita Hariharan , ''The Thousand Faces of Night''

1994 - Keith Oatley , ''The Case of Emily V''

1995 - Adib Khan , ''Seasonal Adjustments''

1996 - Vikram Chandra , ''Red Earth, Pouring Rain''

1997 - Ann-Marie MacDonald , ''Fall on your Knees''

1998 - Tim Wynveen , ''Angel Falls''

1999 - Kerri Sakamoto , ''The Electrical Field''

2000 - Jeffrey Moore , ''Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain''

2001 - Zadie Smith , ''White Teeth''

2002 - Manu Herbstein , ''Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade''

2003 - Sarah Hall , ''Haweswater''

2004 - Mark Haddon , '' The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time ''

2005 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , ''Purple Hibiscus''

2006 - Mark McWatt , ''Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement''

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