Voss Literary Prize

The Voss Literary Prize is an annual award named in honour of historian Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss (1930–1963). It is awarded to the best novel published in the previous year and is managed and judged by the Australian University Heads of English.^[1] The award was originally conceived by Voss in 1955, two years before publication of Patrick White's Voss, and is funded from his estate.^[2]

Award winners

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	References
2014	Fiona McFarlane	The Night Guest	Penguin Group (Australia)	[3]
2015	Elizabeth Harrower	In Certain Circles	Text Publishing	[4]
2016	Leah Kaminsky	The Waiting Room	Random House	[5]
2017	Mark O'Flynn	The Last Days of Ava Langdon	University of Queensland Press	[6]
2018	Bram Presser	The Book of Dirt	Text Publishing	[7]
2019	Tim Winton	The Shepherd's Hut	Hamish Hamilton	[8]
2020	Tara June Winch	The Yield	Hamish Hamilton	[9]
2021	Amanda Lohrey	The Labyrinth	Text Publishing	[10]
2022	Larissa Behrendt	After Story	University of Queensland Press	[11]
2023	Robbie Arnott	Limberlost	Text Publishing	[12]
2024	Alexis Wright	Praiseworthy	Giramondo	[13]