The Dromkeen Medal is a literary prize awarded annually by the Courtney Oldmeadow Children's Literature Foundation for those who have advanced

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. The Medal was established by bookseller, Joyce Oldmeadow in 1982, and is named after the property, Dromkeen Homestead, near Riddell's Creek, Victoria which the Oldmeadow family purchased in 1973, and established as a children's literature museum. The

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has presented the Dromkeen Medal since 2013.

List of medal winners

1980s

1982 Lu Rees AM MBE *1983 Maurice Saxby AM *1984 Patricia Wrightson OBE *1985 Anne Bower Ingram OAM *1986 Albert Ullin OAM *1987

Joan Phipson Joan Margaret Phipson AM (1912–2003) was an Australian children's writer. She lived on a farm in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales and many of her books evoke the stress and satisfaction of living in the Australian countryside, floo ...

AM *1988 Patricia Scott AM *1989

Robert Ingpen Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA (born 13 October 1936) is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal i ...

1990s

*1990

Mem Fox Merrion Frances "Mem" Fox, AM (born Merrion Frances Partridge; 5 March 1946) is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy. Fox has been semi-retired since 1996, but she still gives seminars and ...

AM *1991

Robin Klein Robin McMaugh Klein (born 28 February 1936) is an Australian author of books for children. She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, and now resides near Melbourne. Early life Robin Klein is one of nine children. She had her first ...

*1992 Julie Vivas *1993 Alf Mappin *1994 Agnes Nieuwenhuizen *1995 Jennifer Rowe AC *1996 Belle Alderman AM *1997 Colin Thiele AC *1998

Graeme Base Graeme Rowland Base (born 6 April 1958) is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, '' Animalia'' published in 1986, and third book '' The Eleventh Hour'' which was released in 1989. ...

*1999 Barbara Ker Wilson AM

2000s

*2000 Paul Jennings AM *2001

Julie Watts Julie Watts (born 1950) is an Australian author and publisher. She won the Dromkeen Medal in 2001. Early life Watts was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. Her mother worked in a second-hand bookshop after Julie was born. Career Watts' first ...

*2002

Ann James Ann Catherine Stewart James (born 6 October 1952) is an Australian illustrator of more than 60 children's books, some of which she also wrote. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria. James has been illustrating books since the 1980s and has becom ...

*2003

Ivan Southall Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC (8 June 192115 November 2008) was an Australian writer best known for young adult fiction. He wrote more than 30 children's books, six books for adults, and at least ten works of history, biography or other non-f ...

AM *2004 Margaret Dawn Hamilton AM *2005 Roland Harvey *2006 Walter McVitty AM *2007 Patricia Edgar AM *2008 Ruth Park AM *2009

Bronwyn Bancroft Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Aboriginal Australian artist, and among the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained in Canberra and Sydney, Bancroft worked as a ...

2010s

*2010

Shaun Tan Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...

*2011

Libby Gleeson Libby Gleeson AM (born 1950) is an Australian children's author. Born in Young, New South Wales, she is one of six children, the sister of former ABC TV Washington Correspondent Michael Gleeson, and the mother of ''Home and Away'' actress Je ...

AM *2012 Patricia Mullins *2014 Helen Chamberlin *2015 Andy Griffiths *2016

Alison Lester Alison Jean Lester (born 17 November 1952) is an Australian author and illustrator who has published over 25 children's picture books and two young adult novels; ''The Quickstand Pony'' and ''The Snow Pony''. In 2005 Lester won the Children's ...

AM *2017 Erica Wagner *2018 John Marsden

2020s

Dromkeen Librarian's Award

In 1994 an annual award was created to recognise someone working in an Australian library setting "in recognition of the important role they play in introducing young people to literature and encouraging an enjoyment and love of reading."

1990s

* 1994 Suzette Boyd * 1995 Debra Rosenfeldt * 1996 Bronwen Bennett * 1997 Jill McCallum * 1998 Juliana Bayfield * 1999 Miranda Harrowell

2000s

* 2000 Suzanne Thwaites * 2001 Rita Fellows * 2002 Jenny Stubbs * 2003 Barbara Braxton * 2004 Margaret Catterrall * 2005 Margy Heuschele * 2006 Jennifer Grant * 2007 Jennifer Katauskas * 2008 Ruth Jones * 2009 Pam Macintyre

2010s

* 2010 Suzy Wilson * 2011 Heather Heraud * 2012 Libby Ahern * 2014 Pam Saunders * 2015 Rosario Martinez * 2016 Sarah Steed * 2017 Megan Daley, Junior School Teacher Librarian at

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, Corinda, Queensland *2018 Sue Wootton, Children's Support Officer at Eastern Regional Libraries (ERL)

2020s

References

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Dromkeen Medal at Scholastic Australia to 2011
rchived 1982 establishments in Australia Australian children's literary awards Awards established in 1982

List of medal winners

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Dromkeen Librarian's Award

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

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