This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award[2] | Gig Ryan |
Melbourne Prize for Literature[3] | Chris Wallace-Crabbe |
Patrick White Award[4] | Joan London |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[5] | Jennifer Maiden | Drones and Phantoms | Giramondo Publishing |
Stella Prize[6] | Emily Bitto | The Strays | Affirm Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[7] | Murray Middleton | When There’s Nowhere Else to Run | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award[8] | Not awarded | ||
Miles Franklin Award[9] | Sofie Laguna | The Eye of the Sheep | Allen & Unwin |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[10] | Joan London | The Golden Age | Random House |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[11] | Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono | Text Publishing |
Queensland Literary Awards[12] | Joan London | The Golden Age | Random House |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Rohan Wilson | To Name Those Lost | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Claire Zorn | The Protected | University of Queensland Press |
Younger Readers | Libby Gleeson | The Cleo Stories : The Necklace and the Present | Allen & Unwin | |
Picture Book | Freya Blackwood, text Irema Kobald | My Two Blankets | Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont | |
Early Childhood | Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood | Go to Sleep, Jessie! | Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Catherine Norton | Crossing | Omnibus/Scholastic Australia |
Tamsin Janu | Figgy in the World | Omnibus/Scholastic Australia | ||
Young People's | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Cracks in the Kingdom | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | Claire Zorn | The Protected | University of Queensland Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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CWA Gold Dagger Award[13] | Michael Robotham | Life or Death | Hachette |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award | Novel | Liane Moriarty | Big Little Lies | Penguin Books |
Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Candice Fox | Eden | Random House |
First novel | Jack Sarong | Quota | Text Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff | Illuminae | Allen & Unwin |
Sf Short Story | Sean Williams | "All the Wrong Places" | Meeting Infinity (Solaris Books) | |
Fantasy Novel | Trent Jamieson | Day Boy | Text Publishing | |
Fantasy Short Story | Rowena Cory Daniels | "The Giant's Lady" | Legends 2 (Newcon Press) | |
Horror Novel | Trent Jamieson | Day Boy | Text Publishing | |
Horror Short Story | Joanne Anderton | "Bullets" | In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep (AHWA) | |
Young Adult Novel | Kathryn Barker | In the Skin of a Monster | Allen & Unwin | |
Young Adult Short Story | Deborah Kalin | "The Miseducation of Mara Lys" | Cherry Crow Children (Twelfth Planet Press) | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Glenda Larke | The Lascar's Dagger | Hachette |
Best Novella or Novelette | Sean Williams | "The Legend Trap" | Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press) | |
Best Short Story | Cat Sparks | "The Seventh Relic" | Phantazein (FableCroft Publishing) |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Don Watson | The Bush : Travels in the Heart of Australia | Penguin |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Alan Atkinson | The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation | Oxford University Press |
Community and Regional History | Babette Smith | The Luck of the Irish : How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in Australia | Allen & Unwin | |
General History | Warwick Anderson & Ian R Mackay | Intolerant Bodies : A Short History of Autoimmunity | Johns Hopkins University Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Don Watson | The Bush : Travels in the Heart of Australia | Penguin |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Alan Atkinson | The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation | Oxford University Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | David Malouf | Earth Hour | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Jill Jones | The Beautiful Anxiety | Puncher and Wattmann |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Script | Jennifer Kent | The Babadook | Causeway Films |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Neil Levi | Kin | Sydney Theatre Company |
Fellowship | Tommy Murphy |