This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature.
Major publications[]
Literary fiction[]
Children's and Young Adult fiction[]
- Nick Earls – New Boy
- Mem Fox – This & That
- Mem Fox – Nellie Belle
- Andy Griffiths – The 65-Storey Treehouse
- Maureen McCarthy – Stay With Me
- Sophie Masson – Hunter's Moon
- Gillian Mears – The Cat with the Coloured Tail
- Louis Nowra – Prince of Afghanistan
- Emily Rodda – Two Moons
- Lili Wilkinson – Green Valentine
- Fiona Wood – Cloudwish
Crime[]
- Peter Corris – Gun Control
- Garry Disher – The Heat
- Mark Dapin – R&R
- Candice Fox – Fall
- Katherine Howell – Tell the Truth
- Adrian McKinty – Gun Street Girl
- Barry Maitland – Ash Island
- Michael Robotham – Close Your Eyes
- Emma Viskic – Resurrection Bay
- Dave Warner – Before It Breaks
Science Fiction and Fantasy[]
- K. A. Bedford – Black Light
- John Birmingham – Resistance
- James Bradley – Clade
- Trudi Canavan — Angel of Storms
- Isobelle Carmody – The Red Queen
- Kate Forsyth — The Beast's Garden
- Jane Rawson – Formaldehyde
Poetry[]
- Robert Adamson – Net Needle
- David Brooks – Open House
- Clive James – Sentenced to Life
- Les Murray – Waiting for the Past
Drama[]
- Matthew Whittet, Seventeen
Biographies[]
- David Day – Paul Keating : The Biography
- Peter Garrett – Big Blue Sky : A Memoir
- Kate Grenville – One Life : My Mother's Story
- Gerald Murnane – Something for the Pain : A Memoir of the Turf
- Brenda Niall – Mannix
- Magda Szubanski – Reckoning : A Memoir
- Tim Winton – Island Home : A Landscape Memoir
Non-fiction[]
- Gideon Haigh – Certain Admissions
- Lucy Sussex – Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab
Awards and honours[]
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement[]
Fiction[]
National[]
Children and Young Adult[]
National[]
Crime and Mystery[]
International[]
Award
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Author
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Title
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Publisher
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CWA Gold Dagger Award
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Michael Robotham
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Life or Death
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Hachette
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National[]
Science Fiction[]
Award
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Category
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Author
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Title
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Publisher
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Aurealis Award
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Sf Novel
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Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
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Illuminae
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Allen & Unwin
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Sf Short Story
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Sean Williams
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"All the Wrong Places"
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Meeting Infinity (Solaris Books)
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Fantasy Novel
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Trent Jamieson
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Day Boy
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Text Publishing
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Fantasy Short Story
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Rowena Cory Daniels
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"The Giant's Lady"
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Legends 2 (Newcon Press)
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Horror Novel
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Trent Jamieson
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Day Boy
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Text Publishing
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Horror Short Story
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Joanne Anderton
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"Bullets"
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In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep (AHWA)
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Young Adult Novel
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Kathryn Barker
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In the Skin of a Monster
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Allen & Unwin
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Young Adult Short Story
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Deborah Kalin
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"The Miseducation of Mara Lys"
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Cherry Crow Children (Twelfth Planet Press)
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Ditmar Award
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Novel
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Glenda Larke
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The Lascar's Dagger
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Hachette
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Best Novella or Novelette
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Sean Williams
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"The Legend Trap"
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Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press)
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Best Short Story
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Cat Sparks
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"The Seventh Relic"
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Phantazein (FableCroft Publishing)
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Non-Fiction[]
Award
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Category
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Author
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Title
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Publisher
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
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Non-Fiction
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Don Watson
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The Bush : Travels in the Heart of Australia
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Penguin
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New South Wales Premier's History Awards
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Australian History
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Alan Atkinson
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The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation
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Oxford University Press
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Community and Regional History
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Babette Smith
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The Luck of the Irish : How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in Australia
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Allen & Unwin
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General History
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Warwick Anderson & Ian R Mackay
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Intolerant Bodies : A Short History of Autoimmunity
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Queensland Literary Awards
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Non-Fiction
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Don Watson
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The Bush : Travels in the Heart of Australia
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Penguin
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Victorian Premier's Literary Award
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Non-fiction
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Alan Atkinson
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The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation
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Oxford University Press
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Poetry[]
Drama[]
Deaths[]
- 28 January – Lionel Gilbert, 90, historian, author, and academic, (born 1924)[1]
- 29 January — Colleen McCullough, 77, novelist (born 1937)[2]
- 13 February — Faith Bandler, 96, author and civil rights activist (born 1918)[3]
- 23 February — James Aldridge, 96, novelist (born 1918)[4]
- 24 March – Alan Seymour, 87, playwright (born 1927)[5]
- 20 May – J. S. Harry, poet, 76 (born 1939)[6]
See also[]
References[]
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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