2015 in Australian literature

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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[]

Award Author
Patrick White Award Joan London

Fiction[]

National[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Murray Middleton When There’s Nowhere Else to Run Allen & Unwin
Miles Franklin Award Sofie Laguna The Eye of the Sheep Allen & Unwin
Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction Joan London The Golden Age Random House
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Fiction Mark Henshaw The Snow Kimono Text Publishing
Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Joan London The Golden Age Random House
Stella Prize Emily Bitto The Strays Affirm Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Fiction Rohan Wilson To Name Those Lost Allen & Unwin

Children and Young Adult[]

National[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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

Crime and Mystery[]

International[]

Award Author Title Publisher
CWA Gold Dagger Award Michael Robotham Life or Death Hachette

National[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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

Science Fiction[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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)

Non-Fiction[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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

Poetry[]

Award Author Title Publisher
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

Drama[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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

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[]

  1. ^ "OBITUARY: Dr Lionel Gilbert OAM 1924-2015". Northern Daily Leader. Fairfax Regional Media. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. ^ Fox, Margalit (29 January 2015). "Colleen McCullough, Author of 'The Thorn Birds', Dies at 77". New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96". Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Remembering James Aldridge". Text Publishing. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  5. ^ Marc McEvoy, obituary: "The one day of the year became a defining moment in writer's life". The Age, 30 March 2015, p. 34
  6. ^ Stasko, Nicolette (4 June 2015). "JS Harry, the virtuoso poet who took her curious rabbit on world discovery tour". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 January 2020.

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