2015 in Australian literature

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

Crime

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Poetry

Drama

  • Matthew Whittet, Seventeen

Biographies

Non-fiction

  • Joel DeaneCatch and Kill: The Politics of Power
  • Andrew FowlerThe War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom
  • Gideon HaighCertain Admissions
  • Lucy SussexBlockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab
  • Sam Vincent – Blood & Guts

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

Award Author
Christopher Brennan Award[1] Gig Ryan
Patrick White Award[2] Joan London

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[3] 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

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

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

See also

References

  1. National Literary Awards Results 2015 (PDF). Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria. 2015. p. 15.
  2. ""London wins 2015 Patrick White Literary Award"". Books+Publishing, 29 October 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. "Miles Franklin Literary Award: Sofie Laguna wins for novel The Eye Of The Sheep". ABC News, 23 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. "OBITUARY: Dr Lionel Gilbert OAM 1924-2015". Northern Daily Leader. Fairfax Regional Media. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  5. Fox, Margalit (29 January 2015). "Colleen McCullough, Author of 'The Thorn Birds', Dies at 77". New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  6. "Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  7. "Remembering James Aldridge". Text Publishing. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  8. Gilbert, W. Stephen (1 April 2015). "Alan Seymour obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  9. 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.
  10. "Veronica Brady". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  11. "Nan Hunt". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 2 March 2022.

Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.

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