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This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature.

Major publications

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Literary fiction

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Children's and Young Adult fiction

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Crime and mystery

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Romance

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Poetry

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Drama

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Biographies

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Non-fiction

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Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

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Award Author
Christopher Brennan Award[51] Gig Ryan
Melbourne Prize for Literature[52] Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Patrick White Award[53] Joan London

Literary

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Award Author Title Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[54] Jennifer Maiden Drones and Phantoms Giramondo Publishing
Colin Roderick Award[55] Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56] Don Watson The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia Penguin
Nita Kibble Literary Award[57] Joan London The Golden Age Vintage Books
Stella Prize[58] Emily Bitto The Strays Affirm Press
Victorian Prize for Literature[59] Alan Atkinson The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation NewSouth

Fiction

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National

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[60] Not awarded
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[61] Murray Middleton When There’s Nowhere Else to Run Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[62] Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[56] Sonya Hartnett Golden Boys Penguin
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[56] Maxine Beneba Clarke Foreign Soil Hachette
Miles Franklin Award[63] Sofie Laguna The Eye of the Sheep Allen & Unwin
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[64] Joan London The Golden Age Random House
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[65] Mark Henshaw The Snow Kimono Text Publishing
Queensland Literary Awards[66] Joan London The Golden Age Random House
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[59] Rohan Wilson To Name Those Lost Allen & Unwin
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[67] Not awarded
Voss Literary Prize[68] Elizabeth Harrower In Certain Circles Text Publishing

Children and Young Adult

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National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[69] 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
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56] Children's & YA Judith Rossell Withering-by-Sea Penguin
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

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International

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Award Author Title Publisher
CWA Gold Dagger Award[70] Michael Robotham Life or Death Hachette

National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[71] Novel Liane Moriarty Big Little Lies Penguin Books
Young adult novel Ellie Marney Every Word Allen & Unwin
Children's novel Judith Rossell Withering-By-Sea HarperCollins
True crime Caroline Overington Last Woman Hanged HarperCollins
Debut novel Christine Bongers Intruder Random House
Readers' choice Sandi Wallace Tell Me Why Clan Destine Press
Ned Kelly Award[72] Novel Candice Fox Eden Random House
First novel Jock Serong Quota Text Publishing
True crime Helen Garner This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial Text Publishing
Lifetime achievement Not awarded

Science fiction

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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)

Poetry

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[60] Not awarded
Anne Elder Award[73] Cathy Altmann Circumnavigation Poetica Christi Press
Mary Gilmore Award[74] Not awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[75] David Malouf Earth Hour University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Jill Jones The Beautiful Anxiety Puncher and Wattmann

Drama

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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

Non-Fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[60] Non-Fiction Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[56] Non-Fiction Don Watson The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia Penguin
National Biography Award[76] Biography Philip Butterss An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of C J Dennis Wakefield Press
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

Deaths

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See also

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References

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

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