2015 in Australian literature
This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Tony Birch – Ghost River
- Geraldine Brooks – The Secret Chord
- Stephen Daisley – Coming Rain
- Gregory Day – Archipelago of Souls
- Peggy Frew – Hope Farm
- Susan Johnson – The Landing
- Gail Jones – A Guide to Berlin
- Myfanwy Jones – Leap
- Mireille Juchau – The World Without Us
- Malcolm Knox – The Wonder Lover
- Amanda Lohrey – A Short History of Richard Kline
- A. S. Patrić – Black Rock White City
- Steve Toltz – Quicksand
- Lucy Treloar – Salt Creek
- Charlotte Wood – The Natural Way of Things
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Nick Earls – New Boy
- 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 |
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 |
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
- 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]
References
- Northern Daily Leader (14 February 2015). "OBITUARY: Dr Lionel Gilbert OAM 1924-2015" (Newspaper obituary). Fairfax Regional Media. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- Fox, Margalit (29 January 2015). "Colleen McCullough, Author of 'The Thorn Birds', Dies at 77". New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- "Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96". Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- "Remembering James Aldridge". Text Publishing. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- Marc McEvoy, obituary: "The one day of the year became a defining moment in writer's life". The Age, 30 March 2015, p. 34
- 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.
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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