2015 in Australian literature

• Tony Birch – Ghost River^[1]
• Lisa Birman — How to Walk Away
• Geraldine Brooks – The Secret Chord
• Robyn Cadwallader — The Anchoress
• Stephen Daisley – Coming Rain^[2]
• Gregory Day – Archipelago of Souls^[3]
• Peggy Frew – Hope Farm^[4]
• Lisa Gorton – The Life of Houses
• Sally Hepworth — The Secrets of Midwives
• David Ireland — The World Repair Video Game
• Susan Johnson – The Landing^[5]
• Gail Jones – A Guide to Berlin
• Myfanwy Jones – Leap^[6]
• Mireille Juchau – The World Without Us
• Malcolm Knox – The Wonder Lover^[7]
• Amanda Lohrey – A Short History of Richard Kline^[8]
• Judy Nunn — Spirits of the Ghan
• A. S. Patrić – Black Rock White City
• Gregory David Roberts — The Mountain Shadow
• Steve Toltz – Quicksand^[9]
• Lucy Treloar – Salt Creek^[10]
• Charlotte Wood – The Natural Way of Things

• Nick Earls – New Boy^[11]
• John Flanagan — The Tournament at Gorlan
• Mem Fox – This & That
• Mem Fox – Nellie Belle
• Andy Griffiths – The 65-Storey Treehouse^[12]
• John Larkin — The Pause
• Maureen McCarthy – Stay With Me^[13]
• Sophie Masson – Hunter's Moon^[14]
• Gillian Mears – The Cat with the Coloured Tail^[15]
• Louis Nowra – Prince of Afghanistan^[16]
• Emily Rodda – Two Moons^[17]
• R. A. Spratt — Friday Barnes, Under Suspicion
• Lili Wilkinson – Green Valentine^[18]
• Fiona Wood – Cloudwish^[19]

• Peter Corris – Gun Control
• Garry Disher – The Heat^[20]
• Mark Dapin – R&R^[21]
• Candice Fox – Fall^[22]
• Katherine Howell – Tell the Truth^[23]
• Adrian McKinty – Gun Street Girl^[24]
• Barry Maitland – Ash Island^[25]
• Michael Robotham – Close Your Eyes^[26]
• Emma Viskic – Resurrection Bay
• Dave Warner – Before It Breaks

• K. A. Bedford – Black Light^[27]
• John Birmingham
  • Emergence
  • Resistance^[28]
• Merlinda Bobis – Locust Girl: A Lovesong
• James Bradley – Clade^[29]
• Trudi Canavan — Angel of Storms^[30]
• Isobelle Carmody – The Red Queen^[31]
• Kate Forsyth — The Beast of Blackmoor Bog^[32]
• Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff — Illuminae
• Jane Rawson – Formaldehyde^[33]

• Alison Goodman — The Dark Days Club

• Robert Adamson – Net Needle^[34]
• David Brooks – Open House^[35]
• Brook Emery, with Sarah Holland-Batt eds. — Australian Poetry Anthology, Volume 4.
• Clive James – Sentenced to Life^[36]
• Les Murray – Waiting for the Past^[37]

• Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home^[38]
• Matthew Whittet – Seventeen^[39]

• David Day – Paul Keating : The Biography^[40]
• Peter Garrett – Big Blue Sky : A Memoir^[41]
• Kate Grenville – One Life : My Mother's Story^[42]
• Gerald Murnane – Something for the Pain : A Memoir of the Turf^[43]
• Brenda Niall – Mannix^[44]
• Magda Szubanski – Reckoning : A Memoir^[45]
• Tim Winton – Island Home : A Landscape Memoir^[46]

• Joel Deane – Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power^[47]
• Andrew Fowler – The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom^[48]
• Gideon Haigh – Certain Admissions^[49]
• Lucy Sussex – Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab^[50]

Summarize Top Qs Fact Check

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

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

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

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][66]	Mark Henshaw	The Snow Kimono	Text Publishing
Queensland Literary Awards[67]	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[68]	Not awarded
Voss Literary Prize[69]	Elizabeth Harrower	In Certain Circles	Text Publishing

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[70]	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[66]	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[59]	Young Adult Fiction	Claire Zorn	The Protected	University of Queensland Press

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
CWA Gold Dagger Award[71]	Michael Robotham	Life or Death	Hachette

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[72]	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[73]	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

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)

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[60]	Not awarded
Anne Elder Award[74]	Cathy Altmann	Circumnavigation	Poetica Christi Press
Mary Gilmore Award[75]	Not awarded
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[64]	Geoffrey Lehmann	Poems 1957–2013	UWA Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66]	David Malouf	Earth Hour	University of Queensland Press
Queensland Literary Awards[67]	Les Murray	Waiting for the Past	Black Inc
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[59]	Jill Jones	The Beautiful Anxiety	Puncher and Wattmann
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[68]	Not awarded

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66]	Script	Jennifer Kent	The Babadook	Causeway Films
Patrick White Playwrights' Award[76]	Award	Neil Levi	Kin	Sydney Theatre Company
	Fellowship	Tommy Murphy

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[77]	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[59]	Non-fiction	Alan Atkinson	The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation	Oxford University Press