2016 in Australian literature

• The Mona Brand Award is awarded for the first time.^[1]

• Melissa Ashley – The Birdman's Wife^[2]
• Georgia Blain – Between a Wolf and a Dog
• Don Dennis – The Guns of Muschu
• Hannah Kent – The Good People
• Jennifer Maiden – Play with Knives
• Liane Moriarty – Truly Madly Guilty
• Ryan O'Neill – Their Brilliant Careers
• Heather Rose – The Museum of Modern Love
• Philip Salom – Waiting^[3]
• Graeme Simsion – The Best of Adam Sharp
• Dominic Smith – The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
• Josephine Wilson – Extinctions

• Trace Balla – Rockhopping^[4]
• Maxine Beneba Clarke – The Patchwork Bike
• Georgia Blain – Special^[5]
• John Flanagan – The Battle of Hackham Heath
• Andy Griffiths
  • The Tree House Fun Book^[6]
  • The 78-Storey Treehouse^[7]
• Zana Fraillon – The Bone Sparrow^[8]
• Tania McCartney – Smile/Cry: A Beginner's Book of Feelings^[9]
• Shivaun Plozza – Frankie^[10]
• Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave^[11]
• Claire Zorn – One Would Think the Deep^[12]

• Peter Corris – That Empty Feeling
• Candice Fox and James Patterson – Never Never^[13]
• Jane Harper – The Dry
• Emily Maguire – An Isolated Incident^[14]
• Barry Maitland – Slaughter Park^[15]
• Adrian McKinty – Rain Dogs^[16]
• Matthew Reilly – The Four Legendary Kingdoms
• Jock Serong – The Rules of Backyard Cricket
• David Whish-Wilson – Old Scores^[17]
• Laura Elizabeth Woollett – The Love of a Bad Man

• Alison Croggon – The Bone Queen^[18]
• Jay Kristoff – Nevernight
• Juliet Marillier – Den of Wolves^[19]
• Anthony O'Neill – The Dark Side^[20]
• C. S. Pacat – Kings Rising^[21]
• Lian Hearn – Emperor of the Eight Islands^[22]
• Angela Slatter – Vigil

• Peter Boyle – Ghostspeaking^[23]
• Maxine Beneba Clarke – Carrying the World^[24]
• Brook Emery — Have Been and Are^[25]
• John Kinsella – Drowning in Wheat^[26]
• Berndt Sellheim – Awake at the Wheel^[27]
• Susan Varga – Rupture: Poems 2012–2015^[28]

• Leah Purcell – The Drover's Wife
• David Morton – The Wider Earth

• Deng Thiak Adut with Ben McKelvey – Songs of a War Boy: My Story^[29]
• Julia Baird – Victoria: The Queen^[30]
• Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Boy
• Mark Colvin – Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son^[31]
• Suzanne Falkiner – Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow^[32]
• Stan Grant – Talking to My Country^[33]
• Cory Taylor – Dying: A Memoir^[34]

• Richard Fidler – Ghost Empire
• Peter FitzSimons – Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: Why a French town will never forget the Anzacs^[35]
• Clementine Ford – Fight Like A Girl^[36]
• Helen Garner – Everywhere I Look
• David Hunt – True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2^[37]
• Lynne Kelly – The Memory Code^[38]
• Tara Moss – Speaking Out: A 21st Century Handbook For Women and Girls^[39]

Summarize Top Qs Fact Check

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

Award	Author
Mona Brand Award[1]	Joanna Murray-Smith
Patrick White Award[40]	Carmel Bird

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[41]	Brenda Niall	Mannix	Text Publishing
Colin Roderick Award[42]	Gail Jones	A Guide to Berlin	Random House
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[43]	Charlotte Wood	The Natural Way of Things	Allen & Unwin
Nita Kibble Literary Award[44]	Fiona Wright	Small Acts of Disappearance	Giramondo Publishing
Stella Prize[45]	Charlotte Wood	The Natural Way of Things	Allen & Unwin
Victorian Prize for Literature[46]	Mary Anne Butler	Broken	Currency Press

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[47]	Tamsin Janu	Figgy in the World	Omnibus Books
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[48]	Katherine Brabon	The Memory Artist	Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[49]	Peggy Frew	Hope Farm	Scribe
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[43]	Charlotte Wood	The Natural Way of Things	Allen & Unwin
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[43]	Lucy Treloar	Salt Creek	Macmillan
Miles Franklin Award[50]	A. S. Patrić	Black Rock White City	Transit Lounge
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[51]	Lisa Gorton (joint winner)	The Life of Houses	Giramondo
	Charlotte Wood (joint winner)	The Natural Way of Things	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[52]	Merlinda Bobis	Locust Girl: A Lovesong	Spinifex Press
Queensland Literary Awards[53]	Georgia Blain	Between a Wolf and a Dog	Scribe
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[46]	Mireille Juchau	The World Without Us	Bloomsbury Publishing
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[54]	Joan London	The Golden Age	Vintage Books
Voss Literary Prize[55]	Leah Kaminsky	The Waiting Room	Random House

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[56]	Older Readers	Fiona Wood	Cloudwish	Macmillan Australia
	Younger Readers	Morris Gleitzman	Soon	Viking Books
	Picture Book	Nadia Wheatley, text Armin Greder, illus.	Flight	Windy Hollow Books
	Early Childhood	Anna Walker	Mr Huff	Penguin Random House
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[43]	Children's	Aaron Blabey	The Bad Guys: Episode 1	Scholastic Australia
	Young Adult	Fiona Wood	Cloudwish	Pan MacMillan
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Children's	Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley	Teacup	Scholastic Australia
	Young People's	Alice Pung	Laurinda	Black Inc.
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[46]	Young Adult Fiction	Marlee Jane Ward	Welcome to Orphancorp	Xou Pty Ltd

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[57]	Novel	Emma Viskic	Resurrection Bay	Echo Publishing
	Young adult novel	Fleur Ferris	Risk	Random House
	Children's novel	R. A Spratt	Friday Barnes, Under Suspicion	Random House
	True crime	Alecia Simmonds	Wild Man	Affirm Press
	Debut novel	Emma Viskic	Resurrection Bay	Echo Publishing
		Fleur Ferris	Risk	Random House
	Readers' choice	Emma Viskic	Resurrection Bay	Echo Publishing
Ned Kelly Award[57]	Novel	Dave Warner	Before It Breaks	Fremantle Press
	First novel	Emma Viskic	Resurrection Bay	Echo Publishing
	True crime	Gideon Haigh	Certain Admissions	Penguin
	Lifetime achievement	Not awarded

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Aurealis Award	Sf Novel	Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff	Gemima: The Illuminae Files 2	Allen & Unwin
	Sf Short Story	Samantha Murray	"Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart"	Clarkesworld 122
	Fantasy Novel	Jay Kristoff	Nevernight	Harper Voyager
	Fantasy Short Story	Thoraiya Dyer	"Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest"	In Your Face (FableCroft Publishing)
	Horror Novel	Kaaron Warren	The Grief Hole	IFWG Publishing Australia
	Horror Short Story	TR Napper	"Flame Trees"	Asimov’s Science Fiction
	Young Adult Novel	Alison Goodman	Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact	HarperCollins Publishers
	Young Adult Short Story	Leife Shallcross	"Pretty Jennie Greenteeth"	Strange Little Girls (Belladonna Publishing)
Ditmar Award	Novel	Lisa L. Hannett	Lament for the Afterlife	ChiZine Publications
	Best Novella or Novelette	Sean Williams	"Of Sorrow and Such"	Of Sorrow and Such (Tor.com)
	Best Short Story	Kathleen Jennings	"A Hedge of Yellow Roses"	Hear Me Roar (Ticonderoga Publications)

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[47]	Les Murray	Waiting for the Past	Black Inc Press
Anne Elder Award[58]	John Hawke	Aurelia	Cordite Books
Mary Gilmore Award[59]	Benedict Andrews	Lens Flare	Pitt Street Poetry
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[51]	Sarah Holland-Batt	The Hazards	University of Queensland Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[60]	Joanne Burns	brush	Giramondo Publishing
Queensland Literary Awards[53]	David Musgrave	Anatomy of Voice	GloriaSMH
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[46]	Alan Loney	Crankhandle	Cordite Books
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[54]	Lucy Dougan	The Guardians	Giramondo Publishing

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[60]	Script	Cate Shortland	Deadline Gallipoli, Episode 4: "The Letter"	Matchbox Pictures & Full Clip Productions
Patrick White Playwrights' Award[61]	Award	Lewis Treston	Hot Tub	Sydney Theatre Company
	Fellowship	Andrew Bovell

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[47]	Non-Fiction	Robert Dessaix	What Days Are For	Random House Australia
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[43]	Non-Fiction	Magda Szubanski	Reckoning: A Memoir	Text Publishing
National Biography Award[62]	Biography	Brenda Niall	Mannix	Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[60]	Non-Fiction	Magda Szubanski	Reckoning: A Memoir	Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards	Australian History	Stuart Macintyre	Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s	NewSouth Books
	Community and Regional History	Tanya Evans	Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales	University of New South Wales Press
	General History	Ann McGrath	Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia	Nebraska University Press
Queensland Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Fiona Wright	Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger	Giramondo
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[46]	Non-fiction	Gerald Murnane	Something for the Pain	Text Publishing