2025 in Australian literature

• Text Publishing is acquired by Penguin Random House Australia.^[1]

• Randa Abdel-Fattah – Discipline
• Omar Musa – Fierceland
• Josephine Rowe – Little World^[2]

• James Bradley – Landfall^[3]
• Catherine Jinks – Panic^[4]
• Dervla McTiernan – The Unquiet Grave^[5]

• James Islington – The Strength of the Few
• Angela Slatter – The Crimson Road^[6]
• Emma Sloley – The Island of Last Things

• Margot McGovern – This Stays Between Us^[7]
• Zeno Sworder – Once I Was a Giant^[8]
• Lili Wilkinson – Unhallowed Halls^[9]

• Eunice Andrada – KONTRA^[10]
• Evelyn Araluen – The Rot^[11]

• Emilie Collyer – Super^[12]

• Robert Dessaix – Chameleon^[13]
• Brenda Niall – Joan Lindsay^[14]
• Micaela Sahhar – Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family^[15]

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

Award	Author
Patrick White Award	Not yet awarded

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[16]	Fiona McFarlane	Highway 13	Allen & Unwin
Colin Roderick Award[17]	Khin Myint	Fragile Creatures : A Memoir	Black Inc
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[18]	Robbie Arnott	Dusk	Picador
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[19]	Nam Le	36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese Poem	Scribner
Stella Prize[20]	Michelle de Kretser	Theory & Practice	Text Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[21][22]	Wanda Gibson	Three Dresses	University of Queensland Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards – Book of the Year[23]	Alan Fyfe	G-d, Sleep, and Chaos	Gazebo

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
The Age Book of the Year[24]	Rodney Hall	Vortex	Picador
ARA Historical Novel Prize[25]	Robbie Arnott	Dusk	Picador
	Tasma Walton	I Am Nannertgarrook	Bundyi
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[18]	Robbie Arnott	Dusk	Picador
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[18]	Lauren Keegan	All the Bees in the Hollows	Affirm Press
Miles Franklin Award[26]	Siang Lu	Ghost Cities	University of Queensland Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[27]	Michelle de Kretser	Theory & Practice	Text
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[19]	Fiona McFarlane	Highway 13	Allen & Unwin
Queensland Literary Awards[28]	Emily Maguire	Rapture	Allen & Unwin
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[21][22]	Fiona McFarlane	Highway 13	Allen & Unwin
Voss Literary Prize[29]	Fiona McFarlane	Highway 13	Allen & Unwin
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[23]	Louise Wolhuter	Shadows of Winter Robins	Ultimo

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
ARA Historical Novel Prize[25]	Children and Young Adult	Suzanne Leal	The Year We Escaped	HarperCollins
Children's Book of the Year Award[30]	Older Readers	Gary Lonesborough	I'm Not Really Here	Allen and Unwin
	Younger Readers	Maryam Master, illus. by Astred Hicks	Laughter Is the Best Ending	Pan
	Picture Book	Deborah Frenkel, illus. by Danny Snell	The Truck Cat	Bright Light
	Early Childhood	Darren McCallum, illus. by Craig Smith	The Wobbly Bike	Walker
	Eve Pownall Award for Information Books	Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson	Always Was, Always Will Be	Magabala
	New Illustrator	Sarah Capon, written by Bec Nanayakkara	Grow Big, Little Seed	Bright Light
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[18]	Children's	Katrina Nannestad	All the Beautiful Things	HarperCollins
	Young Adult	Kate Emery	My Family and Other Suspects	Allen and Unwin
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[27]	Children's	Peter Carnavas	Leo and Ralph	University of Queensland Press
	Young Adult	Krystal Sutherland	The Invocations	Penguin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[19]	Children's	Katrina Nannestad	All the Beautiful Things	HarperCollins
	Young People's	Emma Lord	Anomaly	Affirm Press
Queensland Literary Awards[28]	Children's	Sandy Bigna	Little Bones	University of Queensland Press
	Young Adult	C. G. Drews	Don't Let the Forest In	Feiwel & Friends
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[21][22]	Young Adult Fiction	Emma Lord	Anomaly	Affirm Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[23]	Children's	Kelly Canby	A Leaf Called Greaf	Fremantle
	Young Adult	Kate Emery	My Family and Other Suspects	Allen & Unwin

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[31]	Novel	Vikki Wakefield	To the River	Text Publishing
	Young adult novel	Erin Gough	Into the Mouth of the Wolf	Hardie Grant Publishing
	Children's novel	Judith Rossell	The Midwatch	Hardie Grant Publishing
	Non-fiction	Lucia Osborne-Crowley	The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell	Allen and Unwin
	Debut	Georgia Harper	What I Would Do to You	Penguin Random House Australia
	Readers' choice	Dervla McTiernan	What Happened to Nina?	HarperCollins Publishers
Ned Kelly Award[32]	Novel	Margaret Hickey	The Creeper	Random House Australia
	First novel	Lisa Kenway	All You Took From Me	Transit Lounge
	True crime	Steve Johnson	A Thousand Miles from Care	HarperCollins Publishers

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
The Age Book of the Year[24]	Non-Fiction	Lech Blaine	Australian Gospel	Black Inc.
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[18]	Non-Fiction	Markus Zusak	Three Wild Dogs and the Truth	Picador
	Illustrated Non-Fiction	Criss Canning	The Paintings of Criss Canning	Thames and Hudson Australia
National Biography Award[33]	Biography	Abbas El-Zein	Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars	Upswell Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[27]	Non-Fiction	Rick Morton	Mean Streak	Fourth Estate
	Australian History	Geraldine Fela	Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia’s AIDS Crisis	UNSW Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[19]	Non-Fiction	James Bradley	Deep Water	Hamish Hamilton
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[34]	Australian History	Darren Rix and Craig Cormick	Warra Warra Wai	Scribner Australia
	Community and Regional History	Alana Piper	Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst corner	NewSouth Publishing
	General History	Robyn Arianrhod	Vector: A surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation	UNSW Press
	Young People's History Prize	Sophie Masson	Our History: Bold Ben Hall	Walker Books
	Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize	Patricia Collins	Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its aftermath	Hachette Australia
Queensland Literary Awards[28]	Non-Fiction	Clare Wright	Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions	Text
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[21][22]	Non-Fiction	Susan Hampton	Anything Can Happen	Puncher & Wattman
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[23]	Non-Fiction	Gerard McCann	Anatomy of a Secret	Fremantle

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Anne Elder Award[35]	Izzy Roberts-Orr	Raw Salt	Vagabond
Mary Gilmore Award[36]	Hasib Hourani	rock flight	Giramondo
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[27]	David Brooks	The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems	University of Queensland Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[19]	Hasib Hourani	rock flight	Giramondo
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[28]	Chris Andrews	The Oblong Plot	Puncher and Wattmann
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[21][22]	Jeanine Leane	Gawimarra: Gathering	University of Queensland Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[23]	Alan Fyfe	G-d, Sleep, and Chaos	Gazebo

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[19]	Script	Charles Williams	Inside	Simpatico Films, Macgowan Films, Never Sleep Pictures
	Play	Glenn Shea	Three Magpies Perched in a Tree	Currency Press, with La Mama Theatre
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[21][22]		Nathan Maynard	37	Currency Press, with Melbourne Theatre Company
Patrick White Playwrights' Award[37]	Award	Karolina Ristevski	River Was Here	Sydney Theatre Company
	Fellowship	Sheridan Harbridge