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
Mem Fox – This & That
Mem Fox – Nellie Belle
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
Erik Jensen – Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen
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

Joel Deane – Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power
Andrew Fowler – The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom
Gideon Haigh – Certain Admissions
Lucy Sussex – Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab
Sam Vincent – Blood & Guts

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

Award	Author
Christopher Brennan Award[1]	Gig Ryan
Patrick White Award[2]	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[3]		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
	Children's	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
Ned Kelly Award	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
Patrick White Playwrights' Award	Fellowship	Tommy Murphy

Deaths

28 January – Lionel Gilbert, historian, author, and academic, (born 1924)[4]
29 January — Colleen McCullough, novelist (born 1937)[5]
13 February — Faith Bandler, author and civil rights activist (born 1918)[6]
23 February — James Aldridge, novelist (born 1918)[7]
23 March – Alan Seymour, playwright (born 1927)[8]
20 May – J. S. Harry, poet (born 1939)[9]
20 August – Veronica Brady, poet and critic (born 1929)[10]
4 October — Nan Hunt, children's writer who also wrote as N. L. Ray (born 1918)[11]

References

National Literary Awards Results 2015 (PDF). Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria. 2015. p. 15.
""London wins 2015 Patrick White Literary Award"". Books+Publishing, 29 October 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
"Miles Franklin Literary Award: Sofie Laguna wins for novel The Eye Of The Sheep". ABC News, 23 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
"OBITUARY: Dr Lionel Gilbert OAM 1924-2015". Northern Daily Leader. Fairfax Regional Media. 14 February 2015. 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". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
"Remembering James Aldridge". Text Publishing. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
Gilbert, W. Stephen (1 April 2015). "Alan Seymour obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
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.
"Veronica Brady". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
"Nan Hunt". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 2 March 2022.

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[CB2015-1] National Literary Awards Results 2015 (PDF). Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria. 2015. p. 15.

[PW2015-2] ""London wins 2015 Patrick White Literary Award"". Books+Publishing, 29 October 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

[3] "Miles Franklin Literary Award: Sofie Laguna wins for novel The Eye Of The Sheep". ABC News, 23 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.

[NDL-4] "OBITUARY: Dr Lionel Gilbert OAM 1924-2015". Northern Daily Leader. Fairfax Regional Media. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.

[5] Fox, Margalit (29 January 2015). "Colleen McCullough, Author of 'The Thorn Birds', Dies at 77". New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2015.

[6] "Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

[7] "Remembering James Aldridge". Text Publishing. Retrieved 9 January 2020.

[8] Gilbert, W. Stephen (1 April 2015). "Alan Seymour obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 October 2023.

[9] 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.

[10] "Veronica Brady". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 18 October 2023.

[:0-11] "Nan Hunt". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 2 March 2022.

Years in Australian literature (1855–present)
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2015 in Australian literature

Major publications

Literary fiction

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Crime

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Poetry

Drama

Biographies

Non-fiction

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

National

National

International

National

Science fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

See also

References