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2015 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2015 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- 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
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- 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]
Crime and mystery
- 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
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- K. A. Bedford – Black Light[27]
- John Birmingham
- 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]
Romance
Poetry
- Robert Adamson – Net Needle[34]
- David Brooks – Open House[35]
- Clive James – Sentenced to Life[36]
- Les Murray – Waiting for the Past[37]
Drama
- Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home[38]
- Matthew Whittet – Seventeen[39]
Biographies
- 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]
Non-fiction
- 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]
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Awards and honours
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Deaths
- 28 January — Lionel Gilbert, historian, author, and academic, (born 1924)[77]
- 29 January — Colleen McCullough, novelist (born 1937)[78]
- 13 February — Faith Bandler, author and civil rights activist (born 1918)[79]
- 23 February — James Aldridge, novelist (born 1918)[80]
- 20 March — Malcolm Fraser, politician and author (born 1930)[81]
- 23 March — Alan Seymour, playwright (born 1927)[82]
- 20 May — J. S. Harry, poet (born 1939)[83]
- 29 May — Syd Harrex, poet and academic (born 1935)[84]
- 20 August — Veronica Brady, poet and critic (born 1929)[85]
- 4 October — Nan Hunt, children's writer who also wrote as N. L. Ray (born 1918)[86]
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