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2015 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2015.

Contents

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
  • 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

    • Biographies

  • David Day – Paul Keating : The Biography
  • Peter Garrett – Big Blue Sky : A Memoir
  • Kate Grenville – One Life : My Mother's Story
  • 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

  • Gideon Haigh – Certain Admissions
  • Lucy Sussex – Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab

    • Awards and honours

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

    Deaths

  • 29 January — Colleen McCullough, novelist (born 1937)
  • 24 February — James Aldridge, novelist (born 1918)
  • 24 March – Alan Seymour, playwright (born 1927)
  • 20 May – J. S. Harry, poet (born 1939)

    • References

    2015 in Australian literature Wikipedia
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