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Ned Kelly Awards

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Country
  
Australia

First awarded
  
1996

Awarded for
  
Excellence in Australian Crime fiction & true crime

Presented by
  
Crime Writers Association of Australia

Official website
  
http://www.nedkellyawards.com

The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia.

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The genre of crime writing has long been popular, but it wasn't until the early 1990s that a local growth of writing within the genre occurred in Australia. By the middle of the decade support for the field had grown sufficiently that it was decided to establish the Ned Kelly Awards.

The awards are affectionately referred to as 'The Neddies' within the community.

Categories

  • Best First Novel
  • Best True Crime
  • Best Novel
  • Best Teenage/Young Adult
  • Readers Vote
  • Best Non-Fiction
  • Lifetime Achievement Awards

    • Shortlists

    2016

    Best Crime Novel

  • Mark Dapin, R&R
  • Garry Disher, The Heat
  • Candice Fox, Fall
  • Adrian McKinty, Rain Dogs
  • Barry Maitland, Ash Island
  • Dave Warner, Before It Breaks

    • Best First Crime Novel

  • Tania Chandler, Please Don't Leave Me Here
  • J. M. Green, Good Money
  • Mark Hollands, Amplify
  • Gary Kemble, Skin Deep
  • Iain Ryan, Four Days
  • Emma Viskic, Resurrection Bay

    • Best True Crime

  • Gideon Haigh, Certain Admissions
  • Kate Kyriacou, The Sting
  • Martin Mckenzie-Murray, A Murder Without Motive
  • Rebecca Poulson, Killing love
  • Mark Tedeschi, Kidnapped
    • 2015

    Best Crime Novel

  • Peter Docker, Sweet One
  • Candice Fox, Eden
  • Sulari Gentill, A Murder Unmentioned
  • Barry Maitland, Crucifixion Creek
  • Adrian McKinty, Gun Street Girl
  • Malla Nunn, Present Darkness

    • Best First Crime Novel

  • Nigel Bartlett, King of the Road
  • Anna George, What Came Before
  • Nicholas J Johnson, Chasing the Ace
  • Jock Serong, Quota

    • Best True Crime

  • Amy Dale, The Fall
  • Helen Garner, This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
  • Debi Marshall, The Family Court Murders
  • Kate McClymont and Linton Besser, He Who Must Be Obeid
  • David Murray, The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
  • Liam Pieper, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year
    • 2014

    Best Crime Novel

  • Garry Disher, Bitter Wash Road
  • Kathryn Fox, Fatal Impact
  • Adrian McKinty, In The Morning I'll Be Gone
  • PM Newton, Beams Falling
  • Stephen Orr, One Boy Missing
  • Angela Savage, The Dying Beach

    • Best First Crime Novel

  • Peter Cotton, Dead Cat Bounce
  • Candice Fox, Hades
  • Alex Hammond, Blood Witness
  • Ellie Marney, Every Breath

    • Best True Crime

  • Paul Dale, Disgraced?
  • John Kidman & Denise Hofman, Forever Nine
  • Eleanor Learmonth & Jenny Tabakoff, No Mercy
  • Colin McLaren, JFK: The Smoking Gun
  • Duncan McNab, Outlaw Bikers in Australia
  • John Safran, Murder in Mississippi
    • 2013

    Best Crime Novel

  • Robert Gott, The Holiday Murders
  • Katherine Howell, Web of Deceit
  • Geoffrey McGeachin, Blackwattle Creek
  • Adrian McKinty, I Hear The Sirens In The Street
  • Malla Nunn, Silent Valley

    • Best First Crime Novel

  • Paul Anderson, The Robbers
  • Andrew Grimes, The Richmond Conspiracy
  • Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann, The Marmalade Files
  • Zane Lovitt, The Midnight Promise
  • Sue Williams, Murder With The Lot

    • Best True Crime

  • Robin de Crespigny, The People Smuggler
  • Belinda Hawkins, Every Parent's Nightmare
  • Steve Lillebuen, The Devil's Cinema
  • Derek Pedley, Dead by Friday
  • Mark Tedeschi QC, Eugenia
    • 2012

    Best Crime Novel

  • J. C. Burke, Pig Boy
  • Malcolm Knox, The Life
  • Barry Maitland, Chelsea Mansions

    • Best First Crime Novel

  • Claire Corbett, When We Have Wings
  • Peter Twohig, The Cartographer
  • Kim Westwood, The Courier's New Bicycle

    • Best True Crime

  • Eamonn Duff, Sins of the Father
  • Michael Duffy, Call Me Cruel
  • Liz Porter, Cold Case File
    • 2011

    Best Crime Novel

  • Angela Savage, The Half-Child
  • Geoffrey McGeachin, The Diggers Rest Hotel
  • Chris Womersley, Bereft

    • Best First Crime Novel

  • Alan Carter, Prime Cut
  • David Whish-Wilson, Line of Sight
  • P.M. Newton, The Old School

    • Best True Crime

  • Geesche Jacobson, Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble
  • Ross Honeywill, Wasted
  • Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke, Honeymoon Dive
    • 2010

    Best Crime Novel

  • Lenny Bartulin, The Black Russian
  • Michael Robotham, Bleed For Me
  • Garry Disher, Wyatt

    • Best First Crime Novel

  • Andrew Coome, Document Z
  • Mark Dapin, King of the Cross
  • Robin Adair, Death and the Running Patterer

    • Best True Crime

  • Peter Doyle, Crooks like Us
  • Kathy Marks, Pitcairn: Paradise Lost
  • Robert M. Kaplan, Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill

    • References

    Ned Kelly Awards Wikipedia
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