This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1995.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award [30] | Thomas Shapcott Robert Adamson |
Patrick White Award [31] | Elizabeth Riddell |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year Award [32] | Chris Wallace-Crabbe | Selected Poems 1956–1994 | Oxford University Press |
ALS Gold Medal [33] | Helen Demidenko | The Hand That Signed the Paper | Allen & Unwin |
Colin Roderick Award [34] | Judy Cassab | Diaries | Random House |
Nita Kibble Literary Award [35] | Drusilla Modjeska | The Orchard | Pan Macmillan |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize [36] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Tim Winton | The Riders | Pan Macmillan |
Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Adib Khan | Seasonal Adjustments | Allen & Unwin | |
Best Overall First Novel | Adib Khan | Seasonal Adjustments | Allen & Unwin | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [37] | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year Award [32] | Rod Jones | Billy Sunday | Picador |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [38] | Richard King | Kindling Does for Firewood | Allen and Unwin |
Miles Franklin Award [39] | Helen Demidenko | The Hand That Signed the Paper | Allen and Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [40] | Lily Brett | Just Like That | Pan Macmillan |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [41] | Kate Grenville | Dark Places | Macmillan |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [37] | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year Award [32] | Chris Wallace-Crabbe | Selected Poems 1956–1994 | Oxford University Press |
Anne Elder Award [42] | Jennifer Harrison | Michelangelo's Prisoners | Black Pepper Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [43] | Kevin Hart | New and Selected Poems | Angus and Robertson |
Rhyll McMaster | Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972–1994 | Heinemann | |
Jemal Sharah | Path of Ghosts: Poems 1986–93 | Heinemann | |
Mary Gilmore Award [44] | Aileen Kelly | Coming Up for Light | Pariah Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction [41] | Allan Baillie | Songman | Viking Books |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [37] | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year Award [32] | Tim Flannery | The Future Eaters | New Holland Publishers |
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1995 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.