2025 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2025.

Events

• Text Publishing is acquired by Penguin Random House Australia. ^[1]

Major publications

Crime and mystery

• James Bradley – Landfall ^[2]
• Catherine Jinks – Panic ^[3]
• Dervla McTiernan – The Unquiet Grave ^[4]

Science fiction and Fantasy

• Angela Slatter – The Crimson Road ^[5]

Children's and young adult

• Lili Wilkinson – Unhallowed Halls ^[6]

Non-Fiction

• Robert Dessaix – Chameleon ^[7]
• Brenda Niall – Joan Lindsay ^[8]

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

Award	Author
Patrick White Award	Not yet awarded

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal	Not yet awarded
Colin Roderick Award	Not yet awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [9]	Robbie Arnott	Dusk	Picador
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Not yet awarded
Stella Prize	Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [10]	Wanda Gibson	Three Dresses	University of Queensland Press

Fiction

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
The Age Book of the Year	Not yet awarded
ARA Historical Novel Prize	Not yet awarded
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award	Not yet awarded
Barbara Jefferis Award	Not yet awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction [9]	Robbie Arnott	Dusk	Picador
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction [9]	Lauren Keegan	All the Bees in the Hollows	Affirm Press
Miles Franklin Award	Not yet awarded
Prime Minister's Literary Awards	Not yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Not yet awarded
Queensland Literary Awards	Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [10]	Fiona McFarlane	Highway 13	Allen & Unwin

Children and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
ARA Historical Novel Prize	Children and Young Adult	Not yet awarded
Children's Book of the Year Award	Older Readers	Not yet awarded
	Younger Readers	Not yet awarded
	Picture Book	Not yet awarded
	Early Childhood	Not yet awarded
	Eve Pownall Award for Information Books	Not yet awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [9]	Children's	Katrina Nannestead	All the Beautiful Things	HarperCollins
	Young Adult	Kate Emery	My Family and Other Suspects	Allen and Unwin
Prime Minister's Literary Awards	Children's	Not yet awarded
	Young Adult	Not yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Children's	Not yet awarded
	Young People's	Not yet awarded
Queensland Literary Awards	Children's	Not yet awarded
	Young Adult	Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [10]	Young Adult Fiction	Emma Lord	Anomaly	Affirm Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards	Children's	Not yet awarded

Crime and Mystery

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award	Novel	Not yet awarded
	Young adult novel	Not yet awarded
	Children's novel	Not yet awarded
	Non-fiction	Not yet awarded
	Debut	Not yet awarded
	Readers' choice	Not yet awarded
Ned Kelly Award	Novel	Not yet awarded
	First novel	Not yet awarded
	True crime	Not yet awarded

Non-Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
The Age Book of the Year	Non-Fiction	Not yet awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [9]	Non-Fiction	Markus Zusak	Three Wild Dogs and the Truth	Picador
	Illustrated Non-Fiction	Criss Canning	The Paintings of Criss Canning	Thames and Hudson Australia
National Biography Award	Biography	Not yet awarded
Prime Minister's Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Not yet awarded
	Australian History	Not yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Not yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's History Awards	Australian History	Not yet awarded
	Community and Regional History	Not yet awarded
	General History	Not yet awarded
Queensland Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [10]	Non-Fiction	Susan Hampton	Anything Can Happen	Puncher & Wattman

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Anne Elder Award	Not yet awarded
Mary Gilmore Award	Not yet awarded
Prime Minister's Literary Awards	Not yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Not yet awarded
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection	Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [10]	Jeanine Leane	Gawimarra: Gathering	University of Queensland Press

Drama

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Script	Not yet awarded
	Play	Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [10]		Nathan Maynard	37	Currency Press, with Melbourne Theatre Company

See also

• 2025 in Australia
• 2025 in literature
• 2025 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature

References

1. ""Text Publishing joins Penguin Random House"". Text Publishing. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
2. "Landfall by James Bradley". Penguin Australia. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
3. "Panic by Catherine Jinks". Text Publishing. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
4. "The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan"". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
5. "The Crimson Road by Angela Slatter". ISFDB. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
6. "Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson". .. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
7. "Chameleon by Robert Dessaix". Text Publishing. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
8. "Joan Lindsay by Brenda Nial". Text Publishing. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
9. ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2025"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
10. Story, Hannah (19 March 2025). "Growing up, Wanda got old dresses for Xmas. Her book about it just won $125k". ABC News. Retrieved 19 March 2025.