2025 in Australian literature

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

Contents

Events

Major publications

Crime and mystery

Science fiction and Fantasy

Children's and young adult

Non-Fiction

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

AwardAuthor
Patrick White Award Not yet awarded

Literary

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
ALS Gold Medal [9] Fiona McFarlane Highway 13 Allen & Unwin
Colin Roderick Award Not yet awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [10] Robbie Arnott Dusk Picador
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [11] Nam Le 36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese PoemScribner
Stella Prize [12] Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice Text Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [13] [14] Wanda GibsonThree DressesUniversity of Queensland Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Not yet awarded

Fiction

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
The Age Book of the Year [15] Rodney Hall Vortex Picador
ARA Historical Novel Prize Not yet awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction [10] Robbie Arnott Dusk Picador
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction [10] Lauren KeeganAll the Bees in the Hollows Affirm Press
Miles Franklin Award [16] Siang Lu Ghost Cities University of Queensland Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards Not yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [11] Fiona McFarlane Highway 13
Queensland Literary Awards Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [13] [14] Fiona McFarlane Highway 13 Allen & Unwin
Voss Literary Prize Not yet awarded
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Not yet awarded

Children and Young Adult

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
ARA Historical Novel Prize Children and Young AdultNot yet awarded
Children's Book of the Year Award [17] Older Readers Gary LonesboroughI'm Not Really Here Allen and Unwin
Younger Readers Maryam Master, illus. by Astred HicksLaughter Is the Best EndingPan
Picture Book Deborah Frenkel, illus. by Danny SnellThe Truck CatBright Light
Early Childhood Darren McCallum, illus. by Craig SmithThe Wobbly BikeWalker
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Aunty Fay Muir and Sue LawsonAlways Was, Always Will Be Magabala
New Illustrator Sarah Capon, written by Bec NanayakkaraGrow Big, Little SeedBright Light
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [10] Children's Katrina Nannestad All the Beautiful Things HarperCollins
Young Adult Kate EmeryMy Family and Other Suspects Allen and Unwin
Prime Minister's Literary Awards Children'sNot yet awarded
Young AdultNot yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [11] Children's Katrina Nannestad All the Beautiful Things HarperCollins
Young People'sEmma LordAnomaly Affirm Press
Queensland Literary Awards Children'sNot yet awarded
Young AdultNot yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [13] [14] Young Adult FictionEmma LordAnomaly Affirm Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Children'sNot yet awarded
Young AdultNot yet awarded

Crime and Mystery

National

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
Davitt Award NovelNot yet awarded
Young adult novelNot yet awarded
Children's novelNot yet awarded
Non-fictionNot yet awarded
DebutNot yet awarded
Readers' choiceNot yet awarded
Ned Kelly Award NovelNot yet awarded
First novelNot yet awarded
True crimeNot yet awarded

Non-Fiction

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
The Age Book of the Year [15] Non-FictionLech BlaineAustralian Gospel Black Inc.
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [10] Non-Fiction Markus Zusak Three Wild Dogs and the Truth Picador
Illustrated Non-Fiction Criss CanningThe Paintings of Criss CanningThames and Hudson Australia
National Biography Award [18] Biography Abbas El-Zein Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and WarsUpswell Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards Non-FictionNot yet awarded
Australian HistoryNot yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [11] Non-Fiction James Bradley Deep WaterHamish Hamilton
New South Wales Premier's History Awards Australian HistoryNot yet awarded
Community and Regional HistoryNot yet awarded
General HistoryNot yet awarded
Queensland Literary Awards Non-FictionNot yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [13] [14] Non-Fiction Susan Hampton Anything Can HappenPuncher & Wattman
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Not yet awarded

Poetry

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
Anne Elder Award [19] Izzy Roberts-OrrRaw SaltVagabond
Mary Gilmore Award [20] Hasib HouraniRock FlightGiramondo
Prime Minister's Literary Awards Not yet awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [11] Hasib Houranirock flightGiramondo
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection Not yet awarded
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [13] [14] Jeanine Leane Gawimarra: GatheringUniversity of Queensland Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Not yet awarded

Drama

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [11] ScriptCharles WilliamsInsideSimpatico Films, Macgowan Films, Never Sleep Pictures
PlayGlenn SheaThree Magpies Perched in a TreeCurrency Press, with La Mama Theatre
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [13] [14] Nathan Maynard37Currency Press, with Melbourne Theatre Company

Deaths

See also

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. ↑ "McFarlane wins 2025 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 1 July 2025. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2025"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Story, Hannah (19 May 2025). "Nam Le wins major literary award, 16 years after winning for The Boat". ABC News. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  12. ↑ ""'Serious consequences for Australian democracy': Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship"". The Age, 24 May 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025". The Wheeler Centre. 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
  15. 1 2 ""A late-career marvel and an enriching memoir: The Age Book of the Year winners"". The Age, 8 May 2025. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
  16. ↑ "Siang Lu's book languished in a drawer for years. Now it's won $60,000". ABC News. 24 July 2025. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
  17. ↑ "CBCA Book of the Year Award winners". Books+Publishing. 15 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  18. ↑ "El-Zein wins 2025 National Biography Award". Books+Publishing. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  19. ↑ "Roberts-Orr wins 2024 Anne Elder Award". Books+Publishing. 3 June 2025. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
  20. ↑ "Hourani wins 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize". Books+Publishing. 1 July 2025. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  21. ↑ Flux, Elizabeth (6 April 2025). "Kerry Greenwood, author behind Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, dies at 70". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  22. ↑ ""Damien Broderick (1944-2025)"". File770. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  23. ↑ Spencer, Neville (6 May 2025). "Vale Tracy Sorensen: Academic, author and all-round creative human". Green Left. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
  24. ↑ "Austlit — Leanne Frahm (1946-2025)". Austlit. Retrieved 5 July 2025.
  25. ↑ "David DALE Obituary (2025) – The Sydney Morning Herald". Legacy.com. 12 August 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  26. ↑ Duffy, Piper (28 August 2025). "Indigenous community in mourning after celebrated artist's death". ABC News. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
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