This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature.
Major publications
Literary fiction
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Crime and mystery
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Romance
Poetry
Drama
- Daniel Keene â The Long Way Home
- Matthew Whittet â Seventeen
Biographies
Non-fiction
- Joel Deane â Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power
- Andrew Fowler â The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom
- Gideon Haigh â Certain Admissions
- Lucy Sussex â Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of the Hansom Cab
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Literary
Fiction
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Crime and Mystery
International
National
Science fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-Fiction
Deaths
- 28 January â Lionel Gilbert, historian, author, and academic, (born 1924)
- 29 January â Colleen McCullough, novelist (born 1937)
- 13 February â Faith Bandler, author and civil rights activist (born 1918)
- 23 February â James Aldridge, novelist (born 1918)
- 20 March â Malcolm Fraser, politician and author (born 1930)
- 23 March â Alan Seymour, playwright (born 1927)
- 20 May â J. S. Harry, poet (born 1939)
- 29 May â Syd Harrex, poet and academic (born 1935)
- 20 August â Veronica Brady, poet and critic (born 1929)
- 4 October â Nan Hunt, children's writer who also wrote as N. L. Ray (born 1918)
See also
References
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.