Australian literary award
The Davitt Awards are literary awards which are presented annually by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812–1879) who wrote Australia's first mystery novel, Force and Fraud in 1865. They are presented for Australian crime fiction , by women, for both adults and young adults. They were established in 2001 to mark the 10th anniversary of the association.
Categories
Adult Novel
Young Adult Novel
True Crime
Debut Crime
Readers' Choice Previous winners
2000s
2010s
2020s
Davitt Award winners 2020-2029
Year
Category
Author
Title
2020 Adult Novel
Meg Mundell
The Trespassers
Young Adult Novel
Astrid Scholte
Four Dead Queens
Children's Novel
Jenny Blackford
The Girl in the Mirror
True Crime
Adele Ferguson
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the Truth
Debut Novel
Susan Hurley
Eight Lives
Readers' Choice
Dervla McTiernan
The Scholar
Emma Viskic
Darkness for Light
2021 Adult Novel
Sally Hepworth
The Good Sister
Young Adult Novel
Christie Nieman
Where We Begin
Children's Novel
Lian Tanner
A Clue for Clara
True Crime
Louise Milligan
Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking Justice
Debut Novel
Leah Swann
Sheerwater
Readers' Choice
Katherine Kovacic
The Shifting Landscape
2022
Adult Novel
Charlotte McConaghy
Once There Were Wolves
Young Adult Novel
Leanne Hall
The Gaps
Children's Novel
Nicki Greenberg
The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel
Non-Fiction
Kate Holden
The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek
Debut
Jacqueline Bublitz
Before You Knew My Name
Readers' Choice
Jacqueline Bublitz
Before You Knew My Name
2023
Adult Novel
Tracey Lien
All That’s Left Unsaid
Young Adult Novel
Fleur Ferris
Seven Days
Children's Novel
Charlie Archbold
The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat
Non-Fiction
Megan Norris
Out of the Ashes
Debut
Hayley Scrivenor
Dirt Town
Readers' Choice
Vikki Petraitis
The Unbelieved
2024
Adult Novel
Monica Vuu
When One of Us Hurts
Young Adult Novel
Amy Doak
Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer
Children's Novel
Lucinda Gifford
The Wolves of Greycoat Hall
Non-Fiction
Rebecca Hazel
The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife
Debut
Christine Keighery
The Half Brother
Readers' Choice
Alison Goodman
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Manered Ladies
See also
References
"The Davitt Awards" . Sisters in Crime Australia . Retrieved 22 May 2022.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2001"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2002"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2003"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2004"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2005"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2006"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2007"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2008"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2009"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2010"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2011"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2012"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2013"" . LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024."Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing" by Stephen A Russell "The New Daily", 4 September 2014
"Announcing the 15th Davitt Awards' Results for Best Crime Books " . Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.Steger, Jason (26 August 2016). "It's a crime spree as Emma Viskic snaffles four writing awards" . The Age . Retrieved 2 August 2022.
"'The Dry' wins best novel at 2017 Davitt Awards" . Books and Publishing. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2018."Sisters in Crime: Davitt Awards 2018" . The Booktopian . 14 August 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2019."'The Ruin' wins best novel at 2019 Davitt Awards" . Books+Publishing . 2 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019."Davitt Awards 2020 winners announced" . Books+Publishing . 28 September 2020. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020."Davitt Awards winners announced" . Books+Publishing . 30 August 2021. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021."Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced" . Books+Publishing . 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023."Davitt Awards 2023 winners announced" . Books+Publishing. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2023."Davitt Awards 2024 winners announced" . Books+Publishing. 2 September 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
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