2020 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2020, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
Sections
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Stella Prize
The Man Booker Prize
The Davitt Awards (Crime Writing)
The Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writing)
The Daggers (Crime Writing)
Women’s Prize for Fiction
National Biography Award
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 | The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead WINNER |
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
 | The Yield by Tara June Winch WINNER No One by John Hughes The Returns by Philip Salom |
The Stella Prize
 | See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill WINNER Diving Into Glass by Caro Llewellyn There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett Here Until August by Josephine Rowe |
The Man Booker Prize
 | Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart WINNER The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste The New Wilderness by Diane Cook |
The Davitt Awards (Crime Writing)
 | Best Adult Fiction The Trespassers by Meg Mundell WINNER Eight Lives by Susan Hurley Present Tense by Natalie Conyer |
The Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writing)
 . | Best Crime Novel The Wife and the Widow by Christian White WINNER Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale |
 . | Best Debut Novel Present Tense by Natalie Conyer WINNER Eight Lives by Susan Hurley |
 | Best International Crime The Chain by Adrian McKinty WINNER |
The Daggers (Crime Writing)
 | The Gold Dagger Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robotham WINNER What You Pay For by Claire Askew November Road by Lou Berney Forced Confessions by John Fairfax Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee
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Women’s Prize for Fiction
 | Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell WINNER Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel Dominicana by Angie Cruz |
National Biography Award
 | Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins WINNER Beyond Words: A year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent Idling in green Places: A life of Alec Chisholm by Russell McGregor Things Nobody Knows But Me by Amra Pajalić Hearing Maud by Jessica White |
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