2021 Year In Review: Award Winners
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 | The Night Watman by Louise Erdrich WINNER A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason Telephone by Percival Everett |
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The Miles Franklin Literary Award
 | The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey WINNER The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott At the Edge of the Solid World by Daniel Davis Wood Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts |
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The Stella Prize
 | The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld WINNER Fathoms: the world in the whale by Rebecca Giggs Revenge: Murder in Three Parts by S.L. Lim The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay Witness by Louise Milligan |
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The International Booker Prize
 | At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop WINNER In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez The Employees by Olga Ravn The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut |
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The Davitt Awards (Non-Fiction Crime)
 | Witness by Louise Milligan WINNER After the Count: The death of Davey Browne by Stephanie Convery The Case of George Pell by Melissa Davey Missing William Tyrrell by Caroline Overington Snakes and Ladders by Angela Williams |
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The Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writing)
 | Best True Crime Novel Stalking Claremont by Bret Christian WINNER Hazelwood by Tom Doig The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton Public Enemies by Mark Dapin |
. | Best Crime Fiction Novel Consolation by Garry Disher WINNER The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan A Testament of Character by Sulari Gentill |
 | Best International Crime We Begin at The End by Chris Whitaker WINNER The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman |
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The Daggers (Crime Writing)
| The Gold Dagger We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker WINNER Blacktop Wasteland by S A Cosby City of Ghosts by Ben Creed House of Correction by Nicci French Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths Midnight Atlanta by Thomas Mullen |
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Women’s Prize for Fiction
 | Piranesi by Susanna Clarke WINNER The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones |
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The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award
 | Now That I See You by Emma Batchelor WINNER Hopeless Kingdom by Kgshak Akec Blue by Deborah Thomas |
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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (Fiction)
 | The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay WINNER Witness by Louise Milligan People’s Choice Award |
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