2023 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the award winning books of 2023, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
International Booker Prize
 | Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov WINNER Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel Standing Heavy by GauZ’ The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan Boulder by Eva Baltasar |
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Booker Prize
 | Prophet Song by Paul Lynch WINNER This Other Eden by Paul Harding |
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 | Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver WINNER Trust by Hernan Diaz WINNER Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara |
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The Miles Franklin Literary Award
 | Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran WINNER Hopeless Kingdom by Kgshak Akec |
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The Stella Prize
 | The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt WINNER We Come With This Place by Debra Dank Big Beautiful Female Theory by Eloise Grills Indelible City by Louisa Lim |
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Women’s Prize for Fiction
| Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver WINNER Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Pod by Laline Paull Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks |
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
 | Immaculate by Anna McGahan WINNER Don’t They Know It’s The End of the World? by Nick Milde A Collection of Endings by Lily McCann |
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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (Fiction)
 | Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au WINNER The Signal Line by Brendan Colley This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa |
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Prime Minister’s Literary Award
 | Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au WINNER The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane Other Houses by Paddy O’Reilly |
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The Danger Awards
 | Best Crime Fiction The Tilt by Chris Hammer WINNER Brunswick Street Blues by Sally Bothroyd Daughters of Eve by Nina D Campbell Double Lives by Kate McCaffrey The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie |
 | Best crime fiction debut |
 | Best True Crime The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler WINNER Nabbing Ned Kelly by David Dufty An Uncommon Hangman by Rachel Franks |
 | Reader’s Choice |
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The Davitt Awards
 | Best Non-Fiction Crime Book Out of the Ashes by Megan Norris WINNER Don’t Make a Fuss: It’s only the Claremont Serial Killer by Wendy Davis Legitimate Sexpectations: The power of sex-ed by Katrina Marson |
 | Best Adult Crime Novel All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien WINNER When We Fall by Aoife Clifford The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie |
 | Best Debut Crime Book Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor WINNER All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie |
 | Reader’s Choice |
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The Ned Kelly Awards
 | Best True Crime Novel Betrayed by Sandi Logan WINNER Out of the Ashes by Megan Norris Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! by Officer A Death Row at Truro by Geoff Plunkett |
. | Best Crime Fiction Novel Exiles by Jane Harper WINNER When We Fall by Aoife Clifford Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic The Carnival Is Over by Greg Woodland |
. | Best Debut Crime Fiction Wake by Shelley Burr WINNER The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon How to Kill a Client by Joanna Jenkins Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne Denizen by James McKenzie Watson |
 | Best International Crime |
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The Daggers
 | The Gold Dagger (Best Crime Novel) The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green WINNER The Lost Man of Bombay by Vaseem Khan A Killing in November by Simon Mason The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola The Silent Brother by Simon Van der Velde |
 | Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (Best Espionage, Psychological or Adventure Thriller) Agent Seventeen by John Brownlow WINNER Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith The Chase by Ava Glass |
 | New Blood Dagger (Best Crime Novel by a First-Time Author) Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor WINNER Breaking by Amanda Cassidy The Local by Joey Hartstone London in Black by Jack Lutz |
 | Historical Dagger The Darkest Sin by D.V. Bishop WINNER The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola The Homes by J.B. Mylet The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith |
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