2022 Year In Review: Award Winners
International Booker Prize
 | Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree WINNER Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung |
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 | The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen WINNER Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman Palmares by Gayl Jones |
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The Miles Franklin Literary Award
 | Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down WINNER The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad Grimmish by Michael Winkler |
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The Stella Prize
 | Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen WINNER Bodies of light by Jennifer Down Stone fruit by Lee Lai
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The Davitt Awards (Non-Fiction Crime)
 | The Winter Road by Kate Holden WINNER Empowering Women: From murder and misogyny to High Court victory by Susie Allanson Larrimah by Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders by Debi Marshall |
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The Ned Kelly Awards (Crime Writing)
 | Best True Crime Novel Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders by Debi Marshall WINNER The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar Larrimah by Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson A Witness of Fact by Drew Rooke |
. | Best Crime Fiction Novel The Chase by Candice Fox WINNER The Enemy within by Tim Ayliffe You had it coming by BM Carroll Kill your brother by Jack Heath |
 | Best International Crime The Maid by Nita Prose WINNER Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet |
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The Daggers (Crime Writing)
 | The Gold Dagger Sunset swing by Ray Celestin WINNER Before you knew my name by Jacqueline Bublitz The unwilling by John Hart The shadows of men by Abir Mukherjee The trawlerman by William Shaw |
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Women’s Prize for Fiction
 | The book of form and emptiness by Ruth Ozeki WINNER Great circle by Maggie Shipstead The bread the devil knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini The island of missing trees by Elif Shafak The sentence by Louise Erdrich
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
 | A place near eden by Nell Pierce WINNER |
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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (Fiction)
 | Smokehouse by Melissa Manning WINNER After Story by Larissa Behrendt Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down The Dogs by John Hughes Permafrost by S.J Norman |
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Prime Minister’s Literary Award
 | Red heaven by Nicolas Rothwell WINNER Dark as last night by Tony Birch |
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