Ned Kelly Awards
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| Ned Kelly Awards | |
| Awarded for | Excellence in Australian Crime fiction & true crime |
| Presented by | Crime Writers Association of Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| First awarded | 1996 |
| Official website | |
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The Ned Kelly Awards (named for the famous Australian bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia.
The genre of crime writing has long been popular, but it wasn't until the early 1990's that a local growth of writing within the genre occurred in Australia. By the middle of the decade support for the field had grown sufficiently that it was decided to establish the Ned Kelly Awards.
The awards are effectionately referred to as 'The Neddies' within the community.
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[edit] Categories
- Best First Novel
- Best True Crime
- Best Novel
- Best Teenage/Young Adult
- Readers Vote
- Best Non-Fiction
- Lifetime Achievement Awards
[edit] Previous Winners
| Year | Best Novel | Best First Novel | Best True Crime | Best teenage/Young Adult | Reader's Vote | Best Non-Fiction | Lifetime Achievement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | (tie) The Malcontenta by Barry Maitland Inside Dope by Paul Thomas |
Dark Angel by John Dale | NA | NA | NA | NA | Jon Cleary |
| 1997 | Brush Off by Shane Maloney | (tie) Bad Debts by Peter Temple Get Rich Quick by Peter Doyle |
NA | NA | NA | How to Write Crime edited by Marele Day | Alan Yates (aka Carter Brown) |
| 1998 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 1999 | Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle | The Last Days by Andrew Masterson | NA | NA | NA | NA | Peter Corris |
| 2000 | Shooting Star by Peter Temple | The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne | (tie) Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life by John Dale Underbelly 3 by Andrew Rule and John Silvester |
NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 2001 | (tie) Dead Point by Peter Temple The Second Coming by Andrew Masterson |
Last Drinks by Andrew McGahan | Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn | NA | Bleeding Hearts by Lindy Cameron | NA | Professor Stephen Knight |
| 2002 | Death Delights by Gabrielle Lord | (tie) Apartment 255 by Bunty Avieson Who Killed Angelique? by Emma Darcy |
(tie) Razor by Larry Writer The Hanged Man by Mike Richards |
Blue Murder by Ken Catran | Apartment 255 by Bunty Avieson | NA | Patrick Gallagher |
| 2003 | White Dog by Peter Temple | Blood Redemption by Alex Palmer | Blood Stain by Peter Lalor | NA | NA | NA | Kerry Greenwood |
| 2004 | Degrees of Connection by Jon Cleary | (tie) The Walker by Jane R Goodall Junkie Pilgrim by Wayne Grogan |
Killing Juanita by Peter Rees | NA | NA | NA | Bob Bottom |
| 2005 | Lost by Michael Robotham | A Private Man by Malcolm Knox | (tie) Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner Mr Big by Tony Reeves |
NA | NA | NA | Stuart Coupe |
| 2006 | (tie) Crook as Rookwood by Chris Nyst The Broken Shore by Peter Temple |
Out of the Silence by Wendy James | Packing Death by Lauchlin McCulloch | NA | NA | NA | Andrew Rule and John Silvester |
| 2007 | Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher | Diamond Dove by Adrian Hyland | (tie) Written On The Skin by Liz Porter Killing For Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders by Debi Marshal |
NA | NA | NA | Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson |
| 2008 |
