International
Awarded to 122 Nobel Laureates since 1901. The Swedish Academy sends out invitations to experts in the field of literature for nominations, then selects the Laureate based on their entire body of work. The 2025 Laureate is László Krasznahorkai.
Started in 1969, the award is given to the book the judges believe to be the year’s greatest work of English-language fiction published in the UK or Island. The book must speak to contemporary readers, and be of sufficient quality to be considered great literature in the future. The 2024 Winner was Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
Started in 2015, the award is given to the book the judges believe to be the greatest work of international fiction to be translated into English and be published in the UK or Ireland. It aims to promote excellent fiction from around the world to English-speaking readers. The 2025 Winner is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq.
Australian
Starting in 2003, the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) is an annual celebration that celebrates the connection between Australian readers and the ‘book makers’ who unite to create the must-read books of the year. Currently, the Awards include 25 categories. The 2025 Winner for Book of the Year was The Voice Inside, John Farnham with Poppy Stockwell.
Starting in 1996, The Ned Kelly Awards are one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious prizes honouring our crime fiction and true crime writing. The awards include four categories. The 2025 Winners:
- Best Crime Fiction is The Creeper, by Margaret Hickey. Find The Creeper in our catalogue.
- Best Debut Crime Fiction is All You Took from Me, by Lisa Kenway. Find All You Took from Me in our catalogue.
- Best True Crime is A Thousand Miles from Care, by Steve Johnson. Find A Thousand Miles from Care in our catalogue.
- Best International Crime Fiction is A Case of Matricide, by Graeme Macrae Burnet.
Started in 2012, the Stella Prize is a major literary award that celebrates Australian women’s writing and an organisation that champions cultural change. The 2025 Winner is Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser.
Beginning in 2008, these awards play an important role in celebrating the outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life. At present, there are six categories awarded. The 2025 Winners are:
- Fiction is Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Krester. Find Theory & Practice in our catalogue.
Children’s Literature is Leo and Ralph, by Peter Carnavas. Find Leo and Ralph in our catalogue.- Non-Fiction is Mean Streak, by Rick Morton. Find Mean Streak in our catalogue.
- Young Adult Literature is The Invocations, by Krystal Southerland. Find The Invocations in our catalogue.
- Australian History is Critical Care, by Geraldine Fela. Find Critical Care in our catalogue.
- Poetry is The Other Side of Daylight, by David Brooks.
The Indie Book Awards were established in 2008 with the aim of creating a unique award recognising and rewarding the best Australian writing as chosen by Australian Independent Booksellers. They currently award seven different categories. The 2025 Book of the Year was Dusk, by Robbie Arnott.
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is Australia’s most prestigious literature prize. Established in 1957 through the will of My Brilliant Career author, Miles Franklin, the prize is awarded each year to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases. The 2025 Winner is Ghost Cities, by Siang Lu.
Western Australian
Starting in 1982, the Premier’s Book Awards are an important and integral part of the State’s cultural activity which honours Western Australian and Australian writing. There are currently eight different categories, including the new Daisy Utemorrah Award for an unpublished indigenous Junior or Young Adult Fiction. The 2025 Winners are:
- Book of the Year: G-d, Sleep, and Chaos, by Alan Fyfe.
- Writing for Children is: A Leaf Called Greafby, by Kelly Canby.
- Young Adult Book of the Year is: My Family and Other Suspects, by Kate Emery. Find My Family and Other Suspects in our catalogue.
- Poetry Book of the Year: G-d, Sleep, and Chaos, by Alan Fyfe.
- Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Anatomy of a Secret, by Gerard McCann. Find Anatomy of a Secret in our catalogue.
- Fiction Book of the Year: Shadows of Winter, by Robinsby Louise Wolhuter
- Emerging Writer is: Matia, by Emily Tsokos Purtill. Find Matia in our catalogue.
- Daisy Utemorrah Award is: Jax Paperweight and the Neon Starway, by Beau Windon.
The Writing WA website provides updates and links to a variety of book awards you may be interested in.