This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1995.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award[12] | Thomas Shapcott Robert Adamson |
Patrick White Award[13] | Elizabeth Riddell |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize[18] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Tim Winton | The Riders | Pan Macmillan |
Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Adib Khan | Seasonal Adjustments | Allen & Unwin | |
Best Overall First Novel | Adib Khan | Seasonal Adjustments | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year Award[19] | Rod Jones | Billy Sunday | Picador |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[20] | Richard King | Kindling Does for Firewood | Allen and Unwin |
Miles Franklin Award[21] | Helen Demidenko | The Hand That Signed the Paper | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Anne Elder Award[22] | Jennifer Harrison | Michelangelo's Prisoners | Black Pepper Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[23] | Kevin Hart | New and Selected Poems | Angus and Robertson |
Rhyll McMaster | Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972–1994 | Heinemann | |
Jemal Sharah | Path of Ghosts: Poems 1986–93 | Heinemann | |
Mary Gilmore Award[24] | Aileen Kelly | Coming Up for Light | Pariah Press |
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1995 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.