Davitt Award Australian literary award
The Davitt Awards are literary awards which are presented annually by the Sisters in Crime, Australia association. The awards are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812–1879) who wrote Australia's first mystery novel, Force and Fraud in 1865. They are presented for Australian crime fiction , by women, for both adults and young adults. They were established in 2001 to mark the 10th anniversary of the association.[ 1]
Categories
Adult Novel
Young Adult Novel
True Crime
Debut Crime
Readers' Choice Previous winners
2020s
Davitt Award winners 2020-2029
Year
Category
Author
Title
Ref
2020 Adult Novel
Meg Mundell The Trespassers [ 2]
Young Adult Novel
Astrid Scholte Four Dead Queens
Children's Novel
Jenny Blackford The Girl in the Mirror
True Crime
Adele Ferguson Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the Truth
Debut Novel
Susan Hurley Eight Lives
Readers' Choice
Dervla McTiernan The Scholar
Emma Viskic Darkness for Light
2021 Adult Novel
Sally Hepworth The Good Sister [ 2]
Young Adult Novel
Christie Nieman Where We Begin
Children's Novel
Lian Tanner A Clue for Clara
True Crime
Louise Milligan Witness
Debut Novel
Leah Swann Sheerwater
Readers' Choice
Katherine Kovacic The Shifting Landscape
2022 Adult Novel
Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves [ 2]
Young Adult Novel
Leanne Hall The Gaps
Children's Novel
Nicki Greenberg The Detective's Guide to Ocean Travel
Non-Fiction
Kate Holden The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek
Debut
Jacqueline Bublitz Before You Knew My Name
Readers' Choice
Jacqueline Bublitz Before You Knew My Name
2023 Adult Novel
Tracey Lien
All That's Left Unsaid [ 2]
Young Adult Novel
Fleur Ferris
Seven Days
Children's Novel
Charlie Archbold
The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat
Non-Fiction
Megan Norris
Out of the Ashes
Debut
Hayley Scrivenor
Dirt Town
Readers' Choice
Vikki Petraitis The Unbelieved
2024 Adult Novel
Monica Vuu
When One of Us Hurts [ 2]
Young Adult Novel
Amy Doak
Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer
Children's Novel
Lucinda Gifford
The Wolves of Greycoat Hall
Non-Fiction
Rebecca Hazel
The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife
Debut
Christine Keighery
The Half Brother
Readers' Choice
Alison Goodman The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
2025 Adult Novel
Vikki Wakefield To the River [ 5]
Young Adult Novel
Erin Gough
Into the Mouth of the Wolf
Children's Novel
Judith Rossell
The Midwatch
Non-Fiction
Lucia Osborne-Crowley The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
Debut
Georgia Harper
What I Would Do to You
Readers' Choice
Dervla McTiernan What Happened to Nina?
