2012 Ned Kelly Award Winners

Crime Writers' Association of Australia announced the winners of the Ned Kelly Awards:

Best Novel: Pig Boy by J.C. Burke (Random House)

Best First Novel: The Cartographer by Peter Twohig (HarperCollins)

Best True Crime: Sins of the Father by Eamonn Duff (Allen & Unwin)

S.D. Harvey Short Story Award: “Summer of the 17th Poll,”
by A.J. Clifford

Lifetime Achievement: Gabrielle Lord

Hat Tip: Omnimystery News

Ned Kelly Awards Shortlist

Crime Writers’ Association of Australia announced the shortlist for the 2012 Ned Kelly Awards

Best Fiction:
• The Life, by Malcolm Knox (Allen & Unwin)
• Chelsea Mansions, by Barry Maitland (Allen & Unwin)
• Pig Boy, by J.C. Burke (Random House)

Best First Fiction:
• The Courier’s New Bicycle, by Kim Westwood (HarperCollins)
• The Cartographer, by Peter Twohig (HarperCollins)
• When We Have Wings, by Claire Corbett (Allen & Unwin)

Best True Crime:
• Cold Case Files, by Liz Porter (Pan Macmillan)
• Call Me Cruel, by Michael Duffy (Allen & Unwin)
• Sins of the Father, by Eamonn Duff (Allen & Unwin)

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Ned Kelly Awards 2011

The Crime Writers’ Association of Australia has announced the winners of the 2011 Ned Kelly Awards.

Best First Fiction
Alan Carter Prime Cut (Fremantle Press)

S.D. Harvey Short Story Award
A.S. Patric Hemisphere Travel Guides: Las Vegas For Vegans

True Crime
Geesche Jacobson Abandoned- The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble (Allen & Unwin)

Best Fiction
Geoffrey McGeachin The Diggers Rest Hotel (Penguin)

Congratulations to all!

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