Aurealis Award for best young adult novel

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".[2] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year;[3] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.[4]

Aurealis Award for best young adult novel
The Aurealis Award design is often placed on the winning book's cover as a promotional tool.[1]
Awarded for	Excellence in young adult speculative fiction novels
Country	Australia
Presented by	Chimaera Publications, Continuum Foundation
First awarded	1995
Currently held by	Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Website	Official site

Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has added weight to the honour of the award.[5]

The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of finalists.[2] Ties can occur if the panel decides that both entries show equal merit, however they are encouraged to choose a single winner.[6] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.[7]

This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best young-adult novel category, as well as novels that have been highly commended. Three people have won the award twice – Isobelle Carmody, Garth Nix and Scott Westerfeld. Westerfeld holds the record for most nominations with nine, and Rory Barnes has the most nominations without winning, having been a losing finalist five times.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list.

  *   Winners and joint winners
  *   Nominees on the shortlist

Garth Nix has been a finalist on six occasions, winning in 1995 and 2003.

Kerry Greenwood has won once in 1996 and received a high commendation in 2005.

Damien Broderick has been a short-list nominee twice with his collaborations with Rory Barnes.

Richard Harland has been a finalist once in 2000.

Scott Westerfeld has received the most nominations with nine and has been a winner on three of those occasions.

Sean Williams has been a finalist twice, most recently in 2009.

Year	Author(s)	Novel	Publisher	Ref
1995	Brian Caswell*	Deucalion	UQP	[8]
1995	Garth Nix*	Sabriel	Moonstone	[8]
1995	Isobelle Carmody	Ashling	Viking Press	[8]
1995	Catherine Jinks	Witch Bank	Puffin Books	[8]
1995	John Marsden	The Third Day, The Frost	Pan Macmillan	[8]
1996	Hilary Bell*	Mirror, Mirror	Hodder Headline	[9]
1996	Kerry Greenwood*	The Broken Wheel	Moonstone	[9]
1996	Sara Douglass	Beyond the Hanging Wall	Voyager Books	[9]
1996	Victor Kelleher	Firedancer	Penguin Books	[9]
1996	Michael Pryor	The Mask of Caliban	Hodder Headline	[9]
1997	Isobelle Carmody*	Greylands	Puffin Books	[10]
1997	Catherine Jinks*	Eye to Eye	Puffin Books	[10]
1997	Patricia Bernard	The Outcast	Moonstone	[10]
1997	Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes	Zones	Moonstone	[10]
1997	Garth Nix	Shade's Children	Allen & Unwin	[10]
1998	Alison Goodman*	Singing the Dogstar Blues	HarperCollins	[11]
1998	Rory Barnes	Horsehead Boy	HarperCollins	[11]
1998	Melissa Lucashenko	Killing Darcy	UQP	[11]
1998	Dave Luckett	A Dark Winter	Omnibus Books	[11]
1998	John Marsden	The Night Is for Hunting	Pan Macmillan	[11]
1999	Dave Luckett*	A Dark Victory	Omnibus Books	[12]
1999	Rory Barnes	Horsehead Man	HarperCollins	[12]
1999	Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes	Stuck in Fast Forward	HarperCollins	[12]
1999	Victor Kelleher	Into the Dark	Viking Press	[12]
1999	Victor Kelleher	The Ivory Trail	Viking Press	[12]
2000	Sonya Hartnett*	Thursday's Child	Penguin Books	[13]
2000	Rory Barnes	Horsehead Soup	HarperCollins	[13]
2000	Richard Harland	Ferren and the Angel	Penguin Books	[13]
2000	Christine Harris	Omega	Random House	[13]
2000	Sophie Masson	The Green Prince	Hodder Headline	[13]
2001	Louise Katz*	The Other Face of Janus	Angus & Robertson	[14]
2001	Anna Fienberg	The Witch in the Lake	Allen & Unwin	[14]
2001	Garth Nix	Lirael	Allen & Unwin	[14]
2001	Cameron Rogers	The Music of Razors	Penguin Books	[14]
2001	Gillian Rubinstein	Terra-Farma	Viking Press	[14]
2002	Sophie Masson*	The Hand of Glory	Hodder Headline	[15]
2002	Kate Forsyth	The Starthorn Tree	Pan Books	[15]
2002	David McRobbie	Mum, Me, the 19th C	Angus & Robertson	[15]
2002	Natalie Jane Prior	Fireworks and Darkness	Angus & Robertson	[15]
2003	Garth Nix*	Abhorsen	Allen & Unwin	[16]
2003	Carole Wilkinson*	Dragonkeeper	Black Dog Books	[16]
2003	Janeen Webb	The Silken Road to Samarkand	HarperCollins	[16]
2004	Scott Westerfeld*	The Secret Hour	Eos	[17]
2004	Jackie French	Flesh and Blood	HarperCollins	[17]
2004	Penni Russon	Undine	Random House	[17]
2004	Matt Zurbo	Hot Nights, Cool Dragons	Allen & Unwin	[17]
2005	Isobelle Carmody*	Alyzon Whitestarr	Penguin Books	[18]
2005	Anthony Eaton	Nightpeople	UQP	[18]
2005	Justine Larbalestier	Magic or Madness	Penguin Books	[18]
2005	Scott Westerfeld	Peeps	Penguin Books	[18]
2005	Scott Westerfeld	Uglies	Simon & Schuster	[18]
2006	D. M. Cornish*	Foundling	Omnibus Books	[19]
2006	Amanda Holohan	The King's Fool	ABC Books	[19]
2006	Justine Larbalestier	Magic Lessons	Penguin Books	[19]
2006	Juliet Marillier	Wildwood Dancing	Pan Macmillan	[19]
2006	Scott Westerfeld	The Last Days	Penguin Books	[19]
2007	Anthony Eaton*	Skyfall	UQP	[20]
2007	Kate Constable	Taste of Lightning	Allen & Unwin	[20]
2007	Juliet Marillier	Cybele's Secret	Pan Macmillan	[20]
2007	Michael Pryor	Heart of Gold	Random House	[20]
2007	Scott Westerfeld	Extras	Simon Pulse	[20]
2008	Melina Marchetta*	Finnikin of the Rock	Viking Press	[21]
2008	Isobelle Carmody	The Stone Key	Viking Press	[21]
2008	D. M. Cornish	Lamplighter	Omnibus Books	[21]
2008	Alison Goodman	The Two Pearls of Wisdom	HarperCollins	[21]
2008	Sean Williams	The Changeling	Angus & Robertson	[21]
2009	Scott Westerfeld*	Leviathan	Penguin Books	[22]
2009	Kate Forsyth	The Puzzle Ring	Pan Macmillan	[22]
2009	Cassandra Golds	The Museum of Mary Child	Puffin Books	[22]
2009	Glenda Millard	A Small Free Kiss in the Dark	Allen & Unwin	[22]
2009	Sean Williams	The Scarecrow	HarperCollins	[22]
2010	Karen Healey*	Guardian of the Dead	Allen & Unwin	[23]
2010	Ananda Braxton-Smith	Merrow	Black Dog Books	[24]
2010	Sonya Hartnett	The Midnight Zoo	Penguin Books	[24]
2010	Doug MacLeod	The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher	Penguin Books	[24]
2010	Scott Westerfeld	Behemoth	Penguin Books	[24]
2011	Penni Russon*	Only Ever Always	Allen & Unwin	[25]
2011	Em Bailey	Shift	Hardie Grant Egmont	[26]
2011	Ananda Braxton-Smith	Secrets of Carrick: Tantony	Black Dog Books	[26]
2011	Karen Healey	The Shattering	Allen & Unwin	[26]
2011	Meg Mundell	Black Glass	Scribe Publications	[26]
2012	Kaz Delaney* (tie)	Dead, Actually	Allen & Unwin	[27]
2012	Margo Lanagan* (tie)	Sea Hearts	Allen & Unwin	[27]
2012	Andrea K. Höst	And All the Stars	Andrea K. Hosth	[28]
2012	Ambelin Kwaymullina	The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf	Walker Books	[28]
2012	Louis Nowra	Into That Forest	Allen & Unwin	[28]
2013	Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner* (tie)	These Broken Stars	Allen & Unwin	[29][30]
2013	Allyse Near* (tie)	Fairytales for Wilde Girls	Random House Australia	[29][30]
2013	Tony Davies	The Big Dry	HarperCollins	[29]
2013	Andrea Höst	Hunting	Andrea K. Hösth	[29]
2013	Claire Zorn	The Sky So Heavy	University of Queensland Press	[29]
2014	Jaclyn Moriarty*	The Cracks in the Kingdom	Pan Macmillan Australia	[31]
2014	Rebecca Lim	The Astrologer's Daughter	Text Publishing	[32]
2014	Lynnette Lounsbury	Afterworld	Allen & Unwin	[32]
2014	Garth Nix	Clariel	Allen & Unwin	[32]
2014	Nova Weetman	The Haunting of Lily Frost	UQP	[32]
2014	Scott Westerfeld	Afterworlds	Penguin Books Australia	[32]
2015	Kathryn Barker*	In the Skin of a Monster	Allen & Unwin	[33]
2015	Alison Goodman	Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club	HarperCollins	[34]
2015	Francesca Haig	The Fire Sermon	HarperVoyager	[34]
2015	Trent Jamieson	Day Boy	Text Publishing	[34]
2015	Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff	Illuminae	Allen & Unwin	[34]
2015	Skye Melki-Wagner	Hush	Penguin Random House Australia	[34]
2016	Alison Goodman*	Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact	HarperCollins Publishers	[35][36]
2016	Jane Abbott	Elegy	Penguin Random House Australia	[35]
2016	Alison Croggon	The Bone Queen	Penguin Books Australia	[35]
2016	Emily Gale	The Other Side of Summer	Penguin Random House Australia	[35]
2016	Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff	Gemima: The Illuminae Files 2	Allen & Unwin	[35]
2016	Garth Nix	Goldenhand	Allen & Unwin	[35]
2017	Cally Black*	In the Dark Spaces	Hardie Grant Egmont	[37][38]
2017	Alison Evans	Ida	Bonnier Publishing Australia	[37]
2017	Garth Nix	Frogkisser!	Allen & Unwin	[37]
2017	Emily Suvada	This Mortal Coil	Puffin UK	[37]
2017	Marlee Jane Ward	Psynode	Seizure	[37]
2017	Paula Weston	The Undercurrent	Text Publishing	[37]
2018	Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina*	Catching Teller Crow	Allen & Unwin	[39][40]
2018	Sarah Epstein	Small Spaces	Walker Books Australia	[39]
2018	Jay Kristoff	Lifel1k3	Allen & Unwin	[39]
2018	Emily Rodda	His Name Was Walter	HarperCollins Publishers	[39]
2018	Jo Spurier	A Curse of Ash and Ember	HarperCollins Publishers	[39]
2018	Scott Westerfeld	Impostors	Allen & Unwin	[39]
2019	Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff	Aurora Rising	Allen & Unwin	[41][42]
2019	P. M. Freestone	The Darkest Bloom	Scholastic	[41]
2019	Lisa Fuller	Ghost Bird	University of Queensland Press	[41]
2019	Jay Kristoff	Dev1at3	Allen & Unwin	[41]
2019	Juliet Marillier	The Harp of Kings	Macmillan	[41]
2019	K. S. Nikakis	I Heard the Wolf Call My Name	SOV Media	[41]

High commendations

The high commendations are announced alongside the list of finalists for their respected year of eligibility.[43] In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article.

Year	Author	Novel	Publisher	Ref
2005	Kerry Greenwood	The Rat and the Raven	Lothian Books	[44]
2005	Penni Russon	Breathe	Random House	[44]
2005	Scott Westerfeld	Pretties	Simon & Schuster	[44]

See also

• Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969

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External links

• Aurealis Awards