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Aurealis Awards 2012

The 2012 Aurealis Awards went to The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six by Jonathan Strahan (Anthology), Brotherband: The Hunters by John Flanagan (Children's Fiction) and Little Elephants by Graeme Base (Children's Illustrated Work), with winners in 6 more categories. 41 books were finalists across 9 categories.

Winners

Anthology

  1. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Sixsource (opens in a new tab)

Children's Fiction

  1. Brotherband: The Hunterssource (opens in a new tab)

Children's Illustrated Work

  1. Little Elephantssource (opens in a new tab)

Collection

  1. That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrotesource (opens in a new tab)

Fantasy Novel

  1. Sea Heartssource (opens in a new tab)

Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work

  1. Bluesource (opens in a new tab)

Horror Novel

  1. Perfectionssource (opens in a new tab)

Science Fiction Novel

  1. The Rooksource (opens in a new tab)

Young Adult Novel

  1. Dead, Actuallysource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Sea Heartssource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Anthology

  1. Bloodstonessource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Edge of Infinitysource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011source (opens in a new tab)
  4. Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldronsource (opens in a new tab)

Children's Fiction

  1. Irina the Wolf Queensource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Princess Betony and the Unicornsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Silver Doorsource (opens in a new tab)

Children's Illustrated Work

  1. In the Beech Forestsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Inside the World of Tom Robertssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Boy Who Grew Into a Treesource (opens in a new tab)

Collection

  1. Living with the Deadsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Metro Windssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Midnight and Moonshinesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Through Splintered Wallssource (opens in a new tab)

Fantasy Novel

  1. Bitter Greenssource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Flame of Sevenwaterssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Stormdancersource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Winter Be My Shieldsource (opens in a new tab)

Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work

  1. Changing Ways #2source (opens in a new tab)
  2. It Shines and Shakes and Laughssource (opens in a new tab)

Horror Novel

  1. Blood and Dustsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Bloody Waterssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Salvagesource (opens in a new tab)

Science Fiction Novel

  1. A Confusion of Princessource (opens in a new tab)
  2. And All the Starssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Suitedsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolfsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Last Citysource (opens in a new tab)

Young Adult Novel

  1. And All the Starssource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Into That Forestsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolfsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Aurealis Awards

Year is the award year the body uses: the "2025 Aurealis Awards" honor works published in 2025 and were presented in February 2026. Book categories only: SF, Fantasy and Horror Novel; YA Novel; Children's Fiction (Children's Novel 2006, Long Fiction 2007-2009, Fiction told primarily through words 2011-2012); Children's Illustrated Work (picture book category 2008-2012); Children's Short Fiction (2006-2007, all standalone books); Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work; Collection; Anthology (author field holds the editors); and SF, Fantasy and Horror Novella (from 2015) only where the novella was a standalone book. Entries in short-story categories are kept only when published as a standalone book (e.g. The Arrival, 2006 YA Short Story winner). Golden Aurealis, Convenors' Award, Sara Douglass Book Series Award and the Kris Hembury award are skipped. 2011 Horror Novel had no shortlist or winner; its two honourable mentions are level Honor. Two 2008 children's entries that named a four-book set are split into one row per book. Rows cite sfadb.com (Locus Science Fiction Foundation), which the body's own Finalists and Winners page (https://web.archive.org/web/20250817004147/https://aurealisawards.org/finalists-and-winners/) names as the full list of nominees and winners; aurealisawards.org itself lapsed in October 2026. sfadb pages are named by presentation year (one year after the award year). Standalone-book status follows sfadb's typography (book titles bold, stories quoted).

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