Ned Kelly Award / Honorary Prize
Ned Kelly Award : Honorary Award designates the winner of the honorary award ( Lifetime Achievement Award , until 1999 Lifetime Contribution ) of the Ned Kelly Awards, which has been given in recognition of a person's contribution or life's work to the crime genre since 1996. In 1997, the award was posthumously awarded to the crime writer Carter Brown (1923–1985).
| year | Award winners | nationality | job |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Jon Cleary | Australia | author |
| 1997 | Carter Brown * | Australia, UK | author |
| 1998 | Prize not awarded | ||
| 1999 | Peter Corris | Australia | author |
| 2000 | Prize not awarded | ||
| 2001 | Stephen Knight | Australia | Book critic and professor of English literature at the Australian National University |
| 2002 | Patrick Gallagher | Australia | Managing Director (Verlag Allan & Unwin) |
| 2003 | Kerry Greenwood | Australia | author |
| 2004 | Bob Bottom | Australia | Investigative journalist |
| 2005 | Stuart Coupe | Australia | author |
| 2006 | Andrew Rule | Australia | Journalist and author |
| John New Years | Australia | Journalist and author | |
| 2007 | Sandra Harvey | Australia | Book author |
| Lindsay Simpson | Australia | Journalist and author, director of the journalism program at James Cook University , Townsville |
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| 2008 | Marele Day | Australia | Book author |
| 2009 | Shane Maloney | Australia | author |
| 2010 | Peter Doyle | Australia | author |
| 2011 | Prize not awarded | ||
| 2012 | Gabrielle Lord | Australia | Book author |
| 2013 - 2015 |
Prize not awarded | ||
| 2018 | Garry Disher | Australia | author |
* = Posthumous honor