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The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia’s leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia.The genre of crime writing has long been popular but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that a local growth of writing within the genre occurred in Australia.