Russell Prize
The Russell Prize is an Australian literary prize awarded to a funny book. The prize is awarded every second year by the State Library of New South Wales. A shortlist of six books is selected first and publicly announced before the prize, which comes with a cash award of $10,000.
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Bernard Cohen | The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies | Fourth Estate | Helen Razer and Bernard Keane, A Short History of Stupid; Jo Case, Boomer & Me, A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger's; Sami Shah, I, Migrant; Mark Lamprell, The Full Ridiculous; and Annabel Crabb, The Wife Drought |
| 2017 | Steve Toltz | Quicksand | Simon & Schuster | Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen, Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure; David Hunt, True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia — Volume 2; Darrell Pitt, A Toaster on Mars; Ben Pobjie, Error Australis; and Rosie Waterland, The Anti-Cool Girl |
| 2019 | David Cohen | The Hunter and Other Stories of Men | Transit Lounge | Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe ; Tony Martin, Deadly Kerfuffle, Ryan O’Neill; The Drover’s Wives ; Helen Razer, The Helen 100 ; and Tracy Sorensen, The Lucky Galah. |