2019 in Australian literature
Overview of literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2019
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Tony Birch – The White Girl[1]
- David Brooks – The Grass Library[2]
- Steven Carroll – The Year of the Beast[3]
- Melanie Cheng – Room for a Stranger[4]
- Peggy Frew – Islands[5]
- Peter Goldsworthy – Minotaur[6]
- John Hughes – No One[7]
- Anna Krien – Act of Grace[8]
- Melina Marchetta – The Place on Dalhousie[9]
- Andrew McGahan – The Rich Man's House (posthumous)[10]
- Gerald Murnane – A Season on Earth[11]
- Favel Parrett – There Was Still Love[12]
- Heather Rose – Bruny[13]
- Philip Salom – The Returns[14]
- Carrie Tiffany – Exploded View[15]
- Lucy Treloar – Wolfe Island[16]
- Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus[17]
- Tara June Winch – The Yield
- Charlotte Wood – The Weekend[18]
Short stories
- Debra Adelaide – Zebra and other stories
- Yumna Kassab – The House of Youssef
- Josephine Rowe – Here Until August
Children's and young adult fiction
- Mem Fox – The Tiny Star
- Helena Fox – How It Feels to Float[19]
- Will Kostakis – Monuments[20]
- Tania McCartney – Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures[21]
- Meg McKinlay – Catch a Falling Star[22]
- Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu[23]
- Holden Sheppard – Invisible Boys[24]
- Vikki Wakefield – This is How We Change the Ending[25]
Crime
- Matthew Condon – The Night Dragon[26]
- Pip Drysdale – The Strangers We Know[27]
- Candice Fox – Gone By Midnight[28]
- Nick Gadd – Death of a Typographer[29]
- Tara Moss – Dead Man Switch[30]
- Dave Warner – River of Salt[31]
- Christian White – The Wife and the Widow[32]
Science fiction
- John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars[33]
- Claire G. Coleman – The Old Lie
- Greg Egan
- The Best of Greg Egan
- Perihelion Summer[34]
- Garth Nix – Angel Mage
Poetry
- Louise Crisp – Yuiquimbiang[35]
- Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition[36]
- Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu[37]
- L. K. Holt – Birth Plan[38]
- Gerald Murnane – Green Shadows and Other Poems[39]
- Pi O – Heide[40]
Non-fiction
- Jane Caro – Accidental Feminists
- Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) – Growing Up African in Australia
- Stan Grant
- Australia Day
- On Identity
- Nicholas Hasluck – Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir
- Jess Hill – See What You Made Me Do
- Jacqueline Kent, Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook
- Caro Llewellyn – Diving into Glass
- Emily Maguire – This is What a Feminist Looks Like
- Bianca Nogrady (editor) – The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
- Christina Thompson – Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Award | Author |
---|---|
Patrick White Award[41] | Jordie Albiston |
Literary
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[42] | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Vagabond Press |
Colin Roderick Award[43] | Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Hamish Hamilton |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[44] | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[45] | Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc |
Stella Prize[46] | Vicki Laveau-Harvie | The Erratics | Fourth Estate |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[47] | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains | Belvoir and Co-Curious |
Fiction
National
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[48] | Not awarded | ||
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[49] | Not awarded | ||
Barbara Jefferis Award[50] | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[44] | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Picador |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[44] | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
Miles Franklin Award[51] | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | University of Queensland Press |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[52] | Gail Jones | The Death of Noah Glass | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
Queensland Literary Awards[54] | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Text Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55] | Elise Valmorbida | The Madonna of the Mountains | Faber & Faber |
Children and Young Adult
National
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book of the Year Award[56] | Older Readers | Clare Atkins | Between Us | Black Inc. |
Younger Readers | Emily Rodda | His Name Was Walter | HarperCollins | |
Picture Book | Shaun Tan | Cicada | Lothian | |
Early Childhood | Alison Lester | Trick's Bad Day | Affirm | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Coral Vass, illustrated by Dub Leffler | Sorry Day | National Library of Australia | |
Nan Chauncy Award[57] | James Moloney | |||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[44] | Children's | Karen Foxlee | Lenny's Book of Everything | Allen & Unwin |
Young Adult | Barry Jonsberg | A Song Only I Can Hear | Allen & Unwin | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] | Children's | Lorraine Marwood (joint winner) | Leave Taking | University of Queensland Press |
Claire Saxby and Tannya Harricks (joint winner) | Dingo | Walker Books | ||
Young People's | Erin Gough | Amelia Westlake | Hardie Grant Egmont | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55] | Young Adult Fiction | Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina | Catching Teller Crow | Allen & Unwin |
Crime and Mystery
National
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award[58] | Novel | Dervla McTiernan | The Rúin | HarperCollins |
Young adult novel | Sarah Epstein | Small Spaces | Walker Books | |
Children's novel | Judith Rossell | Wakestone Hall | ABC Books | |
True crime | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire | Penguin | |
Debut novel | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Allen & Unwin | |
Readers' choice | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan | |
Ned Kelly Award[59] | Novel | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan |
First novel | Dervla McTiernan | The Rúin | HarperCollins | |
True crime | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Allen & Unwin | |
Lifetime achievement | Bob Bottom |
Science fiction
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ditmar Award[60] | Novel | Sam Hawke | City of Lies (Poison Wars 1) | Tor Books |
Best Novella or Novelette | Tansy Rayner Roberts | Cabaret of Monsters | self-published | |
Best Short Story | Kathleen Jennings | "The Heart of Owl Abbas" | Tor.com |
Poetry
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[48] | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award[61] | Eunice Andrada | Flood Damages | Giramondo |
Mary Gilmore Award[62] | Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | Cordite |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] | Judith Bishop | Interval | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55] | Kate Lilley | Tilt | Vagabond Press |
Drama
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] | Script | Benjamin Gilmour | Jirga | Felix Media Pty Ltd |
Play | Kendall Feaver | The Almighty Sometimes | Griffin Theatre |
Non-Fiction
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[48] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[44] | Non-Fiction | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist | Random House Australia |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Marcia Langton | Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country | Hardie Grant Travel | |
National Biography Award[63] | Biography | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] | Non-Fiction | Billy Griffiths (joint winner) | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc. |
Sarah Krasnostein (joint winner) | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing | ||
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[64] | Australian History | Meredith Lake | The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History | NewSouth Books |
Community and Regional History | Sarah Luke | Callan Park, Hospital for the Insane | Australian Scholarly Publishing | |
General History | Christina Thompson | Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia | Harper | |
Queensland Literary Awards[54] | Non-Fiction | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Scribe |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55] | Non-Fiction | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
Deaths
- 20 January – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born 1938)[65]
- 1 February – Andrew McGahan, novelist (born 1966)[66]
- 4 March – Les Carlyon, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (born 1942)[67]
- 13 March – Edmund Capon, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London)[68]
- 15 March – Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria)[69]
- 22 March – Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (born 1927)[70]
- 29 April – Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born 1938)[71]
- 19 May – John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (born 1921)[72]
- 1 June – Christobel Mattingley, writer for children and young adults (born 1931)[73]
- 13 July – Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author (born 1956)[74]
- 21 July –
- Laurie Hergenhan, literary scholar (born 1931)[75]
- Ann Moyal, historian of science (born 1926)[76]
- 10 September – Hal Colebatch, poet and novelist (born 1945)[77]
- 30 October – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born 1939)[78]
- 24 November – Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died in Cambridge, England)(born 1939)[79]
See also
- 2019 in Australia
- 2019 in literature
- 2019 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
- List of Australian literary awards
References
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- ^ "The Grass Library by David Brooks". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Year of the Beast by Steven Carroll". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Islands by Peggy Frew". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "No One by John Hughes". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Act of Grace by Anna Krien". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Bruny by Heather Rose". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Returns by Philip Salom". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Weekend by Charlotte Wood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Monuments by Will Kostakis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures by Tania McCartney". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Gone By Midnight by Candice Fox". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Dead Man Switch by Tara Moss". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "River of Salt by Dave Warner". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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- ^ "After the Demolition by Zenobia Frost". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Birth Plan by L. K. Holt". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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