2003 in Australian literature
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The year 2003 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.
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2004 in Australian literature
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2003 in literature
The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales*Atsuko Asano - No...
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2002 in literature
2002 in literature
The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...
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2003 in Australia
2003 in Australia
-Incumbents:*Monarch – Queen Elizabeth II*Governor General – Peter Hollingworth, then Administrator of Australia – Sir Guy Green , then Michael Jeffery*Prime Minister – John Howard*Premier of New South Wales – Bob Carr*Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann...
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2004 in Australian literature
2004 in Australian literature
The year 2004 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2004 in literature.See also:2003 in Australian literature,2004 in Australia,...
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Events
- Peter Carey and Joan LondonJoan LondonJoan London is the name of:* Joan London , Australian fiction author* Joan London , California author and daughter of Jack London...
join the list of authors who have withdrawn from contention for the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. In 2002 Richard FlanaganRichard FlanaganRichard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
and Tim WintonTim WintonTimothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....
also declined to have their books nominated for the prize in protest at the involvement of Forestry Tasmania as a sponsor of the Ten Days on the Island festival at which the award winner is to be announced. - Members of The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) voted in their Society's 40th anniversary poll to select Australia's favourite book. Tim WintonTim WintonTimothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....
's CloudstreetCloudstreetCloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, in a suburb of Perth, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963...
headed the poll followed by The Man Who Loved ChildrenThe Man Who Loved ChildrenThe Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. It wasn't until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread critical acclaim and popularity. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language...
by Christina SteadChristina SteadChristina Stead was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations.-Biography:...
and The Fortunes of Richard MahonyThe Fortunes of Richard MahonyThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a three-part novel by Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson. It consists of Australia Felix , The Way Home , and Ultima Thule . It was collected in 1930 under the title by which it is now best known...
by Henry Handel RichardsonHenry Handel RichardsonHenry Handel Richardson, the pseudonym used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, was an Australian author. She took the name "Henry Handel" because at that time, many people did not take women's writing seriously, so she used a male name...
. - Nevil ShuteNevil ShuteNevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...
's 1950 novel, A Town Like AliceA Town Like AliceA Town Like Alice is a novel by the British author Nevil Shute about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war....
was included in a BBC-sponsored UK survey of 100 popular novels, but has failed to make a similar Australian list.
Literary fiction
- Burke's Soldier - Alan Atwood
- My Life as a FakeMy Life as a FakeMy Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine Angry Penguins....
- Peter Carey - Shanghai Dancing - Brian CastroBrian CastroBrian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
- Elizabeth CostelloElizabeth CostelloElizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee.In this novel, Elizabeth Costello, an aging Australian writer, travels around the world and gives lectures on topics including the lives of animals and literary censorship...
- J. M. Coetzee - The Boy - Julian Davies
- Eva's Angel - Garry DisherGarry DisherGarry Disher is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.- Awards :*Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: winner for Chain of Evidence...
- The Bride Stripped Bare - Nikki GemmellNikki GemmellNikki Gemmell is an Australian author, best known for anonymously writing the best-selling erotic novel The Bride Stripped Bare....
- Three Dog NightThree Dog Night (novel)-Dramatic adaptation:In 2008 Petra Kalive adptated this novel for the stage. Its first production was directed by Andrew Gray at Two Blue Cherries Theatre Company at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 14-25 May 2008.-Awards:...
- Peter GoldsworthyPeter GoldsworthyPeter Goldsworthy AM is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti.... - The Great FireThe Great Fire (novel)The Great Fire is the 2003 National Book Award winning novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It also won a 2004 Miles Franklin literary award.-Overview:The New Yorker wrote of the novel:Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating...
- Shirley HazzardShirley HazzardShirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States... - The Accomplice - Kathryn Heyman
- Due Preparations for the Plague - Janette Turner HospitalJanette Turner HospitalJanette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia...
- How the Light Gets In - M. J. HylandM. J. HylandMaria Joan Hyland is a novelist. She made her debut in Australia in 2003 with How the Light Gets In. Her second novel Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and won both the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Prize in 2007...
- Slow WaterSlow Water-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2004: shortlisted*Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2004: winner*Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Deutz Medal For Fiction, 2004: winner-Reviews:*...
- Annamarie JagoseAnnamarie JagoseAnnamarie Jagose is a queer writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD in 1992, and worked in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she is currently Professor in the Department of Film,... - Somewhere, Home - Nada A. Jarrar
- The Tyrant's Novel - Tom Keneally
- Dead Sexy - Kathy LetteKathy LetteKathy Lette is an Australian author who has written a number of bestselling books.Born in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the coauthor of Puberty Blues, a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls...
- Seven Types of Ambiguity - Elliot PerlmanElliot PerlmanElliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...
- Vernon God LittleVernon God LittleVernon God Little is a novel by DBC Pierre. It was his debut novel and won the Booker Prize in 2003.-Plot introduction:The title character is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives in a small town in the U.S. state of Texas...
- D. B. C. PierreD. B. C. PierreDBC Pierre is a writer known for his novel Vernon God Little. The "DBC" part of his nom-de-plume stands for "Dirty But Clean"... - The Five Winds - Patricia Shaw
- The Secret Cure - Sue WoolfeSue WoolfeSue Woolfe is an Australian author, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and documentary film-maker.Woolfe was raised in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and completed tertiary studies at the University of Sydney and the University of New England. Her first novel Painted Woman was runner-up in the ABC...
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- The Earthborn - Paul CollinsPaul Collins (fantasy writer)Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
- The Waterless Sea - Kate ConstableKate ConstableKate Constable is an Australian author. Her first novel was The Singer of All Songs, the first in the Chanters of Tremaris trilogy. It was later followed by The Waterless Sea and The Tenth Power.-Biography:...
- The Dark - Marianne Curley
- Shaedow Master - Justin D'Ath
- GBH - John Heffernan
- Saving Francesca - Melina MarchettaMelina MarchettaMelina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher. She is the middle child of three daughters. Melina is best known as the author of Looking For Alibrandi. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004.- Biography :Melina Marchettaborn in Sydney on 25...
- Finding Cassie Crazy - Jaclyn MoriartyJaclyn MoriartyJaclyn Moriarty is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature.-Biography:Moriarty was raised in the northern suburbs of Sydney. She has five sisters and one brother. Two of her sisters, Liane Moriarty and Nicola, are also novelists. Moriarty studied English at the University...
- AbhorsenAbhorsenAbhorsen is a fantasy novel by Australian writer Garth Nix, first published in 2003. It is the final novel in his Abhorsen trilogy and his third book in the currently five book long planned Old Kingdom series .Abhorsen features Lirael, who is the recently revealed Abhorsen-in-Waiting; Prince...
- Garth NixGarth NixGarth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the... - The Silken Road to Samarkand - Janeen WebbJaneen WebbJaneen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
Crime
- The Vodka Dialogue - Kirsty Brooks
- Appointment at Amalfi - Ian CallinanIan CallinanIan David Francis Callinan, AC, QC is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Education:...
- Degrees of ConnectionDegrees of ConnectionDegrees of Connection is a 2003 Ned Kelly Award winning novel by the Australian author Jon Cleary.-Notes:*Dedication: "For Joy ".*This is the 20th, and so far last, novel in the author's Scobie Malone series....
- Jon ClearyJon ClearyJon Stephen Cleary was an Australian author.-Biography:Cleary was born in Erskineville, Sydney. He wrote many books, among them The Sundowners , a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and The High Commissioner , the first of a long series of popular... - Master's Mates - Peter CorrisPeter CorrisPeter Robert Corris is an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction...
- The Hamilton CaseThe Hamilton CaseThe Hamilton Case is a 2003 novel by Australian author Michelle de Kretser. The book won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Encore Award . The work centres around the lives of the somewhat eccentric Obeysekere family, in particular Sam, and the 1930s setting explores themes of colonization in...
- Michelle de KretserMichelle de KretserMichelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14.She was educated in Melbourne and Paris, and published her first novel, The Rose Grower in 1999... - Kittyhawk Down - Garry DisherGarry DisherGarry Disher is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.- Awards :*Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: winner for Chain of Evidence...
- The Castlemaine Murders: A Phryne Fisher Mystery - Kerry GreenwoodKerry GreenwoodKerry Greenwood is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as...
- Junkie Pilgrim - Wayne Grogan
- Lethal Factor - Gabrielle LordGabrielle LordGabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime. She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers.-Life:Lord was born in Sydney...
- The Verge Practice - Barry MaitlandBarry MaitlandBarry Maitland is an Australian author of crime fiction. After studying architecture at Cambridge, Maitland practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia, where he became a Professor of Architecture with the University of Newcastle...
- Scarecrow - Matthew ReillyMatthew ReillyMatthew John Reilly is an Australian action thriller writer. His novels are noted for their fast pace, twisting plots and intense action.- Biography :...
- Shantaram - Gregory David RobertsGregory David RobertsGregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980, and fled to India where he lived for ten years.-Life:Roberts had become addicted to heroin after his marriage ended,...
- The Suspect - Michael RobothamMichael RobothamMichael Robotham is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist with the Fairfax Press in Sydney he travelled to London and got a job on Fleet Street in 1986. He later became the best-selling pseudonymous author of ten "autobiographies" of people in the arts, Military and sport...
- Murder at the Fortnight - Steve J. Spears
- White DogWhite Dog (novel)White Dog is a 2003 Australian novel by Peter Temple. The fourth novel in the "Jack Irish" series, it won the 2003 Ned Kelly Awards Best Novel for Crime Writing. It was reprinted in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Quercus.-Plot summary:...
- Peter TemplePeter TemplePeter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist... - The Cutting: A Nullin Mystery - Lee TullochLee TullochLee Ann Tulloch is an Australian-born journalist and author.She was born in Melbourne, and has a degree in English Literature from Melbourne University. She has worked as a researcher in Federal Politics. She was arts features editor for Vogue Australia from 1978 to 1982, and editor-in-chief of...
- The Forger - Robin Wallace-Crabbe
Romance
- The Wedding Wish - Ally Blake
- Englishman at Dingo Creek - Lucy Clark
- A Wedding at Windaroo - Barbara Hannay
- A Gentleman's Honor - Stephanie Laurens
- Barra Creek - Di MorrisseyDi MorrisseyDi Morrissey is one of Australia's most popular female novelists. She grew up in the remote surrounds of Pittwater, north of Sydney, Australia....
- Beyond Sunrise - Candice R. Proctor
- Outback Encounter - Meredith Webber
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Jennifer Government - Max BarryMax BarryMax Barry is a contemporary Australian author. He also maintains a blog on various topics, including writing, marketing and politics...
- Orbital Burn - K. A. Bedford
- The Etched City - Kirsten BishopKirsten BishopKirsten Bishop is a voice actress best known for her roles as Zoycite, Emerald, Kaorinite, Telulu and Badiyanu in the English version of Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Super S: The Movie.-Filmography:...
- An Evil Hour - Russell BlackfordRussell BlackfordRussell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
- The High Lord - Trudi CanavanTrudi CanavanTrudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...
- God's Concubine - Sara Douglass
- Eye of the Labyrinth - Jennifer FallonJennifer FallonJennifer Fallon is an Australian fantasy/ science fiction author. She is also a businesswoman, trainer and business consultant. Her residence is in Oxford, New Zealand.-Biography:...
- Lord of the Shadows - Jennifer FallonJennifer FallonJennifer Fallon is an Australian fantasy/ science fiction author. She is also a businesswoman, trainer and business consultant. Her residence is in Oxford, New Zealand.-Biography:...
- Grass for his Pillow - Lian Hearn
- Terminator Gene - Ian IrvineIan IrvineIan Irvine is an Australian fantasy and eco-thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries and continues to write full-time.- Career :Irvine was born in...
- Born of the Sea - Victor KelleherVictor KelleherVictor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa,...
- The Aware - Glenda Larke
- Myrren's Gift - Fiona McIntosh
- The Lamplighter - Anthony O'Neill
- Blue Box - Kate Orman
- Freedom - Tony Shillitoe
- The Autumn Castle - Kim WilkinsKim WilkinsKim Wilkins is an Australian writer of popular fiction based in Brisbane, Queensland. She is the author of several mass-market novels, including her debut horror novel, The Infernal , which won Aurealis Awards for both horror and fantasy...
- Heirs of Earth - Sean Williams and Shane DixShane DixShane Dix is an Australian science fiction author best known for his collaborative work with Sean Williams in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series.His daughter Katelin Dix is also an author, with promising work in both teenage and fantasy fiction....
Drama
- White Gifts - Mireille Juchau
- Inheritance - Hannie RaysonHannie Rayson-Biography:Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Arts. She has worked as a freelance journalist and editor in addition to her primary career as playwright and screenwriter. Rayson was the co-founder of the community...
- One Life, Two Journeys - Henri SzepsHenri SzepsHenri Szeps OAM is an Australian actor best known for his role as Robert Beare in the ABC situation comedy series Mother and Son.-Early life:...
- Birthrights - David WilliamsonDavid WilliamsonDavid Keith Williamson AO is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.-Biography:...
Poetry
- Wolf Notes - Judith BeveridgeJudith BeveridgeJudith Beveridge is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic.-Biography:Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration...
- Mangroves - Laurie DugganLaurie DugganLaurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...
- Peripheral Light - John Kinsella
Non-fiction
- That Oceanic Feeling - Fiona Capp
- Dancing with Strangers' - Inga ClendinnenInga ClendinnenInga Vivienne Clendinnen AO is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.-Life and career:Born in Geelong, Victoria, Clendinnen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a BA...
- Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area - Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford
- They Took the Children - David Hollinsworth
- The History Wars - Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark
- A Death in Brazil - Peter RobbPeter RobbPeter Robb is an Australian author.Robb spent his formative years in Australia and New Zealand, and between 1978 and 1992 he spent most of his time in Naples and southern Italy, interspersed with sojourns in Brazil. At the end of 1992 he returned to Sydney.His first book, Midnight in Sicily, was...
Biographies
- King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy - Graeme BlundellGraeme BlundellGraeme Blundell is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer and biographer.Blundell was born in Melbourne; he grew up in Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne...
- Gordon of Dingley Dell: The Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870): Poet and Horseman - Lorraine Day
- Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834) - Edward DuykerEdward DuykerEdward Duyker is an Australian historian and author born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a father from the Netherlands and a mother from Mauritius...
- The Snowy Baker Story - Greg Growden
- Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession - Barry HillBarry Hill (writer)Barry Hill is an Australian historian, poet, journalist and academic.Hill was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne gaining his Bachelor of Arts , Bachelor of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy and from there went to London where he gained his Master of Arts ...
- Abraham Lincoln - Tom Keneally
- Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing : The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell - Jonathan King
- Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett - Gary Linell
- Pushing Time Away : My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna - Peter SingerPeter SingerPeter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
- Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook - Nicholas Thomas
- Bluestocking in Patagonia - Anne Whitehead
Lifetime achievement
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| Patrick White Award Patrick White Award The Patrick White Award is an annual literary prize established by Patrick White. White used his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature award to establish a trust for this prize.... |
Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia... |
International
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| Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website... |
Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Sonya Hartnett Sonya Hartnett Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen... |
Of a Boy Of a Boy Of a Boy is a 2002 novel by Sonya Hartnett about a lonely and troubled youth.The omnipresent narrator follows the plight of Adrian, a 9 year old child, who was taken away from his mother as she was "unfit to care for him". Adrian spends his days thinking of things that unsettle him such as sea... |
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National
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| The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival... |
Fiction | Sonya Hartnett Sonya Hartnett Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen... |
Of a Boy Of a Boy Of a Boy is a 2002 novel by Sonya Hartnett about a lonely and troubled youth.The omnipresent narrator follows the plight of Adrian, a 9 year old child, who was taken away from his mother as she was "unfit to care for him". Adrian spends his days thinking of things that unsettle him such as sea... |
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| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award The Australian/Vogel Literary Award The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia... |
Nicholas Angel | Drown Them in the Sea | Allen and Unwin | |
| Ruth Balint | Troubled Waters | Allen and Unwin | ||
| Colin Roderick Award Colin Roderick Award The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presented in 1967 and currently has a prize of A$10,000.... |
Tom Keneally | The Tyrant's Novel | Doubleday | |
| Miles Franklin Award Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ... |
Alex Miller Alex Miller (writer) Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965... |
Journey to the Stone Country Journey to the Stone Country Journey to the Stone Country is a 2002 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:*Tasmania Pacific Region Prize, Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize, 2005: shortlisted... |
Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was... |
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| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities... |
Fiction | Kate Jennings Kate Jennings Kate Jennings is an Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist.-Life:Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. She attended the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours... |
Moral Hazard Moral Hazard (novel) -Awards:*Festival Awards for Literature , Dymocks Booksellers Award for Fiction, 2004: winner*New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2003: winner*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2003: shortlisted... |
Fourth Estate HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award Nita Kibble Literary Award The Kibble Literary Awards comprise two awards which are presented annually: the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female writer, and the Dobbie Literary Award, which is for a first published work by a female writer. The Awards recognise the works... |
Gail Jones Gail Jones Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia... |
Black Mirror | Picador Picador (imprint) Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.... |
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| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Queensland Premier's Literary Awards The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.-Fiction Book... |
Fiction | Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia... |
Due Preparations For The Plague | HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Premier's Literary Award The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry.... |
Fiction | Brian Castro Brian Castro Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.... |
Shanghai Dancing | Giramondo Publishing Giramondo Publishing Giramondo Publishing is an Australian small press. It is a publisher of Australian literary writing and also published HEAT magazine until its closure in 2011.... |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Western Australian Premier's Book Awards The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia... |
Fiction | Gail Jones Gail Jones Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia... |
Black Mirror | Picador Picador (imprint) Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.... |
National
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| Children's Book of the Year Award Children's Book Council of Australia The Children's Book Council of Australia is a not for profit organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. The CBCA presents annual awards for books of literary merit, for outstanding contribution to Australian children's literature.-Awards:The first... |
Older Readers Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers The Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers has been presented annually since 1946 by the Children's Book Council of Australia . Note: from 1946 to 1986 this award was known as "Book of the Year".... |
Markus Zusak Markus Zusak Markus Zusak is an Australian author. He is best known for his books The Book Thief and The Messenger , which have been international bestsellers.- Career :... |
The Messenger I Am the Messenger The Messenger is a 2002 novel by Markus Zusak, and winner of the 2003 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award.The Messenger was released in the United States under the name I Am the Messenger. The entire story is written through the eyes of the main character, Ed Kennedy, who... |
Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:... |
| Younger Readers Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers The Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers has been presented annually since 1982 by the Children's Book Council of Australia... |
Catherine Bateson Catherine Bateson Catherine Bateson Brisbane, Australia. She is an Australian writer.Catherine Bateson grew up in a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane. She attained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, with a major in art history.... |
Rain May and Captain Daniel | University of Queensland Press University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance... |
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| Picture Book Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book The Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book has been presented annually since 1955 by the Children's Book Council of Australia .The Award "will be made to outstanding books of the Picture Book genre in which the author and illustrator achieve artistic and literary unity, or, in wordless... |
Norman Jorgensen, illus. Brian Harrison-Lever | In Flanders Fields | Fremantle Arts Centre Press Fremantle Arts Centre Press Fremantle Press is an independent publisher in Western Australia. Fremantle Press was established by the Fremantle Arts Centre in 1976... |
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| Early Childhood Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood The Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood has been presented annually since 2001 by the Children's Book Council of Australia .... |
Penny Matthews, illus. Andrew McLean | A Year on Our Farm | Omnibus Books | |
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Children's | Simon French | Where in the World | Little Hare Books |
| Young People's | Markus Zusak Markus Zusak Markus Zusak is an Australian author. He is best known for his books The Book Thief and The Messenger , which have been international bestsellers.- Career :... |
The Messenger I Am the Messenger The Messenger is a 2002 novel by Markus Zusak, and winner of the 2003 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award.The Messenger was released in the United States under the name I Am the Messenger. The entire story is written through the eyes of the main character, Ed Kennedy, who... |
Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:... |
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| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Queensland Premier's Literary Awards The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.-Fiction Book... |
Children's | Catherine Bateson Catherine Bateson Catherine Bateson Brisbane, Australia. She is an Australian writer.Catherine Bateson grew up in a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane. She attained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, with a major in art history.... |
Rain May and Captain Daniel | University of Queensland Press University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance... |
| Young Adult | David Metzenthen | Boys of Blood and Bone | Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large... |
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| Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Premier's Literary Award The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry.... |
Young Adult Fiction | Margo Lanagan Margo Lanagan Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black... |
Black Juice | Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was... |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Western Australian Premier's Book Awards The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia... |
Writing for Young Adults | Colin Bowles | Nights in the Sun | Penguin Books Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large... |
| Children's | Mark Greenwood | The Legend of Lasseter's Reef | Cygnet Books | |
National
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| Davitt Award Davitt Award The Davitt Awards are presented by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are presented for Australian crime fiction, by women, for both adults and young adults. They were established in 2001.-Previous winners:... |
Novel | Gabrielle Lord Gabrielle Lord Gabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime. She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers.-Life:Lord was born in Sydney... |
Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing | Hodder Headline Australia |
| Alex Palmer | Blood Redemption | HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... |
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| Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Peter Temple Peter Temple Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist... |
White Dog White Dog (novel) White Dog is a 2003 Australian novel by Peter Temple. The fourth novel in the "Jack Irish" series, it won the 2003 Ned Kelly Awards Best Novel for Crime Writing. It was reprinted in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Quercus.-Plot summary:... |
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| First novel | Alex Palmer | Blood Redemption | HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... |
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Science Fiction
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| Aurealis Award Aurealis Award Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award.-History:... |
Sf Novel | Damien Broderick Damien Broderick Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the... |
Transcension | Tor Books Tor Books Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. The company was founded... |
| Sf Short Story | Sean McMullen Sean McMullen Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature... |
"Walk to the Full Moon" | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | |
| Fantasy Novel | Sean Williams | The Storm Weaver and the Sand | HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... |
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| Horror Novel | A. L. McCann | The White Body of Evening | HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... |
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| Horror Short Story | Kim Westwood | "Oracle | Redsine #9 | |
| Young Adult Novel | Sophie Masson Sophie Masson Sophie Masson is a French-Australian fantasy and children's author.-Biography:Sophie Masson was born in Indonesia of French parents who are of mixed ancestry... |
The Hand of Glory | Hodder Headline Hodder Headline Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing company. It was founded in 1986 by Tim Hely Hutchinson, and acquired Hodder & Stoughton in 1992 to form Hodder Headline. It was acquired by Hachette Livre, from the WHSmith Group PLC, in 2005.... |
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| Ditmar Award Ditmar Award The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom... |
Novel | Sean Williams and Shane Dix Shane Dix Shane Dix is an Australian science fiction author best known for his collaborative work with Sean Williams in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series.His daughter Katelin Dix is also an author, with promising work in both teenage and fantasy fiction.... |
Echoes of Earth | HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... |
| Short Fiction | Deborah Biancotti | "King of All and The Metal Sentinel" | Agog! Fantastic Fiction | |
| Collected Work | Cat Sparks ed. | Agog! Fantastic Fiction | Agog! Press | |
Non-Fiction
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| The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival... |
Non-Fiction | Ann Galbally | Charles Condor: The Last Bohemian | Miegunyah Press |
| National Biography Award National Biography Award The National Biography Award, established in Australia in 1996, is awarded for the best published work of biographical or autobiographical writing by an Australian. It aims "to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in those genres". It... |
Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was... |
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| Don Watson Don Watson Don Watson is an Australian author and public speaker.-Biography:Watson grew up on a farm in Gippsland, took his undergraduate degree at La Trobe University and a Ph.D at Monash University and was for ten years an academic historian. He wrote three books on Australian history before turning his... |
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : a Portrait of Paul Keating PM | Random House Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,... |
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| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities... |
Non-Fiction | Mark McKenna | Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place | University of New South Wales Press |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards New South Wales Premier's History Awards The State Government of New South Wales, Australia established the Premier's History Awards in 1997. In 2005 the name of the awards was changed to NSW History Awards... |
Australian History | James Bowen and Margarita Bowen | The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage |
Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world... |
| Community and Regional History | Erik Eklund | Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla | Melbourne University Press | |
| General History | David Garrioch | The Making of Revolutionary Paris | University of California Press University of California Press University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868... |
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| Young People's | Alan Tucker | My Story: The Bombing of Darwin, The Diary of Tom Taylor | Scholastic Press Scholastic Press Scholastic is a global book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the exclusive United States' publishing rights to the Harry Potter book... |
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| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Queensland Premier's Literary Awards The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.-Fiction Book... |
Non-fiction | Margaret Simons | Meeting of the Waters | Hachette Australia |
| History | Richard Bosworth | Mussolini | Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as... |
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| Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Premier's Literary Award The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry.... |
Non-fiction | Graeme Davison | Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities | Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was... |
Poetry
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| The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival... |
Laurie Duggan Laurie Duggan Laurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize... |
Mangroves | University of Queensland Press University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance... |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry Grace Leven Prize for Poetry The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is an annual award given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work"... |
Stephen Edgar Stephen Edgar Stephen Edgar is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and indexer.-Background and education:Edgar was born in Sydney in 1951 where he attended Sydney Technical High School. Between 1971 and 1974 he lived in London and worked as a library assistant in the London Borough of Lambeth... |
Lost in the Foreground | Duffy & Snellgrove |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities... |
Jill Jones Jill Jones (poet) Jill Jones is a poet and writer living in Sydney, Australia.In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Prize for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star . Her third book, The Book of Possibilities , was published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the... |
Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems | Salt Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Premier's Literary Award The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry.... |
Emma Lew Emma Lew Emma Lew is a contemporary Australian poet.Born in Melbourne, Emma Lew studied arts at Melbourne University and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof-reader, and clerical assistant, only beginning to write poetry in 1993. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in... |
Anything the Landlord Touches | Giramondo Publishing Giramondo Publishing Giramondo Publishing is an Australian small press. It is a publisher of Australian literary writing and also published HEAT magazine until its closure in 2011.... |
Deaths
- 16 March - Susan McGowan, poet (b. 1907)
- 18 March - Julie Lewis, short story writer (b. 1925)
- 30 March - Nick EnrightNick Enright-Life:He was drama captain of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in 1964, where, like Gerard Windsor and Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. At that school, he won the 1sts Debating Premiership in both 1966 and 1967....
, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1950) - 2 April - Joan PhipsonJoan PhipsonJoan Margaret Phipson was an award-winning Australian children's writer. She lived on a farm in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales and many of her books evoke the stress and satisfaction of living in the Australian countryside, floods, bushfires, drought and all...
, writer for children and young adults (b. 1912) - 20 April - Bill Wannan, editor (b. 1915)
- 1 May - Stephen Estaban Kelen, dramatist (b. 1912)
- 28 June - C.B. Christesen, poet and founding editor of Meanjin (b. 1911)
- 23 November - Hesba Brinsmead, writer for children (b. 1922)
See also
- LiteratureLiteratureLiterature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of Australian literary awards