2019_in_Australian_literature
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.
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Literary fiction
- Tony Birch – The White Girl
- David Brooks – The Grass Library
- Steven Carroll – The Year of the Beast
- Melanie Cheng – Room for a Stranger
- Peggy Frew – Islands
- Peter Goldsworthy – Minotaur
- John Hughes – No One
- Anna Krien – Act of Grace
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie – The Erratics
- Melina Marchetta – The Place on Dalhousie
- Andrew McGahan – The Rich Man's House (posthumous)
- Gerald Murnane – A Season on Earth
- Favel Parrett – There Was Still Love
- Heather Rose – Bruny
- Philip Slalom – The Returns
- Carrie Tiffany – Exploded View
- Lucy Treloar – Wolfe Island
- Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus
- Tara June Winch – The Yield
- Charlotte Wood – The Weekend
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
- Will Kostakis – Monuments
- Tania McCartney – Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures
- Meg McKinlay – Catch a Falling Star
- Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu
- Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys
- Vikki Wakefield – This is How We Change the Ending
Crime
- Matthew Condon – The Night Dragon
- Candice Fox – Gone By Midnight
- Tara Moss – Dead Man Switch
Science fiction
Poetry
- Louise Crisp – Yuiquimbiang
- Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu
- L. K. Holt – Birth Plan
- Gerald Murnane – Green Shadows and Other Poems
- Pi O – Heide
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
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Literary
More information Award, Author ...
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[2] | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Vagabond Press |
| Colin Roderick Award[3] | Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Hamish Hamilton |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc |
| Stella Prize[5] | Vicki Laveau-Harvie | The Erratics | Fourth Estate |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[6] | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains | Belvoir and Co-Curious |
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Fiction
National
More information Award, Author ...
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[7] | Not awarded | ||
| Barbara Jefferis Award[8] | Not awarded | ||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[9] | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Picador |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[9] | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
| Miles Franklin Award[10] | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | University of Queensland Press |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[11] | Gail Jones | The Death of Noah Glass | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
| Queensland Literary Awards[13] | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Text Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Elise Valmorbida | The Madonna of the Mountains | Faber & Faber |
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Children and Young Adult
National
More information Award, Category ...
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[15] | 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[16] | James Moloney | |||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | 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[14] | Young Adult Fiction | Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina | Catching Teller Crow | Allen & Unwin |
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Crime and Mystery
National
More information Award, Category ...
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[17] | 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[18] | 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 | |||
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Science fiction
More information Award, Category ...
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ditmar Award[19] | 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 | |
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Non-Fiction
More information Award, Category ...
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Biography Award[20] | Biography | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[9] | Non-Fiction | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist | Random House Australia |
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Marcia Langton | Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country | Hardie Grant Travel | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | 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[21] | 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[13] | Non-Fiction | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Scribe |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Non-Fiction | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
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Poetry
More information Award, Author ...
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award[22] | Eunice Andrada | Flood Damages | Giramondo |
| Mary Gilmore Award[23] | Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | Cordite |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Judith Bishop | Interval | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Kate Lilley | Tilt | Vagabond Press |
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Drama
More information Award, Category ...
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Script | Benjamin Gilmour | Jirga | Felix Media Pty Ltd |
| Play | Kendall Feaver | The Almighty Sometimes | Griffin Theatre |
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- 20 January – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born 1938)[24]
- 1 February – Andrew McGahan, novelist (born 1966)[25]
- 4 March – Les Carlyon, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (born 1942)[26]
- 13 March – Edmund Capon, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London)[27]
- 15 March – Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria)[28]
- 22 March – Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (born 1927)[29]
- 29 April – Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born 1938)[30]
- 19 May – John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (born 1921)[31]
- 1 June – Christobel Mattingley, writer for children and young adults (born 1931)[32]
- 13 July – Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author (born 1956)[33]
- 21 July –
- 10 September – Hal Colebatch, poet and novelist (born 1945)[36]
- 30 October – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born 1939)[37]
- 24 November – Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died in Cambridge, England)(born 1939)[38]
- "Albiston wins 2019 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- Jefferson, Dee (29 April 2019). "'I wanted to help change the conversation': History of Aboriginal archaeology wins literary prize". ABC News. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- The 2019 Stella Prize. Retrieved 9 April 2019
- "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- "No Vogel to be awarded this year". Books+Publishing. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2019"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- Bookshelf, ABC Arts Kate Evans for RN's The (30 July 2019). "Miles Franklin awarded to Indigenous author for 'novel of celebratory defiance'". ABC News. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- "Winners announced for PM's Literary Awards 2019". Books+Publishing. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- Dee Jefferson (29 April 2019). "'I wanted to help change the conversation': History of Aboriginal archaeology wins literary prize". ABC News. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- Qian, Jinghua. "Winners announced for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 29 December 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- "CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- "Moloney wins 2019 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- "'The Ruin' wins best novel at 2019 Davitt Awards". Books+Publishing. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- Steger, Jason (6 September 2019). "Women crime writers clean up at the Ned Kelly awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- Newcombe, Ion (11 June 2019). "Ditmar Award Winners 2019". The Australian Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- "'Impassioned letter' from Manus Island wins 2019 National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- Guardian staff (30 August 2019). "Guardian Australia's The Killing Times wins prize in NSW premier's history awards". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- "Andrada wins Anne Elder Award 2018 for 'Flood Damages'". Books+Publishing. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- "Mudrooroo". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Austlit - Andrew McGahan". Austlit. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- "Les Carlyon". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Edmund George Capon". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Rudi Krausmann". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Remembering Jack Absalom". AnArt4Life. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Les Murray". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "John Millett Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- "Christobel Mattingley". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Kerry Reed-Gilbert". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- Fotheringham, Richard. "Laurie Hergenhan". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- Clarke, Patricia. "Ann Veronica Moyal". Obituaries Australia. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Hal Colebatch". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- Mathews, Iola. "Obituary - Beatrice Eileen (Bea) Faust - Obituaries Australia". oa.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Clive James". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.