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 publicationsβ»
Literary fictionβ»
- Tony Birch β The White Girl
- David Brooks β The Grass Library
- Steven Carroll β The Year of theββBeast
- Melanie Cheng β Room for a Stranger
- Peggy Frew β Islands
- Peter Goldsworthy β Minotaur
- John Hughes β No One
- Anna Krien β Act of Grace
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie β The Erratics
- Melina Marchetta β The Place on Dalhousie
- Andrew McGahan β The Rich Man's House (posthumous)
- Gerald Murnane β A Season on Earth
- Favel Parrett β There Was Still Love
- Heather Rose β Bruny
- Philip Slalom β The Returns
- Carrie Tiffany β Exploded View
- Lucy Treloar β Wolfe Island
- Christos Tsiolkas β Damascus
- Tara June Winch β The Yield
- Charlotte Wood β The Weekend
Short storiesβ»
- Debra Adelaide β Zebra and other stories
- Yumna Kassab β The House of Youssef
- Josephine Rowe β Here Until August
Children's and young adult fictionβ»
- Mem Fox β The Tiny Star
- Helena Fox β How It Feelsββto Float
- Will Kostakis β Monuments
- Tania McCartney β Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures
- Meg McKinlay β Catch a Falling Star
- Bruce Pascoe β Young Dark Emu
- Holden Sheppard β Invisible Boys
- Vikki Wakefield β This is How We Change the Ending
Crimeβ»
- Matthew Condon β The Night Dragon
- Pip Drysdale β The Strangers We Know
- Candice Fox β Gone By Midnight
- Nick Gadd β Death of a Typographer
- Tara Moss β Dead Man Switch
- Dave Warner β River of Salt
- Christian White β The Wife and the Widow
Science fictionβ»
- John Birmingham β The Cruel Stars
- Claire G. Coleman β The Old Lie
- Greg Egan
- The Best of Greg Egan
- Perihelion Summer
- Garth Nix β Angel Mage
Poetryβ»
- Louise Crisp β Yuiquimbiang
- Zenobia Frost β After the Demolition
- Charmaine Papertalk Green β Nganajungu Yagu
- L. K. Holt β Birth Plan
- Gerald Murnane β Green Shadows and Other Poems
- Pi O β Heide
Non-fictionβ»
- Jane Caro β Accidental Feminists
- Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) β Growing Up African in Australia
- Stan Grant
- Australia Day
- On Identity
- Nicholas Hasluck β Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir
- Jess Hill β See What You Made Me Do
- Jacqueline Kent, Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook
- Caro Llewellyn β Diving into Glass
- Emily Maguire β This is What a Feminist Looks Like
- Bianca Nogrady (editor) β The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
- Christina Thompson β Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Awards and honoursβ»
Note: these awards were presented in the "year in question."
Lifetime achievementβ»
Award | Author |
---|---|
Patrick White Award | Jordie Albiston |
Literaryβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
ALS Gold Medal | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Vagabond Press |
Colin Roderick Award | Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Hamish Hamilton |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc |
Stella Prize | Vicki Laveau-Harvie | The Erratics | Fourth Estate |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains | Belvoir and Co-Curious |
Fictionβ»
Nationalβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Not awarded | ||
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Not awarded | ||
Barbara Jefferis Award | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year β Fiction | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Picador |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year β Debut Fiction | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
Miles Franklin Award | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | University of Queensland Press |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Gail Jones | The Death of Noah Glass | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
Queensland Literary Awards | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Text Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Elise Valmorbida | The Madonna of the Mountains | Faber & Faber |
Children and Young Adultβ»
Nationalβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book of the Year Award | 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 | James Moloney | |||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | 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 | 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 | Young Adult Fiction | Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina | Catching Teller Crow | Allen & Unwin |
Crime and Mysteryβ»
Nationalβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award | Novel | Dervla McTiernan | The RΓΊin | 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 | Novel | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan |
First novel | Dervla McTiernan | The RΓΊin | HarperCollins | |
True crime | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Allen & Unwin | |
Lifetime achievement | Bob Bottom |
Science fictionβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ditmar Award | Novel | Sam Hawke | City of Lies (Poison Wars 1) | Tor Books |
Best Novella/Novelette | Tansy Rayner Roberts | Cabaret of Monsters | self-published | |
Best Short Story | Kathleen Jennings | "The Heart of Owl Abbas" | Tor.com |
Poetryβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award | Eunice Andrada | Flood Damages | Giramondo |
Mary Gilmore Award | Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | Cordite |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Judith Bishop | Interval | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Kate Lilley | Tilt | Vagabond Press |
Dramaβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Script | Benjamin Gilmour | Jirga | Felix Media Pty Ltd |
Play | Kendall Feaver | The Almighty Sometimes | Griffin Theatre |
Non-Fictionβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | 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 | Biography | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Billy Griffiths (joint winner) | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc. |
Sarah Krasnostein (joint winner) | The Trauma Cleaner: One Womanβs Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing | ||
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | 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 | Non-Fiction | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Scribe |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
Deathsβ»
- 20 January β Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born 1938)
- 1 February β Andrew McGahan, novelist (born 1966)
- 4 March β Les Carlyon, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (born 1942)
- 13 March β Edmund Capon, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London)
- 15 March β Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria)
- 22 March β Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (born 1927)
- 29 April β Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born 1938)
- 19 May β John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (born 1921)
- 1 June β Christobel Mattingley, writer for children and young adults (born 1931)
- 13 July β Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author (born 1956)
- 21 July β
- Laurie Hergenhan, literary scholar (born 1931)
- Ann Moyal, historian of science (born 1926)
- 10 September β Hal Colebatch, poet and novelist (born 1945)
- 30 October β Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born 1939)
- 24 November β Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died in Cambridge, England)(born 1939)
See alsoβ»
- 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
Referencesβ»
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- ^ "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.
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- ^ "Gone By Midnight by Candice Fox". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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