Literature-related events in Australia during the: year of 2022
This is: a list of historical events. And publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Major publicationsβ»
Literary fictionβ»
- Robbie Arnott β Limberlost
- Jessica Au β Cold Enough for Snow
- Jane Caro β The Mother
- Steven Carroll β Goodnight, "Vivienne," Goodnight
- Shankari Chandran β Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)
- Robert Drewe β Nimblefoot
- Katerina Gibson β Women I Know (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction)
- Yumna Kassab β The Lovers
- Robert Lukins β Loveland
- Fiona McFarlane β The Sun Walks Down
- Fiona Kelly McGregor β Iris
- Paddy O'Reilly β Other Houses
- Edwina Preston β Bad Art Mother
- Craig Sherborne β The Grass Hotel
- Steve Toltz β Here Goes Nothing
Short story collectionsβ»
- Mirandi Riwoe β The Burnished Sun
Crime and mysteryβ»
- Shelley Burr β Wake
- Aoife Clifford β When We Fall
- Chris Hammer β The Tilt
- Jane Harper β Exiles
- Sally Hepworth β The Soulmate
- Katherine Kovacic β Seven Sisters
- Tracey Lien β All That's Left Unsaid
- Dervla McTiernan β The Murder Rule
- Michael Robotham β Lying Beside You
- Emma Viskic β Those Who Perish
- Greg Woodland β The Carnival is Over
Science fiction and fantasyβ»
- Eugen Bacon β Mage of Fools
- Grace Chan β Every Version of You
- Sean McMullen β Generation Nemesis
- Jane Rawson β A History of Dreams
- Angela Slatter β The Path of Thorns
Children's and young adult fictionβ»
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by, Maxine Beneba Clarke β 11 Words for Love
- Lian Tanner β Ritaβs Revenge
- Gabrielle Wang β Zadie Ma and theββDog Who Chased the Moon
Poetryβ»
- Adam Aitken β Revenants
- Boey Kim Cheng β The Singer and Other Poems
- Marion May Campbell β Languish
- Lionel Fogarty β Harvest Lingo
- Lisa Gorton β Mirabilia
- Sarah Holland-Batt β The Jaguar
- John Kinsella β The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980β2005)
- Les Murray β Continuous Creation
- Rae White β Exactly As I Am
Non-Fictionβ»
- Alison Bashford β An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
- Debra Dank β We Come With This Place
- Jo Dyer β Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics
- Madonna King β L Platers:Howββto support your teen daughter on the roadββto adulthood
- Louisa Lim β Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
- Julianne Schultz β The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation
Memoirβ»
- Hannah Gadsby β Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation
- Anita Heiss β Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On
- Chloe Hooper β Bedtime Story
- Anita Jacoby β Secrets Beyond the Screen
- Wendy McCarthy β Don't Be Too Polite, Girls
- Brenda Niall β My Accidental Career
- Heather Rose β Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
Awards and honoursβ»
Note: these awards were presented in the "year in question."
Lifetime achievementβ»
Award | Author |
---|---|
Patrick White Award | Antigone Kefala |
Literaryβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
ALS Gold Medal | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Giramondo Publishing |
Colin Roderick Award | Emily Bitto | Wild Abandon | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive: Notes from Australiaβs Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press |
Stella Prize | Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Veronica Gorrie | Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience | Scribe |
Fictionβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Penguin |
The Age Book of the Year | Miles Allinson | In Moonland | Scribe |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Nell Pierce | A Place Near Eden | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award | S. L. Lim | Revenge: Murder in Three Parts | Transit Lounge Publishing |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year β Fiction | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year β Debut Fiction | Lyn Yeowart | The Silent Listener | Viking |
Miles Franklin Award | Jennifer Down | Bodies of Light | Text |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven | Text |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | UQP |
Queensland Literary Awards | Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Hachette Australia |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Melisa Manning | Smokehouse | UQP |
Children and Young Adultβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | Allen & Unwin |
Younger Readers | Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | Puffin | |
Picture Book | Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft | Iceberg | Allen & Unwin | |
Early Childhood | Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville | Jetty Jumping | Hardie Grant | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press | |
Lifetime Achievement | Margaret Wild | |||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Children's | Katrina Nannestad | Rabbit, "Soldier," Angel, Thief | ABC Books |
Young Adult | Danielle Binks | The Monster of Her Age | Lothian | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | UQP |
Young People's | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Children's | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Magabala Books |
Young Adult | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Young Adult Fiction | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan |
Crime and Mysteryβ»
Nationalβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award | Novel | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
Young adult novel | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text Publishing | |
Children's novel | Nicki Greenberg | The Detectiveβs Guide to Ocean Travel | Affirm Press | |
Non-fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc | |
Debut novel | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
Readers' choice | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Candice Fox | The Chase | Bantam Books |
First novel | Josh Kemp | Banjawarn | UWA Publishing | |
True crime | Debi Marshall | Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders | Vintage Books |
Poetryβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Jodie Albiston | Fifteeners | Puncher & Wattmann |
Anne Elder Award | Audrey Molloy | The Important Things | Gallery Press |
Mary Gilmore Award | Jelena Dinic | In the Room with the She Wolf | Wakefield Press |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Giramondo Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | Vagabond Press |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Hunter |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | University of Queensland Press |
Dramaβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Script | Shaun Grant | NITRAM | |
Play | Kirsty Marillier | Orange Thrower | Currency Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk |
Non-Fictionβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Non-Fiction | Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Fourth Estate |
The Age Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | Bennadette Brennan | Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Amber Creswell Bell | Still Life | Thames and Hudson | |
National Biography Award | Biography | Bernadette Brennan | Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Alexis Bergantz | French Connection: Australiaβs Cosmopolitan Ambitions | NewSouth Publishing |
Community and Regional History | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. | |
General History | Mina Roces | The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change | Cornell University Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Ultimo Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | Pan |
Deathsβ»
- 22 January β Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933)
- 5 February β John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935)
- 1 March β Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961)
- 8 March β Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50)
- 19 March β Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934)
- 29 April β Craig Powell, poet (born 1940)
- 2 June β Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer (born 1936)
- 26 June β Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938)
- 14 July β Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939)
- 26 July β David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927)
- 27 July β Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942)
- 3 August
- Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925)
- Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931)
- 12 August β Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937)
- 29 August β Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940)
- 20 September β Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927)
- 8 October β Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964)
- 17 October β Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938)
- 24 November β Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941)
- 2 December
- Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)
- Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935)
- 16 December β Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)
- December β Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (born 1952)
See alsoβ»
- 2022 in Australia
- 2022 in literature
- 2022 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
Referencesβ»
- ^ "The Mother by Jane Caro". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight by Stephen Carroll". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ Burke, Kelly (25 July 2023). "Shankari Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin award for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ "Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ Jefferson, Dee (22 May 2023). "One book just won a record four out of 14 prizes at $350,000 NSW literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ^ "The Lovers by Yumna Kassab". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Loveland by Robert Lukins". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Iris by Fiona McGregor". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Other Houses by Paddy O'Reilly". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Wake by Shelley Burr". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "When We Fall by Aoife Clifford". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "The Tilt by Chris Hammer". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "Austlit β All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien". Austlit. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "The Carnival is Over by Greg Woodland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "Mage of Fools by Eugen Bacon". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ "Every Version of You by Grace Chan". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ "Generation Nemesis by Sean McMullen". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ "A History of Dreams by Jane Rawson". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ "The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter". ISFDB. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- ^ "11 Words for Love by Randa Abdel-Fattah". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Rita's Revenge by Lian Tanner". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon by Gabrielle Wang". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Revenants by". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "The Singer and Other Poems by Boey Kim Cheng". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Languish by Marion May Campbell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Mirabilia by Lisa Gorton". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "The Ascension of Sheep by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Continuous Creation by Les Murray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Exactly As I Am by Rae White". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "We Come With This Place by Debra Dank". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "Burning Down the House by". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "L Platers by". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "Indelible City by". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "The Idea of Australia by Julianne Schultz". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ ""Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On"". Charles Darwin University Bookshop. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Secrets Beyond the Screen by Anita Jacoby". Austlit. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Don't Be Too Polite, Girls by Wendy McCarthy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 24 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal β Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award β Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2022"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "Still Alive: Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System. Book of the Year 2022 Winner. Judges' Comments". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ Wright, Fiona (28 April 2022). "Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: 'I was one paycheck away from complete poverty'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Gorrie wins 2022 Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature β Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
- ^ ""'It threw me sideways!' The Age book of the year winners announced"". The Age, 8 September 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "'A Place Near Eden' wins 2022 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Story, Hannah (20 July 2022). "Winner of $60,000 literary award draws attention to systemic abuses in Australian out-of-home care". ABC News. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ Burke, Kelly (13 December 2022). "Prime Minister's Literary awards 2022: Nicolas Rothwell and Mark Willacy win major prizes". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
- ^ Cain, Sian (16 May 2022). "'Unflinching': Villawood graphic novel wins book of the year at NSW premier's literary awards". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ Burke, Kelly (13 October 2022). "Queensland Literary awards: winners list reflects 'a moment of change for the nation'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ "CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards". Books+Publishing. 23 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
- ^ "2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Margaret Wild". The Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ "Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "Ned Kelly Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ ""Mary Gilmore Award"". ASAL. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards winners for 2022". Queensland Government. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ "National Biography Award winner announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Sydney. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ "NSW Premier's History Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
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- ^ "Edwin WILSON: Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ "Bruce Alexander Grant Death Notice β Melbourne, Victoria | The Age". tributes.theage.com.au. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ "Evan Lloyd Jones Death Notice". The Age. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ "Austlit β Virginia Spate". Austlit. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ^ "Dr Craig POWELL Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 September 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ Yeldham, Peter (24 October 2022). "The scriptwriter whose life was like a movie". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ "Angus Alexander Geoffrey TRUMBLE Death Notice". Canberra Times. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ Chandler, Mark (18 October 2022). "Carmen Callil, Virago founder and "author," dies aged 84". The Bookseller. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ "Margaret Dawn Hamilton Death Notice". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 December 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
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- ^ "Vale Antigone Kefala". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ^ "Vale Robert Adamson". Books+Publishing. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ^ "Wendy Jenkins". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 22 May 2024.