2018 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Ceridwen Dovey, In the Garden of the Fugitives
- Eleanor Limprecht, The Passengers
- Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
- Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Andy Griffiths, The 104-Storey Treehouse
- Richard Roxburgh, Artie and the Grime Wave
- Shaun Tan, Cicada
Crime
- Michael Robotham, The Other Wife
- Candice Fox, Redemption Point
Poetry
- Jordie Albiston, Warlines
- Judith Beveridge, Sun Music: New and Selected Poems
- Ken Bolton, Starting at Basheer's
- Sarah Day, Towards Light & Other Poems
- Paul Hetherington, Moonlight on Oleander
- John Mateer, João
- Tim Metcalf, The Underwritten Plain
- Tracy Ryan, The Water Bearer
Biographies
- Peter FitzSimons, Monash's Masterpiece
- Jacqui Lambie, Rebel with a Cause: You can't keep a bloody Lambie down — my story from soldier to senator and beyond
- Gillian Triggs, Speaking Up
Non-fiction
- Cynthia Banham, A Certain Light
- Steve Biddulph, Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century: How To Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind And Strong Men
- Stephen Gapps, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817
- Billy Griffiths, Deep Time Dreaming
- Anita Heiss (editor), Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
- Thomas Keneally, Australians: A Short History
- Virginia Lloyd, Girls at the Piano
- Michael C Madden, The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
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| Patrick White Award | to be announced November 2018 |
Fiction
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[1] | Emily O'Grady | The Yellow House | Allen & Unwin | |
| Miles Franklin Award[2][3] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Fiction | To be announced December 2018 | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Fiction | Bram Presser | The Book of Dirt | Text Publishing |
| Queensland Literary Awards | Fiction | To be announced October 2018 | ||
| Stella Prize[5] | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Giramondo | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[6] | Fiction | Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Text Publishing |
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| Children's Book of the Year Award[7] | Older Readers | Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell | Take Three Girls | Pan Macmillan |
| Younger Readers | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Allen & Unwin | |
| Picture Book | Gwyn Perkins | A Walk in the Bush | Affirm Press | |
| Early Childhood | Michael Gerard Bauer; Chrissie Krebs (illustrator) | Rodney Loses It! | Omnibus Books | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Idan Ben-Barak, illus. Julian Frost | Do Not Lick This Book | Allen & Unwin | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Children's | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Allen & Unwin |
| Young People's | Zana Fraillon | The Ones That Disappeared | Lothian | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[6] | Young Adult Fiction | Demet Divaroren | Living on Hope Street | Allen & Unwin |
Crime and Mystery
International
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| CWA Gold Dagger Award | To be announced October 2018 | ||
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| Davitt Award[8] | Novel | Emma Viskic | And Fire Came Down | Echo Books |
| Ned Kelly Award[9] | Novel | Sulari Gentill | Crossing the Lines | Pantera |
| First novel | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Allen & Unwin | |
Science Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| Ditmar Award[10] | Novel | Thoralya Dyer | Crossroads of Canopy | Tor |
| Best Novella or Novelette | Tansey Rayner Roberts | "Girl Reporter" | Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers Publishing) | |
| Best Short Story | Janeen Webb | "A Pearl Beyond Price" | Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1 (IFWG Publishing Australia) | |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| National Biography Award[11] | Biography | Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Non-Fiction | Paul Ham | Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth | William Heinemann Australia |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[12] | Australian History | Christina Twomey | The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia | NewSouth Publishing |
| Community and Regional History | Paul Irish | Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney | NewSouth Publishing | |
| General History | Sean Scalmer | On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia | Temple University Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | To be announced October 2018 | ||
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[6] | Non-fiction | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[6] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Script (joint winners) | Amanda Blue and Jacob Hickey | Deep Water: The Real Story | Blackfella Films |
| Jane Campion and Gerard Lee | Birthday, Top of the Lake: China Girl, Series 2 Episode 4 | See Saw Films | ||
| Play | Black is the New White | Nakkiah Lui | Sydney Theatre Company | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award To be announced May 2019 |
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| Fellowship |
Deaths
- 6 March — Peter Temple, author of Jack Irish series
- 16 April — Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer
- 1 June — Jill Ker Conway, academic, and author of The Road from Coorain
- 30 August – Peter Corris, 76, crime novelist
- 31 August – Ian Jones, 86, author and television writer and director
See also
References
- ↑ "Brisbane author Emily O'Grady wins $20,000 Vogel Literary Award". ABC News. 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
- ↑ "Miles Franklin Literary Awards Applications | Perpetual | Perpetual". www.perpetual.com.au. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
- ↑ "Michelle de Kretser wins her second Miles Franklin award with The Life To Come". ABC News. 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Morris, Linda (30 April 2018). "Stories of ancestral memory storm NSW Premier's Literary Awards". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ The 2018 Stella Prize. Retrieved 13 April 2018
- 1 2 3 4 "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ "CBCA - Book of the Year Awards 2018". cbca.org.au. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
- ↑ "'And Fire Came Down' wins best novel at 2018 Davitt Awards | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 2018-08-28.
- ↑ "Gentill, Bailey win 2018 Ned Kelly Awards | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 2018-08-28.
- ↑ "Ditmar Awards 2018 winners announced". Books + Publishing. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
- ↑ Convery, Stephanie (2018-08-06). "Judith Brett wins National Biography award for 'profound' look at life of Alfred Deakin". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
- ↑ "Winners of the 2018 NSW Premier's History Awards announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 2018-09-03.
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