2007 in Australian literature
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The year 2007 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.
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2006 in Australian literature
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2007 in Australia
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2008 in Australian literature
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For an overview of world literature see 2007 in literature
2007 in literature
The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.-Events:*November 19 - First Kindle e-book reader released.*December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.-Literature:...
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2006 in Australian literature
2006 in Australian literature
The year 2006 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2006 in literature.See also:2005 in Australian literature,2006 in Australia,...
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2007 in Australia
2007 in Australia
-Incumbents:* Monarch – Queen Elizabeth II* Governor-General – Michael Jeffery* Prime Minister – John Howard , then Kevin Rudd-Premiers and Chief Ministers:* Premier of New South Wales – Morris Iemma* Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann...
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2008 in Australian literature
2008 in Australian literature
The year 2008 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2008 in literature.See also:2007 in Australian literature,2008 in Australia,...
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Events
- Surrender by Sonya Hartnett, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak are named as Honor Books in the 2007 American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
- "The Guardian" newspaper from the UK reports that Borders plans to sell its Australian stores.
- The small township of Clunes, about 20 kilometres north of Ballarat in Victoria, decides to try to set up Australia's first dedicated booktown. The first weekend event takes place on 20 May.
- AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), the major Australian literature resource for research and teaching housed at the University of Queensland, announces the commencement of "Black Words", a literary website specialising in Australian Indigenous writers and storytellers and their works.
- Federal Education minister, Julie Bishop, announces that the Australian Government will allocate funds to $A1.5m to create a Chair of Australian Literature in an Australian university.
- Charlie Rimmer, Group Commercial Manager for Angus and Robertson bookshops, writes to a number of Australian independent publishers indicating that the bookshop chain will refuse to stock their books without compensation.
- Lonely Planet, the iconic Australian publisher of travel guides, is sold to the commercial division of the BBC in a deal reportedly worth $A200 million.
- Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announces a major new literary prize of $100,000 in both fiction and non-fiction categories.
- Australia-Asia Literary AwardAustralia-Asia Literary AwardAustralia-Asia Literary Award was an initiative of the Government of Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts. It was one of the richest literary prizes in the region, indeed the world, with a purse of A$110,000. The Award was established in 2007. The first and only winner was...
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Literary fiction
- The Fern TattooThe Fern TattooThe Fern Tattoo is a 2007 novel by the Australian author David Brooks.-Plot summary:Benedict's mother has recently died; after the funeral he receives a phone call from Mrs. Darling, a friend of his mother's. Benedict visits the old woman in the countryside where she tells him various tales that...
- David Brooks - The Time We Have TakenThe Time We Have TakenThe Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s...
- Steven CarrollSteven CarrollSteven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT... - Diary of a Bad YearDiary of a Bad YearDiary of a Bad Year is a book by South African-born author J. M. Coetzee, who won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature. It was released by Text Publishing in Australia on 3 September 2007, in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker on 6 September, and in the United States on 27 December.- Plot summary...
- J. M. Coetzee - The Trout Opera - Matthew CondonMatthew Condon-Biography:Educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany, he is the author of ten novels and short story collections, including The Lulu Magnet, A Night at the Pink Poodle, The Motorcycle Cafe, The Pillow Fight and, most recently, The Trout Opera, an epic novel...
- The Zookeeper's War - Steven Conte
- Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds - Gregory DayGregory Day-Life:Gregory Day is a writer, poet and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is a founding director of the art, music & publishing collective, Merrijig Word & Sound Co. http://www.merrijigwordandsound.com/-Awards and nominations:...
- The Lost DogThe Lost Dog-Awards:*Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: shortlisted*Barbara Jefferis Award, 2008: shortlisted*New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: winner...
- 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... - Love and the Platypus - Nicholas Drayson
- The Anatomy of Wings - Karen Foxlee
- Love Without HopeLove Without HopeLove Without Hope is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.- Epigraph :"You are not dying because you are ill. You are dying because you are alive." - Montaigne- Awards and nominations :*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...
- Rodney HallRodney Hall-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the... - Orpheus Lost - 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...
- SorrySorry (novel)-Themes:The novel explores the major themes of Australian Aboriginal-White relations, the isolation and despair of farm life, the Stolen Generations, and life in World War II in Australia.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...
- Gail JonesGail JonesGail 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... - Burning In - Mireille Juchau
- The Widow and Her HeroThe Widow and Her HeroThe Widow and Her Hero is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally set in Australia during World War II.-Awards and nominations:* Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted...
- Tom Keneally - Jamaica - Malcom Knox
- The Memory Room - Christopher KochChristopher KochChristopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....
- Nights in the Asylum - Carol Lefevre
- The Complete Stories - David MaloufDavid MaloufDavid George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
- Feather Man - Rhyll McMasterRhyll McMasterRhyll McMaster is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000....
- Landscape of FarewellLandscape of FarewellLandscape of Farewell is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards and nominations:*Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...
- Alex MillerAlex 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... - Secrets of the Sea - Nicholas ShakespeareNicholas ShakespeareNicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and...
- The Children - Charlotte WoodCharlotte WoodCharlotte Wood is an Australian novelist.Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. She has a background in journalism and has also taught writing at a variety of levels. She currently lives in Sydney. She has a Master of Creative Arts from UTS and a BA from Charles Sturt University. Her new novel,...
- A Curious Intimacy - Jessica White
- The Seamstress - Geraldine WoollerGeraldine WoollerGeraldine Wooller is an Australian novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her novels are predominantly reflective works on the nature of love, friendship, loss and endurance....
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- The Shadow Thief - Alexandra AdornettoAlexandra AdornettoAlexandra Adornetto is the pseudonym of Alexandra Grace , an Australian author who writes for children and young adults. Her works include The Strangest Adventures series and the Halo trilogy.-Biography:...
- Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) - Sherryl Clark, illus by Elissa Christian
- Pharaoh: The Boy Who Conquered the Nile - Jackie FrenchJackie FrenchJacqueline Anne "Jackie" French is an award-winning Australian author. She writes mainly children's fiction and books on gardening....
- The Shaggy Gully Times - Jackie FrenchJackie FrenchJacqueline Anne "Jackie" French is an award-winning Australian author. She writes mainly children's fiction and books on gardening....
, illus by Bruce Whatley - Gravity - Scot Gardner
- The Ghost's Child - Sonya HartnettSonya HartnettSonya 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...
- Marty's Shadow - John Heffernan
- Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp - Odo HirschOdo HirschOdo Hirsch is the pen name of David Kausman, an Australian author of children's books. He was born in Melbourne, where he trained to be a doctor, but moved to London, where he currently lives....
- Notes from the Teenage Underground - Simmone Howell
- Magic's Child - Justine Larbalestier
- Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful - Brigid Lowry
- Love Like Water - Meme McDonald
- Black Water - David Metzenthen
- Winning the World Cup - David Metzenthen, illus by Stephen Axelsen
- The Keys to the Kingdom: Lady FridayLady FridayLady Friday is the fifth novel by Garth Nix in his 'The Keys to the Kingdom' series. The fifth Trustee, Lady Friday, is mentioned at the end of the fourth book in the series, Sir Thursday, as a 'Doctor Friday'. Lady Friday is also mentioned in Grim Tuesday by Grim Tuesday as "that fool, Friday"...
- 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... - Leaving Barrumbi - Leonie Norrington
- The Key to Rondo - Emily Rodda
- Extras - Scott WesterfeldScott WesterfeldScott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:...
- Dragon MoonDragon MoonDragon Moon is a children's fantasy novel by Carole Wilkinson, first published in 2007. It is the final book of the Dragonkeeper Trilogy. The books before it are Dragonkeeper and Garden of the Purple Dragon. The trilogy, based in ancient China, during the Han Dynasty, has won many awards...
- Carole WilkinsonCarole WilkinsonCarole Wilkinson is an award-winning Australian writer, best known for Dragonkeeper .-Career:Wilkinson's family emigrated to Australia when she was 12 in 1963. Up to the age of 40 she worked as a laboratory assistant until she decided on a change of career.To help her achieve her goal she studied... - The Changeling - Sean Williams
Crime and Mystery
- Golden Serpent - Mark Abernethy
- The Tesla Legacy – Robert G. BarrettRobert G. BarrettRobert G. Barrett is a popular Australian author of numerous books, most of them featuring the fictional Australian character Les Norton. He has also written others which are single book story. 'So What Do You Reckon?' is a collection of Robert's columns from when he was a columnist for the...
- And Hope to Die – John Clanchy and Mark Henshaw (J.M. Calder)
- Chain of EvidenceChain of EvidenceChain of Evidence is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award winning novel by the Australian author Garry Disher.-Notes:This is the fourth novel in the author's "Challis/Destry" series of crime novels, following The Dragon Man , Kittyhawk Down , and Snapshot .-Reviews:*"The Age" *"The Australian" *"Australian...
– 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... - Skin and Bone - Kathryn Fox
- Amongst the Dead - Robert Gott
- Trick or Treat - 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...
- Blood Sunset - Jarad Henry
- The Crimes of Billy Fish - Sarah HopkinsSarah HopkinsSarah Hopkins is an Australian criminal lawyer and novelist married to celebrity chef Matt Moran. Sarah Hopkins has worked in the area of social justice and prisoner rights for 15 years. She is currently working as a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney. She and Moran have two...
- Frantic - Katherine Howell
- Shattered - 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...
- Sucked In - Shane MaloneyShane maloneyShane Maloney born in Hamilton, Victoria is a Melbourne author best known as the creator of the Murray Whelan series of crime novels.-Life and career:...
- Fan Mail - PD Martin
- El Dorado - Dorothy PorterDorothy PorterDorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...
- Cherry Pie - Leigh RedheadLeigh RedheadLeigh Redhead, born 18 November 1971, in Adelaide, South Australia is an Australian mystery writer.She is best known as the creator of the character Simone Kirsch, a stripper who leaves the sex industry to become a private investigator...
- The Night Ferry – 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...
- A Fraction of the WholeA Fraction of the WholeA Fraction of the Whole is a 2008 novel by Steve Toltz. It follows three generations of the eccentric Dean family in Australia and the people who surround them.-Jasper Dean:...
- Steve ToltzSteve Toltz-Life and works:Toltz attended Knox Grammar School, Killara High School and graduated from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1994. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security... - The Low RoadThe Low RoadThe Low Road is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.-Awards:*Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted...
- Chris WomersleyChris WomersleyChris Womersley is an Australian author of crime fiction, short stories and poetry. He trained as a radio journalist and has travelled extensively to such places as India, South-East Asia, South America, North America, and West Africa...
Romance
- Claiming the Courtesan - Anna Campbell
- The Billionaire's Scandalous Marriage - Emma Darcy
- Cafe du Jour - Lilian Darcy
- Duet - Kimberley FreemanKim 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...
- Tomorrow's Princess - Anna JacobsAnna JacobsAnna Jacobs is an English novelist.Anna grew up in Lancashire, England, before emigrating in 1973 to Australia. She has published historical sagas and romances, modern novels and SF/F...
- Serendipity - Melanie La'Brooy
- Lands Beyond the Sea - Tamara McKinleyTamara McKinleyTamara McKinley is a British-based Australian author, living in the south of England.She was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1948, but was raised in Devonport until the age of ten, when who accompanied her English grandmother to the United Kingdom where she has been based ever since...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- The Spiraling WormThe Spiraling WormThe Spiraling Worm is a science fiction and Lovecraftian horror novel written in the style of a spy thriller, by authors David Conyers and John Sunseri and published in 2007. The novel went on to receive an Honourable Mention for Best Australian Horror Novel in the 12th Annual Aurealis Award and...
- David ConyersDavid ConyersDavid Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
& John SunseriJohn SunseriJohn Sunseri is a horror writer from Portland, Oregon in the United States. As well as writing traditional horror fiction he also writes Lovecraftian horror. John spent two years at Yale University studying a major in English. Today he manages a restaurant.Writing since 2001, John has published... - Dark Space - Marianne de PierresMarianne de PierresMarianne de Pierres is an Australian science fiction author. Born in Western Australia, she did her undergraduate studies at Curtin University in Perth and later studied a Postgraduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland...
- The Serpent Bride - Sara Douglass
- Heaven's Net is WideHeaven's Net Is WideHeaven’s Net is Wide is a prequel to Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori series. It recounts the life of Lord Shigeru from the age of 12...
- Lian Hearn - Remote Control - Jack Heath
- The Company of the Dead - David Kowalski
- The Darkness Within - Jason NahrungJason NahrungJason Nahrung is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne, Victoria with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner...
& Mil Clayton - Black Sheep: A Dystopian Novel - Ben Peek
- Saturn Returns - Sean Williams
Drama
- The Narcissist - Stephen Carleton
- Toy Symphony - Michael Gow
- King Tide - Katherine Thomson
Poetry
- Event - Judith Bishop
- Urban Elegies - David BrooksDavid Brooks (author)David Gordon Brooks is an Australian author.He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. He married Alison Summers in 1975. Brooks and Summers then studied abroad and received their M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto...
, Sydney: Island Press (Australia)Island Press (Australia)Island Press is an Australian publisher of poetry and other interests.Island Press was founded in 1970 by Canadian poet, musician and Sydney University lecturer Philip Roberts. He lived on Scotland Island at that time, hence the name. In 1973 Philip moved to Bundeena... - Press Release - Lisa Gorton
- Two Kinds of Silence - Kathryn LomerKathryn LomerKathryn Lomer is an Australian writer and poet.She began her career teaching ESL for many years, including two years in Japan.Her first novel, The God in the Ink was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001...
,University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3612-9 - Typewriter Music - David MaloufDavid MaloufDavid George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
, winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award - El Dorado - Dorothy PorterDorothy PorterDorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...
- The Best Australian Poems 2007 - Peter Rose, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-417-4
- Old/New World- Peter Skrznecki, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3586-3
- The Incoming Tide - Petra WhitePetra WhitePetra White is an Australian poet. Petra was born in Adelaide in 1975, the eldest of six children, and now lives in Melbourne, where she works, for the moment, as a public servant...
Non-fiction
- Killing Jodie - Janet Fife-Yeomans
- Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica - Tom Griffiths
- Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time - Clive JamesClive JamesClive James, AM is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism...
- Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers - Philip Jones
- Red Centre, Dark Heart - Evan McHugh
- Another Country - Nicholas Rothwell
- Underbelly: The Gangland War - John Silvester and Andrew Rule
Biographies
- Napoleon: The Path To Power 1769-1799 - Philip Dwyer
- Where the Sea Takes Us - Kim Huynh
- The Mascot - Mark Kurzem
- Life Class: The Education of a Biographer - Brenda NiallBrenda NiallDr Brenda Niall AO is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is particularly noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers...
- Muck - Craig Sherborne
- Communism: A Love Story - Jeff Sparrow
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.... |
David Rowbotham David Rowbotham David Rowbotham was an Australian poet and journalist.-Biography:Rowbotham was born in the Darling Downs of Queensland, in the city of Toowoomba. He attended Toowoomba Grammar School and studied at the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney... |
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... |
SE Asia and South Pacific | Best First Novel | Andrew O'Connor Andrew O'Connor (writer) -Life:Born in Warragul, Victoria. He studied Arts at Melbourne University before travelling and working in central and northern Australia. Following this, he lived and worked in Tokyo and Nagano, Japan... |
Tuvalu Tuvalu (novel) Tuvalu is a 2006 novel by Australian author Andrew O'Connor. It won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under 35.-Plot introduction:... |
Allen and Unwin |
National
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| ABC Fiction Award ABC Fiction Award The ABC Fiction Award was an Australian literary award presented annually to the best, original, unpublished, adult fiction manuscript, written by an Australian resident over the age of 18. It was launched in 2005... |
Damian McDonald | Luck in the Greater West | ABC Books | |
| 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 | David Malouf David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was... |
Every Move You Make Every Move You Make Every Move You Make is a 2010 Hong Kong police procedural television serial drama produced by TVB. The 20-episode drama originally aired five days a week, running from 4 to 29 October 2010 on the TVB Jade channel... |
Chatto & Windus |
| ALS Gold Medal ALS Gold Medal The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for “an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year.” From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the Australian Literature Society, then from 1983 by the Association for... |
Alexis Wright Alexis Wright Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria.... |
Carpentaria Carpentaria (novel) Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007.... |
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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... |
Stefan Laszczuk | I Dream of Magda | 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.... |
Deborah Robertson Deborah Robertson Deborah Robertson is an Australian novelist, poet and journalist. She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia and completed a degree in Creative Writing at the Curtin University of Technology... |
Careless Careless (novel) -Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2007: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted... |
Vintage Vintage Books Vintage Books is a publishing imprint founded in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf. Its publishing list includes world literature, fiction, and non-fiction... |
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| 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 ... |
Alexis Wright Alexis Wright Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria.... |
Carpentaria Carpentaria (novel) Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007.... |
Giramondo | |
| 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... |
Deborah Robertson Deborah Robertson Deborah Robertson is an Australian novelist, poet and journalist. She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia and completed a degree in Creative Writing at the Curtin University of Technology... |
Careless Careless (novel) -Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2007: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted... |
Vintage Books Vintage Books Vintage Books is a publishing imprint founded in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf. Its publishing list includes world literature, fiction, and non-fiction... |
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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 | Peter Carey | Theft: A Love Story Theft: A Love Story Theft: A Love Story is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It won the 2006 Vance Palmer Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for fiction.-Awards and nominations:... |
Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi trademark , which was designed by co-founder... |
| 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 | Alexis Wright Alexis Wright Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria.... |
Carpentaria Carpentaria (novel) Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007.... |
Giramondo |
| 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 | Alexis Wright Alexis Wright Alexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria.... |
Carpentaria Carpentaria (novel) Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007.... |
Giramondo |
| 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 | Simone Lazaroo | The Travel Writer | Macmillan 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:... |
International
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| Andre Norton Award Andre Norton Award The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, named to honor prolific science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton , is a yearly juried award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to the author of an outstanding young adult science fiction or... |
Justine Larbalestier Justine Larbalestier Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child... |
Magic or Madness Magic or Madness Magic or Madness is the first installment in Justine Larbalestier's Magic or Madness trilogy. The three main characters are Reason Cansino, Sarafina Cansino and Esmeralda Cansino.... |
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... |
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".... |
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... |
Red Spikes | 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... |
| 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.... |
Being Bee | 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... |
Shaun Tan Shaun Tan Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival... |
The Arrival | Lothian | |
| 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 .... |
Libby Gleeson Libby Gleeson Libby Gleeson is an Australian children's author. Born in Young, New South Wales, she is one of six children, the sister of former ABC TV Washington Correspondent Michael Gleeson and the mother of Home and Away actress Jessica Tovey.... , illus. Freya Blackwood |
Amy and Louis | 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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| 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:... |
Young Adult | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie | Pan Books Pan Books Pan Books is an imprint which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers owned by German publishers, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.... |
| 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... |
Children's | Narelle Oliver | Home | Omnibus Books |
| Young People's | Ursula Dubosarsky Ursula Dubosarsky Ursula Dubosarsky is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five NSW Premier's Literary Awards, more than any other writer in the Awards' 30 year history... |
The Red Shoe | 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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| 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 | Glenda Millard Glenda Millard Glenda Millard is an Australian writer of children's literature and young-adult fiction.-Biography:Millard was born in Victoria, Australia. Her first work was published in 1999 by Margaret Hamilton Books, entitled Unplugged!... |
Layla Queen of Hearts | ABC Books |
| Young Adult | Judith Clarke | One Whole and Perfect Day | 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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| 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 | Simmone Howell | Notes from the Teenage Underground | Macmillan 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:... |
| 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 | Kate McCaffrey | Destroying Avalon | Fremantle Arts Centre Fremantle Arts Centre Fremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia.... Press |
| Children's | Shaun Tan Shaun Tan Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival... |
The Arrival | Lothian | |
International
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| Duncan Lawrie Dagger | 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... |
The Broken Shore The Broken Shore The Broken Shore is a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.-Plot Summary:The novel's central character is Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective. Following serious physical injuries he is posted to his hometown where he begins the process of rebuilding... |
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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 | Sydney Bauer | Undertow | Macmillan 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:... |
| Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Garry Disher Garry Disher Garry 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... |
Chain of Evidence Chain of Evidence Chain of Evidence is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award winning novel by the Australian author Garry Disher.-Notes:This is the fourth novel in the author's "Challis/Destry" series of crime novels, following The Dragon Man , Kittyhawk Down , and Snapshot .-Reviews:*"The Age" *"The Australian" *"Australian... |
Soho Press Soho Press Soho Press is a New York City-based publisher. Founded by Laura Hruska in 1986, the company's primary focus is literary fiction and international crime series, with the occasional memoir... |
| First novel | Adrian Hyland | Diamond Dove | Text Publishing | |
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:... |
Novel | Will Elliott Will Elliott Will Elliott is an Australian literary horror fiction writer who lives in Brisbane, Queensland.His debut novel The Pilo Family Circus was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award... |
The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books |
| Short Story | Shaun Tan Shaun Tan Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival... |
The Arrival | Lothian Lothian Lothian forms a traditional region of Scotland, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills.... |
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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 | Will Elliott Will Elliott Will Elliott is an Australian literary horror fiction writer who lives in Brisbane, Queensland.His debut novel The Pilo Family Circus was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award... |
The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books |
| Novella/Novelette | Paul Haines | "The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or How I Found God Inside My Wife)" | Couer de Lion Publishing | |
| Short Story | Rjurik Davidson | "The Fear of White" | Borderlands #7 | |
| Collected Work | edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt | The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol. 2 | Mirrordanse Books | |
| Australian Shadows Award Australian Shadows Award The Australian Shadows Award is an annual literary award established by the Australian Horror Writers Association in 2005 to honour the best published work of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian... |
Will Elliott Will Elliott Will Elliott is an Australian literary horror fiction writer who lives in Brisbane, Queensland.His debut novel The Pilo Family Circus was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award... |
The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books | |
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 | Peter Cochrane Peter Cochrane (historian) Dr Peter Cochrane is an Australian historian and writer. In 2007, his book Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy shared the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History with Les Carlyon's The Great War.... |
Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy | Melbourne University Press |
| 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:... |
True crime | Karen Kissane | Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage | Hachette Australia |
| 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... |
Jacob Rosenberg Jacob Rosenberg Jacob G. Rosenberg was an award-winning author and Holocaust survivor. Rosenberg's poetry and prose have been published in both Australia and overseas.-Life:... |
East of Time | Brandl & Schlesinger | |
| Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History | Les Carlyon Les Carlyon Les Carlyon is an Australian writer, who was born in northern Victoria in 1942. He has been editor of Melbourne's journal of record, The Age, as well as editor-in-chief of The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, and has twice won the Walkley Award for journalism... |
The Great War | Macmillan 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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| Peter Cochrane Peter Cochrane (historian) Dr Peter Cochrane is an Australian historian and writer. In 2007, his book Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy shared the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History with Les Carlyon's The Great War.... |
Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy | Melbourne University Press | ||
| 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 | Robert Hughes Robert Hughes (critic) Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, AO is an Australian-born art critic, writer and television documentary maker who has resided in New York since 1970.-Early life:... |
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir | Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi trademark , which was designed by co-founder... |
| 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 | Libby Robin | How a Continent Created a Nation | University of NSW Press |
| Community and Regional History | Regina Ganter | Mixed Relations: Asian Aboriginal Contact in North Australia | University of Western Australia Press University of Western Australia Press UWA Publishing, formerly known as the University of Western Australia Press, is a Western Australian publisher established in 1935. It produces a range of non-fiction and fiction titles, introducing cookbooks into its list in 2008.-History:... |
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| General History | Christopher Clark Christopher Clark Christopher M. Clark is an Australian historian working in England. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and the Freie Universität Berlin.-Life:... |
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 | Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Harvard University Press is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P... |
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| Young People's | John Nicholson | Songlines and Stone Axes | 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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| 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 | Tom Griffith | Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica | University of NSW Press |
| History | Christopher Clark Christopher Clark Christopher M. Clark is an Australian historian working in England. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and the Freie Universität Berlin.-Life:... |
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 | Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Harvard University Press is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P... |
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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 | Danielle Clode | Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes | Melbourne University Press |
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... |
Robert Adamson Robert Adamson (poet) Robert Adamson is an Australian poet and publisher.-Biography:Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. He discovered poetry while educating himself in Gaol in his 20s. His first book, Canticles on the Skin, was published in 1970... |
The Goldfinches of Baghdad | Flood Editions |
| 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"... |
Robert Adamson Robert Adamson (poet) Robert Adamson is an Australian poet and publisher.-Biography:Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. He discovered poetry while educating himself in Gaol in his 20s. His first book, Canticles on the Skin, was published in 1970... |
The Goldfinches of Baghdad | Flood Editions |
| 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... |
John Tranter John Tranter John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting... |
Urban Myths: 210 Poems | 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... |
| 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... |
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... |
The Passenger | 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... |
| 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.... |
Judy Johnson | Jack | Pandanus Press |
| 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... |
Dennis Haskell | All the Time in the World | Salt Publishing Salt Publishing Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics... |
Deaths
- 1 February - Elizabeth JolleyElizabeth JolleyMonica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving...
, author (b. 1923) - 22 February - Joyce Lee, poet (b. 1913)
- 2 March - David A. Myers, poet and publisher (b. 1942)
- 23 May - John Croyston, poet (b. 1933)
- 11 July - Glenda AdamsGlenda AdamsGlenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral...
, author (b. 1939) - 11 July - Noel Rowe, poet (b. 1951)
- 1 August - Mona BrandMona BrandMona Brand was a twentieth-century Australian playwright, poet and freelance writer. She also wrote under the name Alexis Fox. In her own lifetime, she was more well-known in Europe than in Australia, so much so that Brand subtitled her 1995 autobiography, Enough Blue Sky, "The Autobiography of...
, playwright (b. 1915) - 24 August - Philip Grundy, translator (b. 1932)
- 16 October - Steven J. Spears, author and playwright (b. 1951)
- 31 October - Eric Rolls, author (b. 1923)
- 24 December - Jan McKemmish, author (b. 1950)
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