2009 in Australian literature
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The year 2009 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.

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2009 in literature
The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....

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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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2009 in Australia
2009 in Australia
-Incumbents:*Monarch – Queen Elizabeth II*Governor-General – Quentin Bryce*Prime Minister – Kevin Rudd-Premiers and Chief Ministers:*Premier of New South Wales – Nathan Rees , then Kristina Keneally*Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann...

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2010 in Australian literature.

Events

  • HarperCollins takes over ABC Books - the publishing arm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .
  • Caro Llewellyn, resigns as director of the new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (now called the Wheeler Centre) in Melbourne before taking up the role. Chrissy Sharp, the Australian general manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, is appointed to take her place.
  • The Australia-Asia Literary Award
    Australia-Asia Literary Award
    Australia-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...

    , based in Western Australia, is suspended..

Literary fiction

  • Parrot and Olivier in America
    Parrot and Olivier in America
    Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize....

    - Peter Carey
  • The Lost life - Steven Carroll
    Steven Carroll
    Steven 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...

  • The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
    Nick Cave
    Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

  • Black Dust Dancing - Tracy Crisp
  • The Book of Emmett - Deborah Forster
  • Reunion - Andrea Goldsmith
    Andrea Goldsmith
    -Life:Goldsmith was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish family. She started learning the piano as a young child, and music remains an abiding passion. She initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children with severe communication impairment until...

  • Valley of Grace - Marion Halligan
    Marion Halligan
    Marion Mildred Halligan AM is an Australian writer and novelist. She was born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales, and worked as a school teacher and journalist before publishing her first short stories. Halligan has served as chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and...

  • Butterfly - Sonya Hartnett
    Sonya Hartnett
    Sonya 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...

  • Dog Boy - Eva Hornung
  • Pescador's Wake - Katherine Johnson
  • The Marriage Club - Kate Legge
  • Ransom - 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...

  • The Diamond Anchor - Jennifer Mills
    Jennifer Mills
    Jennifer Mills is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet. She is the author of the novels 'The Diamond Anchor' and 'Gone' , both published by University of Queensland Press, and a chapbook of poems, Treading Earth....

  • The Virtuoso - Sonia Orchard
  • Headlong - Susan Varga

Children's and Young Adult fiction

  • Krakatoa Lighthouse - Allan Baille
  • Girl Next Door - Alyssa Brugman
    Alyssa Brugman
    Alyssa Brugman is an Australian author of fiction for young adults. She was born in Rathmines, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, Australia and attended five public schools before completing a Marketing Degree at the University of Newcastle. She currently resides in Hunter Valley.-Career:Brugman has...

  • The Winds of Heaven - Judith Clarke
  • The Nest - Paul Jennings
    Paul Jennings
    Paul Jennings may refer to:* Paul Jennings , Australian children's author* Paul Jennings , UK humorist...

  • How to Ditch Your Fairy - 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...

  • The Madman of Venice - Sophie Masson
    Sophie Masson
    Sophie Masson is a French-Australian fantasy and children's author.-Biography:Sophie Masson was born in Indonesia of French parents who are of mixed ancestry...

  • Jarvis 24 - David Metzenthen
  • The Lucky Ones - Tohby Riddle
    Tohby Riddle
    Tohby Riddle is an Australian cartoonist and picture-book creator. In 2005 he became editor of The School Magazine, in which his illustrations, non-fiction pieces and poems appear regularly...

  • The Scarecrow - Sean Williams

Crime and Mystery

  • High Noon in Nimbin - Robert G. Barrett
    Robert G. Barrett
    Robert 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...

  • Move to Strike - Sydney Bauer
  • The Iron Heart - Marshall Browne
    Marshall Browne
    Marshall Browne is an Australian crime fiction writer.A merchant banker he has lived in Hong Kong, London, and Bhutan. He now lives in Melbourne...

  • Deep Water - Peter Corris
    Peter Corris
    Peter Robert Corris is an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction...

  • Blood Moon - 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...

  • Black Ice - Leah Giarratano
    Leah Giarratano
    Leah Giarratano is a clinical psychologist and author who specialises in a number of areas including psychopathology and trauma counselling.She has written a number of novels with themes which are related to her work experiences...

  • Dark Country - Bronwyn Parry

Biographies

  • Boy He Cry: An Island OdysseyRoger Averill
    Roger Averill
    Roger Averill was an American politician who was Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.-Early life:Roger Averill was born in Salisbury, Connecticut. Some of his ancestors were among the earliest European settlers of Connecticut. His grandfathers, Samuel Averill and John Whittlesey, were natives of...

  • Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in MusicStephen Cummings
    Stephen Cummings
    Stephen Donald Cummings is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and writer. He was lead singer of Melbourne-based rock band, The Sports, during 1976–1981, followed by a solo career which has met with critical acclaim but has had limited commercial success...

  • Harry M Miller: Confessions of a Not-So-Secret AgentHarry M. Miller
    Harry M. Miller
    -Early career:Born in New Zealand, Miller grew up in Grey Lynn, Auckland, and moved to Australia in 1963, where he established a company called Pan Pacific Productions with Keith and Dennis Wong, owners of the noted Sydney nightclub "Chequers"...

     with Peter Holder
  • Manning Clark: A Life – Mark McKenna
  • ShotsDon Walker
    Don Walker (musician)
    Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...

  • Choir ManJonathon Welch
    Jonathon Welch
    Jonathon Welch is a choral conductor and singer from Melbourne, Australia.Welch was the 2008 winner of the Australian Local Hero Awardin recognition of his work with The Choir of Hard Knocks, a choir made up of homeless and disadvantaged singers from Melbourne...

  • Leo 'Rumpole' McKern: An Accidental Actor – George Whaley
  • David Williamson: Behind the ScenesKristin Williamson
    Kristin Williamson
    Kristin Löfvén Williamson is an Australian journalist and author.Kristin Williamson was born in Melbourne, went to school in Geelong and trained as a teacher. On graduating she took up a scholarship at the University of Florence in Italy to study Italian...


International

Award Region Category Author Title Publisher
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 Novel Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....

The Slap 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...


National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Barbara Jefferis Award
Barbara Jefferis Award
The Barbara Jefferis Award is an Australian Literary award prize. The award was created in 2007 after being endowed by John Hinde upon his death to commemorate his late wife, author Barbara Jefferis. It is funded by his $1 million bequest....

Helen Garner
Helen Garner
Helen Garner is an award-winning Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.-Life:Garner was born in Geelong, Victoria, the eldest of six children. She attended Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove State School and then The Hermitage in Geelong...

The Spare Room
The Spare Room
The Spare Room is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, set over the course of three weeks while the narrator, Helen, cares for a friend dying of bowel cancer. The Spare Room was published in 2008.- Plot summary:...

Text Publishing
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 Steven Amsterdam Things We Didn't See Coming Sleepers Publishing
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...

Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....

The Slap 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...

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...

Lisa Lang Utopian Man
Kristel Thornell Night Street
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 Joan London
Joan London
Joan London is the name of:* Joan London , Australian fiction author* Joan London , California author and daughter of Jack London...

The Good Parents
The Good Parents
The Good Parents is the second full-length novel written by Joan London. It was first published in 2008.The book concerns an eighteen year old girl, Maya de Jong, who moves to Melbourne and becomes involved in a relationship with her boss. When Maya's parents come to Melbourne to stay with her,...

Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

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 Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...

Wanting Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

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 Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....

The Slap 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...


Science Fiction

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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...

Lee Battersby
Lee Battersby
Lee Battersby is an Australian author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. His story "Carrying The God" made him the first Western Australian winner in the Writers of the Future Competition in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Ditmar Award for Best New Talent...

"The Claws of Native Ghosts" The Beast Within, ed. Matt Hults


Non-Fiction

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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...

Ann Blainey I Am Melba Black Inc.


See also

  • Literature
    Literature
    Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

  • List of years in Australian literature
  • List of Australian literary awards
  • 2009 in Australia
    2009 in Australia
    -Incumbents:*Monarch – Queen Elizabeth II*Governor-General – Quentin Bryce*Prime Minister – Kevin Rudd-Premiers and Chief Ministers:*Premier of New South Wales – Nathan Rees , then Kristina Keneally*Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann...

  • 2009 in literature
    2009 in literature
    The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....

  • 2009 in poetry
    2009 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nazim Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet...

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