2019 in Australian literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.
Major publications
[edit]Literary fiction
[edit]- Tony Birch – The White Girl[1]
- David Brooks – The Grass Library[2]
- Steven Carroll – The Year of the Beast[3]
- Melanie Cheng – Room for a Stranger[4]
- Peggy Frew – Islands[5]
- Peter Goldsworthy – Minotaur[6]
- John Hughes – No One[7]
- Anna Krien – Act of Grace[8]
- Melina Marchetta – The Place on Dalhousie[9]
- Andrew McGahan – The Rich Man's House (posthumous)[10]
- Gerald Murnane – A Season on Earth[11]
- Favel Parrett – There Was Still Love[12]
- Heather Rose – Bruny[13]
- Philip Salom – The Returns[14]
- Carrie Tiffany – Exploded View[15]
- Lucy Treloar – Wolfe Island[16]
- Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus[17]
- Tara June Winch – The Yield
- Charlotte Wood – The Weekend[18]
Short stories
[edit]- Debra Adelaide – Zebra: And Other Stories[19]
- Yumna Kassab – The House of Youssef[20]
- Josephine Rowe – Here Until August[21]
Children's and young adult fiction
[edit]- Mem Fox – The Tiny Star
- Helena Fox – How It Feels to Float[22]
- Will Kostakis – Monuments[23]
- Tania McCartney – Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures[24]
- Meg McKinlay – Catch a Falling Star[25]
- Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu[26]
- Holden Sheppard – Invisible Boys[27]
- Vikki Wakefield – This is How We Change the Ending[28]
Crime
[edit]- Matthew Condon – The Night Dragon[29]
- Pip Drysdale – The Strangers We Know[30]
- Candice Fox – Gone By Midnight[31]
- Nick Gadd – Death of a Typographer[32]
- Tara Moss – Dead Man Switch[33]
- Dave Warner – River of Salt[34]
- Christian White – The Wife and the Widow[35]
Science fiction
[edit]- John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars[36]
- Claire G. Coleman – The Old Lie
- Greg Egan
- Garth Nix – Angel Mage
Poetry
[edit]- Louise Crisp – Yuiquimbiang[37]
- Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition[38]
- Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu[39]
- L. K. Holt – Birth Plan[40]
- Gerald Murnane – Green Shadows and Other Poems[41]
- Pi O – Heide[42]
Non-fiction
[edit]- Jane Caro – Accidental Feminists[43]
- Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) – Growing Up African in Australia[44]
- Stan Grant
- Nicholas Hasluck – Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir[47]
- Jess Hill – See What You Made Me Do[48]
- Jacqueline Kent, Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook[49]
- Caro Llewellyn – Diving into Glass[50]
- Emily Maguire – This is What a Feminist Looks Like[51]
- Bianca Nogrady (editor) – The Best Australian Science Writing 2019[52]
- Christina Thompson – Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia[53]
Awards and honours
[edit]Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
[edit]| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[54] | Jordie Albiston |
Literary
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[55] | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Vagabond Press |
| Colin Roderick Award[56] | Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Hamish Hamilton |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[58] | Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc |
| Stella Prize[59] | Vicki Laveau-Harvie | The Erratics | Fourth Estate |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains | Belvoir and Co-Curious |
Fiction
[edit]National
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Not awarded | ||
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[62] | Not awarded | ||
| Barbara Jefferis Award[63] | Not awarded | ||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[57] | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Picador |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[57] | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
| Miles Franklin Award[64] | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | University of Queensland Press |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[65] | Gail Jones | The Death of Noah Glass | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
| Queensland Literary Awards[67] | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Text Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Elise Valmorbida | The Madonna of the Mountains | Faber & Faber |
Children and Young Adult
[edit]National
[edit]Crime and Mystery
[edit]National
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[71] | Novel | Dervla McTiernan | The Rúin | HarperCollins |
| Young adult novel | Sarah Epstein | Small Spaces | Walker Books | |
| Children's novel | Judith Rossell | Wakestone Hall | ABC Books | |
| True crime | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire | Penguin | |
| Debut novel | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Allen & Unwin | |
| Readers' choice | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan | |
| Ned Kelly Award[72] | Novel | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan |
| First novel | Dervla McTiernan | The Rúin | HarperCollins | |
| True crime | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Allen & Unwin | |
| Lifetime achievement | Bob Bottom |
Science fiction
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ditmar Award[73] | Novel | Sam Hawke | City of Lies (Poison Wars 1) | Tor Books |
| Best Novella or Novelette | Tansy Rayner Roberts | Cabaret of Monsters | self-published | |
| Best Short Story | Kathleen Jennings | "The Heart of Owl Abbas" | Tor.com |
Poetry
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Not awarded | ||
| Anne Elder Award[74] | Eunice Andrada | Flood Damages | Giramondo |
| Mary Gilmore Award[75] | Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | Cordite |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] | Judith Bishop | Interval | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Kate Lilley | Tilt | Vagabond Press |
Drama
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] | Script | Benjamin Gilmour | Jirga | Felix Media Pty Ltd |
| Play | Kendall Feaver | The Almighty Sometimes | Griffin Theatre |
Non-Fiction
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | Non-Fiction | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist | Random House Australia |
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Marcia Langton | Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country | Hardie Grant Travel | |
| National Biography Award[76] | Biography | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] | Non-Fiction | Billy Griffiths (joint winner) | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc. |
| Sarah Krasnostein (joint winner) | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing | ||
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[77] | Australian History | Meredith Lake | The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History | NewSouth Books |
| Community and Regional History | Sarah Luke | Callan Park, Hospital for the Insane | Australian Scholarly Publishing | |
| General History | Christina Thompson | Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia | Harper | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[67] | Non-Fiction | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Scribe |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Non-Fiction | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
Deaths
[edit]- 20 January – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born 1938)[78]
- 1 February – Andrew McGahan, novelist (born 1966)[79]
- 4 March – Les Carlyon, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (born 1942)[80]
- 13 March – Edmund Capon, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London)[81]
- 15 March – Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria)[82]
- 22 March – Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (born 1927)[83]
- 29 April – Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born 1938)[84]
- 19 May – John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (born 1921)[85]
- 1 June – Christobel Mattingley, writer for children and young adults (born 1931)[86]
- 13 July – Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author (born 1956)[87]
- 21 July –
- 10 September – Hal Colebatch, poet and novelist (born 1945)[90]
- 30 October – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born 1939)[91]
- 24 November – Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died in Cambridge, England)(born 1939)[92]
See also
[edit]- 2019 in Australia
- 2019 in literature
- 2019 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
- List of Australian literary awards
References
[edit]- ^ "The White Girl by Tony Birch". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Grass Library by David Brooks". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Year of the Beast by Steven Carroll". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Islands by Peggy Frew". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "No One by John Hughes". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Act of Grace by Anna Krien". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Bruny by Heather Rose". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Returns by Philip Salom". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "The Weekend by Charlotte Wood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "Zebra: And Other Stories by Debra Adelaide". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Here Until August by Josephine Rowe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Monuments by Will Kostakis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures by Tania McCartney". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Gone By Midnight by Candice Fox". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Dead Man Switch by Tara Moss". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "River of Salt by Dave Warner". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "The Wife and the Widow by Christian White". Austlit. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham". ISFDB. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Yuiquimbiang by Louise Crisp". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "After the Demolition by Zenobia Frost". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Birth Plan by L. K. Holt". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Heide by Pi O". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Australia Day by Stan Grant". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "On Identity by Stan Grant". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir by Nicholas Hasluck". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "This is What a Feminist Looks Like by Emily Maguire". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 edited by Bianca Nogrady". Austlit. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ "Albiston wins 2019 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
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- ^ The 2019 Stella Prize. Retrieved 9 April 2019
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- ^ "No Vogel to be awarded this year". Books+Publishing. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
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- ^ "CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ "Moloney wins 2019 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ "'The Ruin' wins best novel at 2019 Davitt Awards". Books+Publishing. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ Steger, Jason (6 September 2019). "Women crime writers clean up at the Ned Kelly awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
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- ^ "Andrada wins Anne Elder Award 2018 for 'Flood Damages'". Books+Publishing. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "'Impassioned letter' from Manus Island wins 2019 National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
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- ^ "Les Carlyon". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Edmund George Capon". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Rudi Krausmann". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Remembering Jack Absalom". AnArt4Life. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Les Murray". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
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- ^ "Christobel Mattingley". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Kerry Reed-Gilbert". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
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- ^ Clarke, Patricia. "Ann Veronica Moyal". Obituaries Australia. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Hal Colebatch". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
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- ^ "Clive James". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
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