1982 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1982.

Events[edit]

Thomas Keneally won the 1982 Booker–McConnell Prize for Schindler's Ark, the first Australian to win the award.^[1]
Rodney Hall (writer) won the 1982 Miles Franklin Award for Just Relations

Major publications[edit]

Novels[edit]

Thea Astley — An Item from the Late News
Rodney Hall — Just Relations
Thomas Keneally — Schindler's Ark
David Malouf — Fly Away Peter
Gerald Murnane — The Plains^[2]
Tim Winton — An Open Swimmer

Crime and mystery[edit]

Peter Corris — The Marvellous Boy^[3]

Science fiction and fantasy[edit]

Glenda Adams — Games of the Strong^[4]
Damien Broderick — The Judas Mandala^[5]

Short stories[edit]

Beverley Farmer — "Snake"^[6]

Children's and young adult fiction[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Les Murray
- Equanimities^[8]
- The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961–1981^[9]
John Tranter — Selected Poems^[10]

Drama[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Blanche d'Alpuget — Robert J. Hawke: A Biography^[12]
Edmund Campion — Rockchoppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia^[13]
Nancy Keesing — Lily on the Dustbin: Slang of Australian Women and Families^[14]
Geoffrey Serle — John Monash^[15]

Awards and honours[edit]

Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)[edit]

Donald Horne^[16]

Member of the Order of Australia (AM)[edit]

Lifetime achievement[edit]

Award	Author
Christopher Brennan Award^[19]	Vincent Buckley
Patrick White Award^[20]	Bruce Beaver

Literary awards[edit]

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Award^[21]	David Malouf	Fly Away Peter	Chatto & Windus
ALS Gold Medal^[22]	No award
Colin Roderick Award^[23]	Geoffrey Serle	John Monash : A Biography	Melbourne University Press

Fiction[edit]

International[edit]

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Booker Prize^[24]	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark	Hodder and Stoughton

National[edit]

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Award^[25]	David Malouf	Fly Away Peter	Chatto & Windus
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award^[26]	Brian Castro	Birds of Passage	Allen and Unwin
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award^[26]	Nigel Krauth	Matilda, My Darling	Allen and Unwin
Miles Franklin Award^[27]	Rodney Hall	Just Relations	Penguin Books
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards^[28]	Peter Carey	Bliss	University of Queensland Press

Children and Young Adult[edit]

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award^[29]	Older Readers	Colin Thiele	The Valley Between	Opal Books
Children's Book of the Year Award^[29]	Picture Book	Jan Ormerod	Sunshine	Penguin Books
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards^[30]	Children's Book Award	Nan Hunt and Craig Smith	Whistle Up the Chimney	William Collins

Poetry[edit]

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Anne Elder Award^[31]	Kate Llewellyn	Trader Kate and the Elephants	Friendly Street Poets
Anne Elder Award^[31]	Peter Goldsworthy	Readings from Ecclesiastes	Angus & Robertson
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry^[32]	Vivian Smith	Tide Country	Angus & Robertson
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards^[33]	Fay Zwicky	Kaddish and Other Poems	University of Queensland Press

Non-fiction[edit]

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Award^[34]	Geoffrey Serle	John Monash: A Biography	Melbourne University Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards^[35]	Richard Haese	Rebels and Precursors: The Revolutionary Years of Australian Art	Allen Lane

Births[edit]

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1982 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

1 January — Craig Silvey, novelist, author of Jasper Jones^[36]
22 November — Alasdair Duncan, author and journalist^[37]
22 December — Sarah Holland-Batt, contemporary Australian poet, critic and academic^[38]

Unknown date

Kate Gordon, author of young adult fiction^[39]

Deaths[edit]

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1982 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

11 February — Albert Facey, writer, best known as author of A Fortunate Life (born 1894)^[40]
8 October — Joice NanKivell Loch, author, journalist and humanitarian worker (died in Greece) (born 1887)^[41]
15 November — Eve Pownall, writer for children and historian (born 1901)^[42]

References[edit]

^ Cain, Sian (17 October 2022). "Booker prize: it has been six years since an Australian was nominated. What gives?". Guardian Australia. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
^ "Austlit — The Plains by Gerald Murnane". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — The Marvellous Boy by Peter Corris". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — Games of the Strong by Glenda Adams". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — The Judas Mandala by Damien Broderick". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — "Snake" by Beverley Farmer". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — Moonlight by Jan Omerod". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — Equanimities by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961–1981 by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — Selected Poems by John Tranter". Austlit. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
^ "Austlit — Spellbound by Louis Nowra". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — Robert J. Hawke: a biography b y Blanche d'Alpuget". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — Rockchoppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia by Edmund Campion". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — Lily on the Dustbin: Slang of Australian Women and Families by Nancy Keesing". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — John Monash by Geoffrey Serle". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
^ "Associate Professor Donald Richmond Horne". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ "Robert David Fitzgerald, OBE". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ "Harold Edward (Hal) Porter". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award 1980-87". Austlit. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
^ "Austlit — Age Book of the Year". Austlit. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
^ "Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
^ Jordison, Sam (15 May 2009). "Booker club: Schindler's Ark". The Guardian.
^ "Austlit — Age Book of the Year — Imaginative Writing Prize 1982". Austlit. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
^ "Austlit — The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1982". Austlit. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
^ "Rodney Hall wins award". The Canberra Times. Vol. 57, no. 17, 397. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 18 May 1983. p. 3. Retrieved 24 June 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Austlit — Christina Stead Prize 1982". Austlit. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
^ ""1982 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award"". The Canberra Times, 24 July 1982, p13. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ "Austlit — Whistle Up the Chimney — Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 1982-84". Austlit. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^ "Austlit — Tide Country by Vivian Smith". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
^ "Austlit — Kaddish and Other Poems by Fay Zwicky". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
^ ""The Age Book of the Year Award - Non-Fiction 1982"". Austlit. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
^ ""Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 1982"". Austlit. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
^ "Craig Silvey". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
^ "Alasdair Duncan". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
^ "Sarah Holland-Batt". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
^ "Kate Gordon". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
^ "A. B. Facey". Austlit. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
^ "Joice Nankivell Loch". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
^ "Eve Pownall". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 22 June 2023.

[1] Cain, Sian (17 October 2022). "Booker prize: it has been six years since an Australian was nominated. What gives?". Guardian Australia. Retrieved 1 November 2023.

[Austlit1-2] "Austlit — The Plains by Gerald Murnane". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitc1-3] "Austlit — The Marvellous Boy by Peter Corris". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitsf1-4] "Austlit — Games of the Strong by Glenda Adams". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitsf2-5] "Austlit — The Judas Mandala by Damien Broderick". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlits1-6] "Austlit — "Snake" by Beverley Farmer". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitch1-7] "Austlit — Moonlight by Jan Omerod". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitp1-8] "Austlit — Equanimities by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitp2-9] "Austlit — The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961–1981 by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[10] "Austlit — Selected Poems by John Tranter". Austlit. Retrieved 10 November 2023.

[Austlitdr1-11] "Austlit — Spellbound by Louis Nowra". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitn1-12] "Austlit — Robert J. Hawke: a biography b y Blanche d'Alpuget". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitn2-13] "Austlit — Rockchoppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia by Edmund Campion". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitn3-14] "Austlit — Lily on the Dustbin: Slang of Australian Women and Families by Nancy Keesing". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[Austlitn4-15] "Austlit — John Monash by Geoffrey Serle". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

[16] "Associate Professor Donald Richmond Horne". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 18 September 2019.

[17] "Robert David Fitzgerald, OBE". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 18 September 2019.

[18] "Harold Edward (Hal) Porter". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 18 September 2019.

[CB1982-19] "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award 1980-87". Austlit. Retrieved 13 September 2023.

[AustlitPWA-20] "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 22 August 2023.

[Age82-21] "Austlit — Age Book of the Year". Austlit. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[ALS-22] "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 22 August 2023.

[CRA-23] "Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 26 June 2023.

[24] Jordison, Sam (15 May 2009). "Booker club: Schindler's Ark". The Guardian.

[Age82F-25] "Austlit — Age Book of the Year — Imaginative Writing Prize 1982". Austlit. Retrieved 31 October 2023.

[Vogel82-26] "Austlit — The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1982". Austlit. Retrieved 31 October 2023.

[27] "Rodney Hall wins award". The Canberra Times. Vol. 57, no. 17, 397. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 18 May 1983. p. 3. Retrieved 24 June 2023 – via National Library of Australia.

[CSP1982-28] "Austlit — Christina Stead Prize 1982". Austlit. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

[CBA1982-29] ""1982 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award"". The Canberra Times, 24 July 1982, p13. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

[NSWP1982-30] "Austlit — Whistle Up the Chimney — Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[AEA1982-84-31] "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 1982-84". Austlit. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

[GLP1982-32] "Austlit — Tide Country by Vivian Smith". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.

[KSP1982-33] "Austlit — Kaddish and Other Poems by Fay Zwicky". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.

[Age82n-34] ""The Age Book of the Year Award - Non-Fiction 1982"". Austlit. Retrieved 8 November 2023.

[DSP82-35] ""Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 1982"". Austlit. Retrieved 8 November 2023.

[AustlitB1-36] "Craig Silvey". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

[AustlitB2-37] "Alasdair Duncan". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

[AustlitB3-38] "Sarah Holland-Batt". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

[AustlitB4-39] "Kate Gordon". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

[AustlitD1-40] "A. B. Facey". Austlit. Retrieved 22 June 2023.

[41] "Joice Nankivell Loch". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 22 June 2023.

[42] "Eve Pownall". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 22 June 2023.

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Events[edit]

Major publications[edit]

Novels[edit]

Crime and mystery[edit]

Science fiction and fantasy[edit]

Short stories[edit]

Children's and young adult fiction[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Drama[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Awards and honours[edit]

Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)[edit]

Member of the Order of Australia (AM)[edit]

Lifetime achievement[edit]

Literary awards[edit]

Fiction[edit]

International[edit]

National[edit]

Children and Young Adult[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]