2011 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011.
Events[edit]
- Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe[1]
- Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts[2]
- Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading[3]
- Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day[4]
- Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011[5]
- Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club[6]
- Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund[7]
- Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates[8]
- The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) appoints Robert Adamson to hold the inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry[9]
Major publications[edit]
Literary fiction[edit]
- Tony Birch – Blood
- Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing[10]
- Annah Faulkner – The Beloved[11]
- Anna Funder – All That I Am
- Kate Grenville – Sarah Thornhill
- Gail Jones – Five Bells
- Jeanine Leane – Purple Threads
- Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
- Alex Miller – Autumn Laing
- Frank Moorhouse – Cold Light
- Favel Parrett – Past The Shallows
- Elliot Perlman – The Street Sweeper[12]
- Craig Sherborne – The Amateur Science of Love[13]
- Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party
- Charlotte Wood – Animal People[14]
Children's and Young Adult fiction[edit]
- Alexandra Adornetto – Hades
- Em Bailey – Shift
- J. C. Burke – Pig Boy
- Isobelle Carmody – The Sending
- Ursula Dubosarsky – The Golden Day
- Scott Gardner – The Dead I Know
- Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails
- Andrew McGahan – The Coming of the Whirlpool
- Melina Marchetta – Froi of the Exiles
- Vikki Wakefield – All I Ever Wanted
- Scott Westerfeld – Goliath
Science Fiction and Fantasy[edit]
- Max Barry – Machine Man
- Trudi Canavan – The Rogue
- Peter Docker – The Water Boys
- Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
- Will Elliott – Shadow
- Kim Falconer – Road to the Soul
- Pamela Freeman – Ember and Ash
- Richard Harland – Liberator
- Glenda Larke – Stormlord's Exile
- Kim Westwood – The Courier's New Bicycle
Crime and Mystery[edit]
- Alan Carter – Prime Cut
- Peter Corris – Follow the Money
- Garry Disher – Whispering Death
- Kerry Greenwood – Cooking the Books
- Stuart Littlemore – Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice
- Barry Maitland – Chelsea Mansion
- Kel Robertson – Rip Off
- Michael Robotham – The Wreckage
Poetry[edit]
- Ali Alizadeh – Ashes in the Air
- Joanne Burns – Amphora
- Barry Hill – Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings
- John Kinsella – Armour
- Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited)
- Jaya Savige – Surface to Air
Biography[edit]
- Julian Assange – Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
- A. J. Brown – Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles
- Eileen Chanin – Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907
- Raimond Gaita – After Romulus
- Mark McKenna – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark
- Susan Mitchell – Tony Abbott: A Man's Man
- Christine Nixon – Fair Cop
- Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story
- Alice Pung – Her Father's Daughter
- David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History
- Sarah Watt, William McInnes – Worse Things Happen at Sea
Awards and honours[edit]
Lifetime achievement[edit]
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[15] | Jennifer Harrison |
| Patrick White Award[16] | Robert Adamson |
Literary[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year[17] | Fiona McGregor | Indelible Ink | Scribe Publishing |
| ALS Gold Medal[18] | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Picador |
| Colin Roderick Award[19] | Karen Kissane | Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm | Hachette Australia |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[20] | Brenda Walker | Reading by Moonlight | Hamish Hamilton |
| Victorian Prize for Literature[21] | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Picador |
Fiction[edit]
International[edit]
| Award | Region | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[22] | SE Asia and South Pacific | Best Book | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Picador |
National[edit]
Children and Young Adult[edit]
National[edit]
Crime and Mystery[edit]
National[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[30] | Novel | Katherine Howell | Cold Justice | Pan Macmillan |
| Young Adult novel | Penny Matthews | A Girl Like Me | Penguin | |
| True crime | Colleen Egan | Murderer No More | Allen & Unwin | |
| Readers' choice | P. M. Newton | The Old School | Viking | |
| Ned Kelly Award[31] | Novel | Geoffrey McGeachin | The Diggers Rest Hotel | Penguin Books |
| First novel | Alan Carter | Prime Cut | Fremantle Press | |
| True crime | Geesche Jacobsen | Abandoned - The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble | Allen & Unwin | |
| Lifetime achievement | Not awarded |
Science fiction[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Kim Westwood | The Courier's New Bicycle | HarperVoyager |
| SF Short Story | Robert N. Stephenson | "Rains of la Strange" | Coeur de Lion Publishing (Anywhere but Earth) | |
| Fantasy Novel | Pamela Freeman | Ember and Ash | Hachette | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "Fruit of the Pipal Tree" | FableCroft Publishing (After the Rain) | |
| Horror Short Story | Paul Haines | "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt" | Brimstone Press (The Last Days of Kali Yuga) | |
| Lisa L. Hannett | "The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bluegrass Symphony) | ||
| Australian Shadows Awards | Novel | No Award | ||
| Long Fiction | Paul Haines | "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt" | Brimstone Press (The Last Days of Kali Yuga) | |
| Short Fiction | Amanda J. Spedding | "Shovel Man Joe" | Shades of Sentience, May 2011 | |
| Edited Publication | Russell B. Farr, editor | Dead Red Heart | Ticonderoga Publications | |
| Collected Works | Brett McBean | Tales of Sin and Madness | LegumeMan Books | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Tansy Rayner Roberts | Power and Majesty | HarperVoyager |
| Novella/Novelette | Thoraiya Dyer | "The Company Articles of Edward Teach" | Twelfth Planet Press | |
| Short Story | Cat Sparks | "All the Love in the World" | Twelfth Planet Press (Sprawl) | |
| Kirstyn McDermott | "She Said" | Morrigan Books (Scenes From the Second Storey) | ||
| Collected Work | Alisa Krasnostein ed. | Sprawl | Twelfth Planet Press |
Non-Fiction[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Non-fiction | Jim Davidson | A Three-Cornered Life | UNSW Press |
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Ursula Dubosarsky, illus. Tohby Riddle | The Return of the Word Spy | Viking Books |
| Davitt Award | True crime | Colleen Egan | Murderer No More | Allen & Unwin |
| National Biography Award | Alasdair McGregor | Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin | Lantern | |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[26] | Non-Fiction | Anh Do | The Happiest Refugee | Allen & Unwin |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Rod Moss | The Hard Light of Day | University of Queensland Press |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons | Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs | Melbourne University Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Penny Russell | Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia | UNSW Press |
| Community and Regional History | Stephen Gapps | Cabrogal to Fairfield City: A History of a Multicultural Community | Fairfield City Council | |
| General History | Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson and Graham White | Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars | Harvard University Press | |
| Young People's | Kirsty Murray | India Dark | Allen & Unwin | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Mark McKenna | An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark | Melbourne University Publishing |
| History | Alan Powell | Northern Voyagers: Australia's monsoon coast in maritime history | Australian Scholarly Publishing | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Mark McKenna | An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark | Melbourne University Publishing |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Non-fiction | Alice Pung | Her Father's Daughter | Black Inc. |
| Western Australian history | Fiona Skyring | Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia | University of Western Australia Press |
Poetry[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | John Tranter | Starlight: 150 Poems | University of Queensland Press |
| Anne Elder Award[32] | Rosanna Licari | The Weather of Tongues | Sunline |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[33] | Not awarded | ||
| Mary Gilmore Prize[34] | Not awarded | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Jennifer Maiden | Pirate Rain | Giramondo Publishing |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | John Tranter | Starlight: 150 Poems | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Cate Kennedy | The Taste of River Water | Scribe |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Tracy Ryan | The Argument | Fremantle Press |
Drama[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Play | Patricia Cornelius | Do Not Go Gentle | Currency Press |
| Script | Debra Oswald | Offspring | Southern Star Entertainment | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Phillip Kavanagh | Little Borders | |
| Fellowship | Patricia Cornelius |
Deaths[edit]
- 1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951)[35]
- 15 June – Anne Godfrey-Smith, poet and theatre producer/director (born 1921)[36]
- 20 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915)[37]
- 2 September – Bernard Smith, art historian (born 1916)
- 27 September – Sara Douglass, author (born 1957)[38]
- 4 October – Di Gribble, editor and publisher (born 1942)
- 8 December – Zelman Cowen, jurist (born 1919)
Unknown date
- May – Robert J. Merritt, playwright (born 1945)
See also[edit]
- 2011 in Australia
- 2011 in literature
- 2011 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
- List of Australian literary awards
References[edit]
- ^ Australian Writers Named in Queen's Birthday Honours
- ^ Keneally's Library Finds New Home
- ^ National Year of Reading in 2012
- ^ National Bookshop Day
- ^ Australian Literary Review to Cease Publication
- ^ Hannie Rayson Wins New York Commission
- ^ Hazel Rowley's Literary Legacy
- ^ Australia's First Children's Laureates Announced
- ^ UTS Appoints Inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry
- ^ "Austlit — Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks". Austlit. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — The Beloved by Annah Faulkner". Austlit. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman". Austlit. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne". Austlit. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Animal People by Charlotte Wood". Austlit. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Former inmate wins $18,000 poetry prize". canberratimes.com.au. 7 November 2011. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ Steger, Jason (26 August 2011). "Winning words". The Age. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ "2011 prize: final programme". Commonwealth Foundation. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011.
- ^ ""The Age Book of the Year - Fiction Prize (2008-2012)"". Austlit. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2009-2012"". Austlit. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ a b c ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2012 & prior"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Kim Scott wins prestigious Miles Franklin". ABC News. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ ""Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Shortlist and winners: 2021-2008"". Creative Australia. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ ""Fraser the Cold War warrior joins the literati"". The Age, 17 May 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2011"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ ""Ned Kelly Awards 2011"". Mystery Readers Inc. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award (2011-2013)". Austlit. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry prize (2008-2012)". Austlit. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "Hazel Rowley". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Anne Godfrey-Smith". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "T. A. G. Hungerford". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Sara Douglass". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
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