This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2007 .
Events [ ] Surrender by Sonya Hartnett , and The Book Thief Markus Zusak are named as Honor Books in the 2007 American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.[1] "The Guardian" newspaper from the UK reports that Borders plans to sell its Australian stores.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4] Federal Education minister, Julie Bishop , announces that the Australian Government will allocate funds to A$1.5m to create a Chair of Australian Literature in an Australian university.[5]
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.[6]
Lonely Planet , the iconic Australian publisher of travel guides, is sold to the commercial division of the BBC in a deal reportedly worth A$200 million.[7] Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd , announces a major new literary prize of $100,000 in both fiction and non-fiction categories.[8]
Australia-Asia Literary Award established.Major publications [ ] Literary fiction [ ] Children's and Young Adult fiction [ ] Alexandra Adornetto – The Shadow Thief Sherryl Clark – Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) , illus by Elissa Christian
Mem Fox – Where the Giant Sleeps Jackie French
Pharaoh: The Boy Who Conquered the Nile The Shaggy Gully Times , illus by Bruce WhatleyScot Gardner – Gravity
Sonya Hartnett – The Ghost's Child John Heffernan – Marty's Shadow
Odo Hirsch – Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp Simmone Howell – Notes from the Teenage Underground
Justine Larbalestier – Magic's Child Brigid Lowry – Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful Meme McDonald – Love Like Water David Metzenthen
Black Water Winning the World Cup , illus by Stephen AxelsenGarth Nix – Lady Friday Leonie Norrington – Leaving Barrumbi
Emily Rodda – The Key to Rondo Scott Westerfeld – Extras Carole Wilkinson – Dragon Moon Sean Williams – The Changeling Crime and Mystery [ ] Mark Abernethy – Golden Serpent
Robert G. Barrett – The Tesla Legacy John Clanchy and Mark Henshaw (J.M. Calder) – And Hope to Die
Garry Disher – Chain of Evidence Kathryn Fox – Skin and Bone Robert Gott – Amongst the Dead
Kerry Greenwood – Trick or Treat Jarad Henry – Blood Sunset
Sarah Hopkins – The Crimes of Billy Fish Katherine Howell – Frantic Gabrielle Lord – Shattered Shane Maloney – Sucked In PD Martin – Fan Mail
Dorothy Porter – El Dorado Leigh Redhead – Cherry Pie Michael Robotham – The Night Ferry Steve Toltz – A Fraction of the Whole Chris Womersley – The Low Road Romance [ ] Anna Campbell – Claiming the Courtesan
Emma Darcy – The Billionaire's Scandalous Marriage
Lilian Darcy – Cafe du Jour
Kimberley Freeman – Duet Anna Jacobs – Tomorrow's Princess Melanie La'Brooy – Serendipity
Tamara McKinley – Lands Beyond the Sea Science Fiction and Fantasy [ ] David Conyers & John Sunseri – The Spiraling Worm Marianne de Pierres – Dark Space Sara Douglass – The Serpent Bride Lian Hearn – Heaven's Net is Wide Jack Heath – Remote Control
David Kowalski – The Company of the Dead
Karen Miller – The Riven Kingdom Jason Nahrung & Mil Clayton – The Darkness Within Ben Peek – Black Sheep: A Dystopian Novel
Sean Williams – Saturn Returns Drama [ ] Stephen Carleton – The Narcissist
Michael Gow – Toy Symphony Katherine Thomson – King Tide Alana Valentine – Parramatta Girls Poetry [ ] Judith Bishop – Event David Brooks – Urban Elegies , Sydney: Island Press (Australia) Lisa Gorton – Press Release Kathryn Lomer – Two Kinds of Silence , University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3612-9 David Malouf – Typewriter Music , winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe AwardDorothy Porter – El Dorado Peter Rose – The Best Australian Poems 2007 , Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-417-4 Peter Skrzynecki – Old/New World , University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3586-3 Petra White – The Incoming Tide Non-fiction [ ] Janet Fife-Yeomans – Killing Jodie
Tom Griffiths – Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
Clive James – Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time Philip Jones – Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
Evan McHugh – Red Centre, Dark Heart
Nicolas Rothwell – Another Country John Silvester and Andrew Rule – Underbelly: The Gangland War Biographies [ ] Philip Dwyer – Napoleon: The Path To Power 1769–1799
Kim Huynh – Where the Sea Takes Us
Mark Kurzem – The Mascot
Brenda Niall – Life Class: The Education of a Biographer Craig Sherborne – Muck Jeff Sparrow – Communism: A Love Story Awards and honours [ ] Lifetime achievement [ ] Fiction [ ] International [ ] National [ ] Children and Young Adult [ ] International [ ] National [ ] Crime and Mystery [ ] International [ ]
Award
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
Duncan Lawrie Dagger
Peter Temple
The Broken Shore Text Publishing
National [ ] Science Fiction [ ]
Award
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
Aurealis Award Novel
Will Elliott
The Pilo Family Circus ABC Books
Short Story
Shaun Tan
The Arrival Lothian
Ditmar Award Novel
Will Elliott
The Pilo Family Circus ABC Books
Novella/Novelette
Paul Haines
"The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or How I Found God Inside My Wife)"
Coeur 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
Will Elliott
The Pilo Family Circus ABC Books
Non-Fiction [ ]
Award
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Non-fiction
Peter Cochrane
Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy
Melbourne University Press
Davitt Award True crime
Karen Kissane
Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage
Hachette Australia
National Biography Award
Jacob Rosenberg
East of Time
Brandl & Schlesinger
Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
Les Carlyon
The Great War
Macmillan
Peter Cochrane
Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy
Melbourne University Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction
Robert Hughes
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir
Alfred A. Knopf
New South Wales Premier's 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
General History
Christopher Clark
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
Harvard University Press
Young People's
John Nicholson
Songlines and Stone Axes
Allen & Unwin
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction
Tom Griffith
Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
University of NSW Press
History
Christopher Clark
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
Harvard University Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction
Danielle Clode
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
Melbourne University Press
Poetry [ ] Drama [ ] Deaths [ ] 1 February – Elizabeth Jolley , author (born 1923)
22 February – Joyce Lee, poet (born 1913)
2 March – David A. Myers, poet and publisher (born 1942)
23 May – John Croyston, poet (born 1933)
11 July – Glenda Adams , author (born 1939)
11 July – Noel Rowe , poet (born 1951)
1 August – Mona Brand , playwright (born 1915)
24 August – Philip Grundy, translator (born 1932)
16 October – Steve J. Spears , author and playwright (born 1951)
31 October – Eric Rolls , author (born 1923)
24 December – Jan McKemmish, author (born 1950) See also [ ] References [ ] Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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Australian literature (1860–present)
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