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For an overview of world literature, see 2011 in literature .
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011 .
Events [ ]
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 [ ]
Literary fiction [ ]
Tony Birch – Blood
Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing
Annah Faulkner – The Beloved
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
Craig Sherborne – The Amateur Science of Love
Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party
Charlotte Wood – Animal People
Children's and Young Adult fiction [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
Lifetime achievement [ ]
Fiction [ ]
International [ ]
Award
Region
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
SE Asia and South Pacific
Best Book
Kim Scott
That Deadman Dance
Picador
National [ ]
Children and Young Adult [ ]
National [ ]
Crime and Mystery [ ]
National [ ]
Science Fiction [ ]
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 [ ]
Poetry [ ]
Drama [ ]
Deaths [ ]
1 March – Hazel Rowley , author (born 1951)
19 June – T. A. G. Hungerford , author (born 1915)
2 September – Bernard Smith , art historian (born 1916)
27 September – Sara Douglass , author (born 1957)
4 October – Di Gribble , editor and publisher (born 1942)
8 December – Zelman Cowen , jurist (born 1919)
Unknown date
See also [ ]
References [ ]
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