For an overview of world literature, see 2018 in literature .
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018 .
Major publications [ ] Literary fiction [ ] Michael Mohammed Ahmad , The Lebs , Flames
Trent Dalton , Gregory Day , A Sand Archive Ceridwen Dovey , In the Garden of the Fugitives Rodney Hall , A Stolen Season Gail Jones , The Death of Noah Glass Eleanor Limprecht, The Passengers
Melissa Lucashenko , Too Much Lip Jennifer Mills , Dyschronia Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Kate Morton , The Clockmaker's Daughter Kristina Olsson , Shell Ryan O'Neill, 99 Interpretations of The Drover's Wife
Heather Rose , The Museum of Modern Love Kim Scott , Taboo Tim Winton , The Shepherd's Hut Markus Zusak , Bridge of Clay Children's and Young Adult fiction [ ] Maxine Beneba Clarke , Wide Big World , illustrated by Isobel KnowlesMem Fox , Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again Judy Horacek Andy Griffiths , The 104-Storey Treehouse Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekial Kwaymullina, Catching Teller Crow Richard Roxburgh , Artie and the Grime Wave Shaun Tan , Cicada Shaun Tan , Tales from the Inner City Lili Wilkinson , After the Lights Go Out Crime [ ] Candice Fox , Redemption Point Kerry Greenwood , The Spotted Dog Chris Hammer , Scrublands Jane Harper , The Dry Chloe Hooper , The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire Michael Robotham , The Other Wife Science Fiction and Fantasy [ ] Alan Baxter
Hidden City Devouring Dark Kylie Chan , Scales of Empire Traci Harding , This Present Past Kaaron Warren , Tide of Stone Poetry [ ] Jordie Albiston , Warlines Judith Beveridge , Sun Music: New and Selected Poems Ken Bolton , Starting at Basheer's Sarah Day , Towards Light & Other Poems Paul Hetherington , Moonlight on Oleander Bella Li , Lost Lake John Mateer , João Tim Metcalf , The Underwritten Plain Tracy Ryan , The Water Bearer Drama [ ] Alana Valentine , The Sugar House Biographies and memoirs [ ] Peter FitzSimons , Monash's Masterpiece Jacqui Lambie , Rebel with a Cause: You can't keep a bloody Lambie down — my story from soldier to senator and beyond Bri Lee , Eggshell Skull Anne Summers , Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir Gillian Triggs , Speaking Up Nadia Wheatley , Her Mother's Daughter Non-fiction [ ] Cynthia Banham , A Certain Light Steve Biddulph , Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century: How To Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind And Strong Men Behrouz Boochani , No Friend But the Mountains Stephen Gapps, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817
Richard Glover , The Land Before Avocado Billy Griffiths , Deep Time Dreaming Anita Heiss (editor), Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia Thomas Keneally , Australians: A Short History Meredith Lake , The Bible in Australia: A cultural history Michael C Madden, The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers
Leigh Sales , Any Ordinary Day Awards and honours [ ] Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement [ ] Fiction [ ] National [ ] Children and Young Adult [ ] National [ ] Crime and Mystery [ ] National [ ]
Award
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
Davitt Award [11] Novel
Emma Viskic
And Fire Came Down
Ned Kelly Award [12] Novel
Sulari Gentill
Crossing the Lines
Pantera
First novel
Sarah Bailey
The Dark Lake
Allen & Unwin
Science Fiction [ ]
Award
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
Ditmar Award [13] Novel
Crossroads of Canopy
Tor
Best Novella or Novelette
"Girl Reporter"
Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers Publishing)
Best Short Story
Janeen Webb
"A Pearl Beyond Price"
Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1 (IFWG Publishing Australia)
Non-Fiction [ ] Poetry [ ] Drama [ ]
Award
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [6] Script (joint winners)
Amanda Blue and Jacob Hickey
Deep Water: The Real Story
Blackfella Films
Jane Campion and Gerard Lee
Birthday , Top of the Lake: China Girl, Series 2 Episode 4
See Saw Films
Play
Nakkiah Lui
Black is the New White
Sydney Theatre Company
Deaths [ ] 6 March – Peter Nicholls , 78, writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [16]
8 March – Peter Temple , 71, author of Jack Irish [17]
14 April – Frank Bren , 74, Australian actor and playwright (born 1943)[18]
16 April – Beverley Farmer , 77, novelist and short story writer (born 1941)[19]
1 June – Jill Ker Conway , 83, academic and memoir writer, author of The Road from Coorain [20]
2 June – Tony Morphett , 80, screenwriter and novelist
30 August – Peter Corris , 76, crime novelist (born 1942)[21]
31 August – Ian Jones , 86, author and television writer and director (born 1931)[22]
12 September – Albert Ullin OAM German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore, The Little Bookroom (born 1930)[23]
16 September – John Molony , 91, historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University (born 1927)[24]
6 October – James Cowan , 76, author (born 1942)[25]
21 October – Eleanor Witcombe , 95, screenwriter and playwright (born 1923)[26]
22 October
Anne Fairbairn , 90, poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture (born 1928)[27] Rose Zwi , 90, novelist (born 1928)[28]
22 November – Judith Rodriguez , 82, poet and academic (born 1936)[29] See also [ ] References [ ]
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^ "Eleanor Witcombe: Her brilliant career" . The Sydney Morning Herald . 13 November 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018 .^ "Anne Fairbairn passed away" . 25 October 2018.^ "RiP Rose Zwi" . Books+Publishing . 31 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2020 .^ "Judith Catherine Rodriguez" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 24 November 2018 .
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