2021 in Australian literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021.
Major publications[]
Literary fiction[]
- Larissa Behrendt, After Story
- Steven Carroll, O
- Nikki Gemmell, The Ripping Tree
- Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams
- John Kinsella, Pushing Back
- Emily Maguire, Love Objects
- Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
Children's and young adult fiction[]
- Felicity Castagna – Girls in Boys' Cars
Crime and thrillers[]
- Helen FitzGerald, Ash Mountain
- Michael Robotham, When You Are Mine
Non-fiction[]
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, Coming of Age in the War on Terror
- Julia Banks, Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs
- Alison Croggon, Monsters: A reckoning
- Mehreen Faruqi, Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud
- Ross Garnaut, Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession
- Stan Grant, With the Falling of the Dusk
- Dale Kent, The Most I Could Be
- Scott Ludlam, Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next
- Mark McKenna, Return to Uluru
- Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement
Awards and honours[]
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement[]
Award | Author |
---|---|
Patrick White Award | Adam Aitken[1] |
Fiction[]
National[]
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Miles Franklin Award[2] | Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth | Text Publishing | |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[3] | Fiction | Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5] | Kate Grenville | A Room Made of Leaves | Text Publishing | |
Queensland Literary Awards[6] | Fiction | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Hachette Australia |
Stella Prize[7] | Evie Wyld | The Bass Rock | Penguin Random House | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[8][9] | Literature | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | Scribe |
Fiction | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | Scribe |
Children and Young Adult[]
National[]
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book of the Year Award[10] | Older Readers | Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger than Love | Text |
Younger Readers | Kate Gordon | Aster's Good, Right Things | Riveted Press | |
Picture Book | Meg McKinlay, illus. Matt Ottley | How to Make a Bird | Walker Books | |
Early Childhood | Libby Hathorn & Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, illus. Mel Pearce | No! Never! | Lothian Books | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Pamela Freeman, illus. Liz Anelli | Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu | Walker Books | |
Nan Chauncy Award[11] | Jan Nicholls | |||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5] | Children's | Amelia Mellor | The Grandest Bookshop in the World | Affirm |
Young People's | Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger than Love | Text | |
Queensland Literary Awards[6] | Children's | Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Dub Leffler | Bindi | Magabala Books |
Young Adult | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Text | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Young Adult Fiction | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Text |
Non-Fiction[]
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
National Biography Award[12] | Biography | Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5] | Non-Fiction | Kate Fullagar | The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire | Yale University Press |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[13] | Australian History | Grace Karskens | People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia | Allen & Unwin |
Community and Regional History | Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling people and environment | Matthew Colloff | Thames & Hudson | |
General History | Luke Keogh | The Wardian Case: How a simple box moved plants and changed the world | The University of Chicago Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards[6] | Non-Fiction | Luke Stegemann | Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory | NewSouth Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Non-Fiction | Paddy Manning | Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us | Simon & Schuster |
Poetry[]
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Anne Elder Award[14] | Ella Jeffery | Dead Bolt | Puncher & Wattmann |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5] | Ellen van Neerven | Throat | University of Queensland Press |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[6] | Ouyang Yu | Terminally Poetic | Ginninderra Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9] | David Stavanger | Case Notes | UWA Publishing |
Drama[]
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5] | Script | Laurence Billiet | Freeman | General Strike and Matchbox Pictures |
Play | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk | The Street Theatre | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Angus Cerini | Wonnangatta | Sydney Theatre Company |
Deaths[]
- 1 May – Kate Jennings, poet and writer (died in the United States)(b. 1948)[15]
- 25 April – Valerie Parv, romance novelist (b. 1951)
- 16 May – Vera Deacon, historian (b. 1926)[16]
- 16 September – Tim Thorne, poet (b. 1944)[17]
- 22 November –
- 26 December – Paul B. Kidd, radio broadcaster and true crime writer (b. 1945)[20]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "$60,000 Miles Franklin awarded to a novel 'soaked in sadness' that is ultimately about hope". ABC News. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "PMLA 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d e "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d e "'Eight jobs at once and no sick days': $60,000 prizes a welcome relief for young writer". www.abc.net.au. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Winners announced for 2021 Queensland Literary Awards". Queensland Government: Ministerial Media Statements. 9 September 2021. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize". ArtsHub. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Pandemic novel wins Australia's richest literary prize". Books+Publishing. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d e "McKay wins $100k Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Nicholls wins 2021 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Radio. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "NSW Premier's History Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Jeffrey wins 2020 Anne Elder Award for 'Dead Bolt'". Books+Publishing. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Haigh, Gideon (2 May 2021). "Expat writer Kate Jennings had a voice both fierce and fun". The Australian. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "Newcastle loses a legend: Vera Deacon passes away, aged 94". Newcastle Herald. 18 May 2021. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Timothy Colin Thorne – Death Notice". The Advocate. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Celebrated historians Babette Smith, Stuart Macintyre have died (subscription required)
- ^ "Vale Doug MacLeod". Books+Publishing. 1 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ White, Daniella (27 December 2021). "Veteran Australian radio broadcaster Paul B. Kidd dies, aged 76". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
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