2021 in Australian literature

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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[]

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[]

  1. ^ "Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "$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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "PMLA 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b c d e "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize". ArtsHub. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Pandemic novel wins Australia's richest literary prize". Books+Publishing. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ a b c d e "McKay wins $100k Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "Nicholls wins 2021 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Radio. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  13. ^ "NSW Premier's History Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "Jeffrey wins 2020 Anne Elder Award for 'Dead Bolt'". Books+Publishing. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "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.
  17. ^ "Timothy Colin Thorne – Death Notice". The Advocate. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ a b Celebrated historians Babette Smith, Stuart Macintyre have died (subscription required)
  19. ^ "Vale Doug MacLeod". Books+Publishing. 1 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ 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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