2011 in Australian 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

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Crime and Mystery

Poetry

Biography

  • Julian AssangeJulian 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 GaitaAfter Romulus
  • Mark McKennaAn Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark
  • Susan MitchellTony Abbott: A Man's Man
  • Christine NixonFair Cop
  • Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story
  • Alice PungHer Father's Daughter
  • David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History
  • Sarah Watt, William McInnesWorse Things Happen at Sea

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Award Author
Christopher Brennan Award Jennifer Harrison
Patrick White Award Robert Adamson

International

Award Region Category Author Title Publisher
Commonwealth Writers' Prize SE Asia and South Pacific Best Book Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador

National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Fiction Fiona McGregor Indelible Ink Scribe Publications
ALS Gold Medal Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador
Barbara Jefferis Award G.L. Osborne Come Inside Clouds of Magellan
Colin Roderick Award Gillian Mears Foal's Bread Allen and Unwin
Miles Franklin Award Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador
Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction Stephen Daisley Traitor Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Fiction Alex Miller Lovesong Allen & Unwin
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Fiction Amanda Lohrey Reading Madame Bovary Black Inc.
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Fiction Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Fiction Anna Funder All That I Am Penguin Books

National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award Older Readers Sonya Hartnett The Midnight Zoo Viking Books
Younger Readers Isobelle Carmody The Red Wind Viking Books
Picture Book Jeanie Baker Mirror Walker Books
Nicki Greenberg Hamlet Allen & Unwin
Early Childhood Jan Ormerod, illus. Freya Blackwood Maudie Bear Little Hare Books
Davitt Award Young Adult Novel Penny Matthews A Girl Like Me Penguin Group
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Children's Sophie Masson My Australian Story: The Hunt for Ned Kelly Scholastic Australia
Young People's Cath Crowley Graffiti Moon Pan Macmillan Australia
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Children's Michael Gerard Bauer Just a Dog Omnibus Books
Young Adult Barry Jonsberg Being Here Allen & Unwin
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction Cassandra Golds The Three Loves of Persimmon Penguin Group
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Children's Michelle Gillespie & Sonia Martinez Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck Fremantle Press
Writing for Young Adults Penni Russon Only Ever Always Allen and Unwin

National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award Novel Katherine Howell Cold Justice Pan Macmillan
Ned Kelly Award Novel Geoffrey McGeachin The Diggers Rest Hotel Penguin Books
First novel Alan Carter Prime Cut Fremantle Press

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

Award Category Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Non-fiction Jim Davidson A Three-Cornered Life UNSW Press
Children's Book of the Year Award Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Ursula Dubosarsky, illus. Tohby Riddle The Return of the Word Spy Viking Books
Davitt Award True crime Colleen Egan Murderer No More Allen & Unwin
National Biography Award Alasdair McGregor Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin Lantern
Prime Minister's Literary Awards Non-fiction Rod Moss The Hard Light of Day University of Queensland Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs Melbourne University Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards Australian History Penny Russell Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia UNSW Press
Community and Regional History Stephen Gapps Cabrogal to Fairfield City: A History of a Multicultural Community Fairfield City Council
General History Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson and Graham White Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars Harvard University Press
Young People's Kirsty Murray India Dark Allen & Unwin
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark Melbourne University Publishing
History Alan Powell Northern Voyagers: Australia's monsoon coast in maritime history Australian Scholarly Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-fiction Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark Melbourne University Publishing
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Non-fiction Alice Pung Her Father's Daughter Black Inc.
Western Australian history Fiona Skyring Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia University of Western Australia Press

Poetry

Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year John Tranter Starlight: 150 Poems University of Queensland Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Jennifer Maiden Pirate Rain Giramondo Publishing
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards John Tranter Starlight: 150 Poems University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Cate Kennedy The Taste of River Water Scribe
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Tracy Ryan The Argument Fremantle Press

Drama

Award Category Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Play Patricia Cornelius Do Not Go Gentle Currency Press
Script Debra Oswald Offspring Southern Star Entertainment
Patrick White Playwrights' Award Award Phillip Kavanagh Little Borders
Fellowship Patricia Cornelius

Deaths

See also

References

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