2018 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.

Major publications

Literary fiction

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Crime

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Poetry

Drama

Biographies and memoirs

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

Award Author
Patrick White Award[1] Samuel Wagan Watson

National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[2] Emily O'Grady The Yellow House Allen & Unwin
Miles Franklin Award[3][4] Michelle de Kretser The Life to Come Allen & Unwin
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[5] Fiction Gerald Murnane Border Districts Giramondo
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6] Fiction Bram Presser The Book of Dirt Text Publishing
Queensland Literary Awards[7] Fiction Kim Scott Taboo Pan Macmillan
Stella Prize[8] Alexis Wright Tracker Giramondo
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[9] Fiction Melanie Cheng Australia Day Text Publishing

National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[10] Older Readers Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell Take Three Girls Pan Macmillan
Younger Readers Bren MacDibble How to Bee Allen & Unwin
Picture Book Gwyn Perkins A Walk in the Bush Affirm Press
Early Childhood Michael Gerard Bauer; Chrissie Krebs (illustrator) Rodney Loses It! Omnibus Books
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Idan Ben-Barak, illus. Julian Frost Do Not Lick This Book Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6] Children's Bren MacDibble How to Bee Allen & Unwin
Young People's Zana Fraillon The Ones That Disappeared Lothian
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[9] Young Adult Fiction Demet Divaroren Living on Hope Street Allen & Unwin

National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[11] Novel Emma Viskic And Fire Came Down Echo Books
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 Thoralya Dyer Crossroads of Canopy Tor
Best Novella or Novelette Tansey Rayner Roberts "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

Award Category Author Title Publisher
National Biography Award[14] Biography Judith Brett The Enigmatic Mr Deakin Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6] Non-Fiction Paul Ham Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth William Heinemann Australia
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[15] Australian History Christina Twomey The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia NewSouth Publishing
Community and Regional History Paul Irish Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney NewSouth Publishing
General History Sean Scalmer On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia Temple University Press
Queensland Literary Awards[7] Non-Fiction Alexis Wright Tracker Giramondo Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[9] Non-fiction Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster Text Publishing

Poetry

Award Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6] Bella Li Argosy Vagabond Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[9] Bella Li Argosy Vagabond Press

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

See also

References

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  2. "Brisbane author Emily O'Grady wins $20,000 Vogel Literary Award". ABC News. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  3. "Miles Franklin Literary Awards Applications | Perpetual | Perpetual". www.perpetual.com.au. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  4. "Michelle de Kretser wins her second Miles Franklin award with The Life To Come". ABC News. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. "Winners announced for PM's literary awards 2018". Books+Publishing. 5 December 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
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