2020 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020.

Major publications

Literary fiction

Patrick Allington, Rise & Shine
Robbie Arnott, The Rain Heron
James Bradley, Ghost Species
Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
Jon Doust, Return Ticket
Chris Flynn, Mammoth
Anna Goldsworthy, Melting Moments
Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
Tom Keneally, The Dickens Boy
Bem Le Hunte, Elephants with Headlights
Sofie Laguna, Infinite Splendours
Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
Laura Jean McKay, The Animals in That Country
Ronnie Scott, The Adversary
Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock

Children's and young adult fiction

Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Shaun Tan, Dog
Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

Crime

Anne Buist, The Long Shadow
Candice Fox, Gathering Dark
Dervla McTiernan, The Good Turn

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Max Barry, Providence

Poetry

Laurie Duggan, Homer Street
Michael Farrell, Family Trees
Kate Llewellyn, Harbour
Felicity Plunkett, A Kinder Sea
Ellen van Neerven
- Homeland Calling: Words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices (as editor)
- Throat

Non-fiction

Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark
Richard Fidler, The Golden Maze: A History of Prague
Michael Gawenda, The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Life
John Kinsella, Displaced: A Rural Life
Michael Gawenda, The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian
Sophie McNeill, We Can't Say We Didn't Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity
Brenda Niall, Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
Caroline Overington, Missing William Tyrrell
Christopher Pyne, The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble
Cassandra Pybus, Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
Miranda Tapsell, Top End Girl
Robert Tickner, Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion
Malcolm Turnbull, A Bigger Picture

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

Award	Author
Patrick White Award	Gregory Day[1]

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Miles Franklin Literary Award[2]	Fiction	Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin Random House
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[3]	Fiction	Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin Random House
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4]		Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin Random House
Queensland Literary Awards[5]	Fiction	Mirandi Riwoe	Stone Sky Gold Mountain	University of Queensland Press
Stella Prize[6]		Jess Hill	See What You Made Me Do	Black Inc
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8]	Literature	S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack	Counting and Cracking	Belvoir and Co-Curious
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8]	Fiction	Christos Tsiolkas	Damascus	Allen & Unwin

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[9]	Older Readers	Vikki Wakefield	This Is How We Change the Ending	Text Publishing
	Younger Readers	Pip Harry	The Little Wave	University of Queensland Press
	Picture Book	Chris McKimmie	I Need a Parrot	Ford Street
	Early Childhood	Frances Watts	My Friend Fred	Allen & Unwin
	Eve Pownall Award for Information Books	Bruce Pascoe	Young Dark Emu: A truer history	Magabala Books
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4]	Children's	Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley	Ella and the Ocean	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4]	Young People's	Karen Foxlee	Lenny's Book of Everything	Allen & Unwin
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8]	Young Adult Fiction	Helena Fox	How It Feels to Float	Pan Macmillan Australia

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[10]	Novel	Meg Mundell	The Trespassers	UQP
Ned Kelly Award[11]	Novel	Christian White	The Wife and the Widow	Affirm Press
Ned Kelly Award[11]	First novel	Natalie Conyer	Present Tense	Clan Destine Press

Science Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Ditmar Award[12]	Novel	Gillian Polack	The Year of the Fruit Cake	IFWG Publishing
Ditmar Award[12]	Best Short Fiction	Rivqa Rafael	"Whom My Soul Loves"

Non-Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
National Biography Award[13]	Biography	Patrick Mullins	Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon	Scribe Publications
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4]	Non-Fiction	Patrick Mullins	Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon	Scribe Publications
New South Wales Premier's History Awards	Australian History	James Dunk	Bedlam at Botany Bay	NewSouth Publishing[14]
	Community and Regional History	Callum Clayton-Dixon	Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of Colonial Apocalypse	Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation[15]
	General History	Kate Fullagar	The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire	Yale University Press[16]
Queensland Literary Awards[5]	Non-Fiction	Joe Gorman	Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland	University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8]	Non-Fiction	Christina Thompson	Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia	HarperCollins

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Anne Elder Award (joint winners)[17]	Cham Zhi Yi	blur by the	Subbed In
Anne Elder Award (joint winners)[17]	Gareth Sion Jenkins	Recipes for the Disaster	Five Islands Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4]	Peter Boyle	Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness	Vagabond Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8]	Charmaine Papertalk Green	Nganajungu Yagu	Cordite

Drama

Award	Category	Author	Title
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4]	Script	Kylie Boltin	Missing
	Script	The Cry, Episode 2	Jacquelin Perske
	Play	S. Shakthidharan	Counting and Cracking

Deaths

1 January – Alexander Frater, 82, travel writer and journalist[18]
20 January – Steph Bowe, 25, young adult novelist and blogger[19]
1 April – Bruce Dawe, 90, poet[20]
14 May – Judith Clarke, 76, writer for children and teenagers[21]
10 June – Jesse Blackadder, 56, novelist, screenwriter and journalist[22]
7 July – Elizabeth Harrower, 92, novelist[23]
10 September – Barbara Ker Wilson, 90, English-born Australian editor and novelist[24]
29 September – Ania Walwicz, poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist[25]
6 November – Gerald Stone, 87, journalist[26]
14 November – Greg Growden, 60, sports journalist, author and biographer[27]

References

"Day wins Patrick White Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
"Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin for 'The Yield'". Books+Publishing. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
"Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
Kim, Sharnie (4 September 2020). "Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards". ABC News. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
Convery, Stephanie (14 April 2020). "Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
"Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
"Christos Tsiolkas' 'Damascus' wins best fiction at VPLAs". Books+Publishing. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
"CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
"Davitt Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
"Ned Kelly Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
"2020 Ditmar Winners". Locus Online. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
"'Tiberius with a Telephone' wins National Biography Award". Books+Publishing. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
"Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
"NSW Community and Regional History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
"General History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
"Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award". Books+Publishing. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
Chesshyre, Robert (5 January 2020). "Obituary: Alexander Frater 1937-2020". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
Carmody, Broede (21 January 2020). "Great human': Tributes flow for YA author Steph Bowe". Sydney Morning-Herald.
Romei, Stephen (2 April 2020). "Australian poet Bruce Dawe dies, aged 90". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
"Vale Judith Clarke". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
Moran, Robert. "Award-winning author Jesse Blackadder dies, aged 56". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
"Obituary - Elizabeth Harrower - Obituaries Australia". oa.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
"Barbara Ker Wilson". My Tributes. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
"Ania Walwicz Death Notice - Melbourne, Victoria | The Age". tributes.theage.com.au. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
Idato, Michael (6 November 2020). "60 minutes trailblazer and legendary TV producer Gerald Stone dead". The Age. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
FitzSimons, Peter (14 November 2020). "Vale Greg Growden, you will be long remembered". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

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[1] "Day wins Patrick White Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

[2] "Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin for 'The Yield'". Books+Publishing. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.

[3] "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.

[NSW2020-4] Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.

[:2-5] Kim, Sharnie (4 September 2020). "Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards". ABC News. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

[6] Convery, Stephanie (14 April 2020). "Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

[:0-7] "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

[:1-8] "Christos Tsiolkas' 'Damascus' wins best fiction at VPLAs". Books+Publishing. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

[9] "CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.

[10] "Davitt Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.

[11] "Ned Kelly Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.

[12] "2020 Ditmar Winners". Locus Online. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

[13] "'Tiberius with a Telephone' wins National Biography Award". Books+Publishing. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.

[14] "Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.

[15] "NSW Community and Regional History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.

[16] "General History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.

[17] "Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award". Books+Publishing. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.

[18] Chesshyre, Robert (5 January 2020). "Obituary: Alexander Frater 1937-2020". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 January 2020.

[19] Carmody, Broede (21 January 2020). "Great human': Tributes flow for YA author Steph Bowe". Sydney Morning-Herald.

[Romei-20] Romei, Stephen (2 April 2020). "Australian poet Bruce Dawe dies, aged 90". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

[:12-21] "Vale Judith Clarke". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.

[22] Moran, Robert. "Award-winning author Jesse Blackadder dies, aged 56". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

[23] "Obituary - Elizabeth Harrower - Obituaries Australia". oa.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 12 July 2020.

[24] "Barbara Ker Wilson". My Tributes. Retrieved 3 December 2020.

[25] "Ania Walwicz Death Notice - Melbourne, Victoria | The Age". tributes.theage.com.au. Retrieved 16 October 2020.

[Idato-26] Idato, Michael (6 November 2020). "60 minutes trailblazer and legendary TV producer Gerald Stone dead". The Age. Retrieved 6 November 2020.

[27] FitzSimons, Peter (14 November 2020). "Vale Greg Growden, you will be long remembered". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

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2020 in Australian literature

Major publications

Literary fiction

Children's and young adult fiction

Crime

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Poetry

Non-fiction

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

National

National

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

See also

References