2011 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011.
- 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
- Tony Birch – Blood
- Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing[10]
- Annah Faulkner – The Beloved[11]
- Anna Funder – All That I Am
- Kate Grenville – Sarah Thornhill
- Gail Jones – Five Bells
- Jeanine Leane – Purple Threads
- Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
- Alex Miller – Autumn Laing
- Frank Moorhouse – Cold Light
- Liane Moriarty – The Hypnotist's Love Story
- Favel Parrett – Past The Shallows
- Elliot Perlman – The Street Sweeper
- Craig Sherborne – The Amateur Science of Love[12]
- Cory Taylor – Me and Mr Booker[13]
- Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party
- Charlotte Wood – Animal People[14]
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Alexandra Adornetto – Hades[15]
- Em Bailey – Shift[16]
- J. C. Burke – Pig Boy
- Isobelle Carmody – The Sending
- Ursula Dubosarsky – The Golden Day
- Scott Gardner – The Dead I Know[17]
- Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails[18]
- Andrew McGahan – The Coming of the Whirlpool[19]
- Melina Marchetta – Froi of the Exiles[20]
- Vikki Wakefield – All I Ever Wanted[21]
- Scott Westerfeld – Goliath
Science fiction and fantasy
- Max Barry – Machine Man
- Trudi Canavan – The Rogue
- Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
- Will Elliott – Shadow[22]
- Kim Falconer – Road to the Soul[23]
- Pamela Freeman – Ember and Ash[24]
- Richard Harland – Liberator[25]
- Glenda Larke – Stormlord's Exile[26]
- Kim Westwood – The Courier's New Bicycle
Crime and mystery
- Alan Carter – Prime Cut[27]
- Peter Corris – Follow the Money[28]
- Garry Disher – Whispering Death[29]
- Sulari Gentill – A Decline in Prophets
- Kerry Greenwood – Cooking the Books[30]
- Malcolm Knox – The Life
- Stuart Littlemore – Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice[31]
- Barry Maitland – Chelsea Mansions[32]
- Kel Robertson – Rip Off[33]
- Michael Robotham – The Wreckage[34]
Poetry
- Ali Alizadeh – Ashes in the Air[35]
- Joanne Burns – Amphora[36]
- Barry Hill – Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings[37]
- John Kinsella – Armour[38]
- Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited)[39]
- Jaya Savige – Surface to Air[40]
Biography
- Julian Assange – Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography[41]
- A. J. Brown – Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles[42]
- Eileen Chanin – Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907[43]
- Raimond Gaita – After Romulus[44]
- Mark McKenna – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark[45]
- Susan Mitchell – Tony Abbott: A Man's Man[46]
- Christine Nixon – Fair Cop[47]
- Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story[48]
- Alice Pung – Her Father's Daughter[49]
- David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History[50]
- Sarah Watt & William McInnes – Worse Things Happen at Sea[51]
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[52] | Jennifer Harrison |
| Patrick White Award[53] | Robert Adamson |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year[54] | Fiona McGregor | Indelible Ink | Scribe Publishing |
| ALS Gold Medal[55] | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Picador |
| Colin Roderick Award[56] | Karen Kissane | Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm | Hachette Australia |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | Anh Do | The Happiest Refugee | Allen & Unwin |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[58] | Brenda Walker | Reading by Moonlight | Hamish Hamilton |
| Victorian Prize for Literature[59] | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Picador |
Fiction
International
| Award | Region | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[60] | SE Asia and South Pacific | Best Book | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Picador |
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[71] | Novel | Katherine Howell | Cold Justice | Pan Macmillan |
| Young Adult novel | Penny Matthews | A Girl Like Me | Penguin | |
| True crime | Colleen Egan | Murderer No More | Allen & Unwin | |
| Readers' choice | P. M. Newton | The Old School | Viking | |
| Ned Kelly Award[72] | Novel | Geoffrey McGeachin | The Diggers Rest Hotel | Penguin Books |
| First novel | Alan Carter | Prime Cut | Fremantle Press | |
| True crime | Geesche Jacobsen | Abandoned - The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble | Allen & Unwin | |
| Lifetime achievement | Not awarded | |||
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 | |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[62] | John Tranter | Starlight: 150 Poems | University of Queensland Press |
| Anne Elder Award[73] | Rosanna Licari | The Weather of Tongues | Sunline |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[74] | Not awarded | ||
| Mary Gilmore Prize[75] | Not awarded | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[67] | Jennifer Maiden | Pirate Rain | Giramondo Publishing |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards[68] | John Tranter | Starlight: 150 Poems | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[59] | Cate Kennedy | The Taste of River Water | Scribe |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[69] | Tracy Ryan | The Argument | Fremantle Press |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[67] | Play | Patricia Cornelius | Do Not Go Gentle | Currency Press |
| Script | Debra Oswald | Offspring | Southern Star Entertainment | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[76] | Award | Phillip Kavanagh | Little Borders | |
| Fellowship | Patricia Cornelius |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
| 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[77] | Biography | Alasdair McGregor | Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin | Lantern |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | Non-Fiction | Anh Do | The Happiest Refugee | Allen & Unwin |
| 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[67] | 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[68] | 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[59] | 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 | |
