2013 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013.
- James Ley launches the Sydney Review of Books[1] to provide "an opportunity for Australia's critics to rediscover the art of literary criticism".[2]
- The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize is announced.[3]
- The shortlist of the Miles Franklin Award contains only female writers for the first time.[4]
- Nicole Bourke, writing under the pseudonym "N. A. Sulway", becomes the first Australian writer to win the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for her novel Rupetta.[5]
- Aora Children's Literature Research Centre in Sydney closes after 12 years of operation.[6]
- The Commonwealth Book Prize was discontinuted after 2013.[7]
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Debra Adelaide – Letter to George Clooney[8]
- Steven Carroll – A World of Other People
- J. M. Coetzee – The Childhood of Jesus
- Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Andrea Goldsmith – The Memory Trap[9]
- Ashley Hay – The Railwayman's Wife[10]
- Tom Keneally – Shame and the Captives[11]
- Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
- Melissa Lucashenko – Mullumbimby
- Colleen McCullough – Bittersweet[12]
- Fiona McFarlane – The Night Guest
- Alex Miller – Coal Creek
- Liane Moriarty – The Husband's Secret
- Di Morrissey – The Winter Sea[13]
- Cory Taylor – My Beautiful Enemy[14]
- Christos Tsiolkas – Barracuda[15]
- Felicity Volk – Lightning[16]
- Tim Winton – Eyrie
- Alexis Wright – The Swan Book
- Evie Wyld – All The Birds, Singing
Children's and young adult fiction
- A. J. Betts – Zac & Mia
- Alyssa Brugman – Alex as Well[17]
- J. C. Burke – Pretty Girl[18]
- Felicity Castagna – The Incredible Here and Now[19]
- Mem Fox
- Kerry Greenwood – Evan's Gallipoli: A Gripping Story of Unlikely Friendship and an Incredible Journey behind Enemy Lines[20]
- Richard Harland – Song of the Slums[21]
- Karen Healey – When We Wake[22]
- Melissa Keil – Life in Outer Space[23]
- Tania McCartney – An Aussie Year: Twelve Months in the Life of Australian Kids[24]
- James Phelan – 13[25]
- Fiona Wood – Wildlife[26]
Science fiction and fantasy
- Max Barry – Lexicon
- Greg Egan
- Jennifer Fallon – Reunion[27]
- Traci Harding – Dreaming of Zhou Gong[28]
- Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: Safe Art[29]
- Fiona McIntosh – The Scrivener's Tale[30]
- Juliet Marillier – The Caller[31]
- N. A. Sulway – Rupetta
Crime and mystery
- Honey Brown – Dark Horse
- Peter Corris – The Dunbar Case
- Garry Disher – Bitter Wash Road[32]
- Karen Foxlee – The Midnight Dress[33]
- Poppy Gee – Bay of Fires[34]
- Katherine Howell – Web of Deceit[35]
- Stuart Littlemore —Harry Curry: Rats and Mice[36]
- Adrian McKinty – I Hear the Sirens in the Street[37]
- Barry Maitland – The Raven's Eye[38]
- Matthew Reilly – The Tournament[39]
- Michael Robotham – Watching You[40]
- Angela Savage – The Dying Beach[41]
- David Whish-Wilson – Zero at the Bone[42]
- Chris Womersley – Cairo
Poetry
- Pamela Brown – Home by Dark[43]
- Lisa Gorton
- John Kinsella – The Vision of Error: A Sextet of Activist Poems[46]
- Kate Middleton – Ephemeral Waters[47]
- Geoff Page
- Dorothy Porter – The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter[50]
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe – New and Selected Poems[51]
Biography
- Alison Alexander – The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer[52]
- Andrew Burell – Twiggy: The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest[53]
- Gabrielle Carey – Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family[54]
- Matthew Condon – Three Crooked Kings[55]
- David Day – Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson[56]
- Stephen Dando-Collins – Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus[57]
- Jesse Fink – The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC[58]
- Peter FitzSimons – Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend[59]
- David Marr – The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell[60]
- Kristina Olsson – Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir[61]
- Michael Pembroke – Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy[62]
- Margaret Simons – Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man[63]
- Helen Trinca – Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St. John[64]
- Clare Wright – The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka[65]
Non-fiction
- Paul Barry – Breaking News : Sex, Lies & the Murdoch Succession[66]
- Susanna de Vries – Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front[67]
- John Safran – Murder in Mississippi: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[68] | Judith Beveridge |
| Patrick White Award[69] | Louis Nowra |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[70] | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Allen & Unwin |
| Colin Roderick Award[71] | Ashley Hay | The Railwayman's Wife | Allen & Unwin |
| Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Black Pepper | |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[72] | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans | Vintage Australia |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[73] | Annah Faulkner | The Beloved | Picador |
| Stella Prize[74] | Carrie Tiffany | Mateship with Birds | Pan Macmillan |
| Victorian Prize for Literature[75] | Not awarded | ||
Fiction
International
| Award | Region | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Book Prize[76] | Pacific | Michael Sala | The Last Thread | Affirm Press |
National
Children and young adult
National
Crime and mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[86] | Novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan |
| Young adult novel | Jennifer Walsh | The Tunnels of Tarcoola | Allen & Unwin | |
| True Crime | Pamela Burton | The Waterlow Killings | Melbourne University Press | |
| Debut novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan | |
| Readers' choice | Kerry Greenwood | Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery | NewSouth Publishing | |
| Ned Kelly Award[87] | Novel | Geoffrey McGeachin | Blackwattle Creek | Penguin Books |
| First novel | Zane Lovitt | The Midnight Promise | Text Publishing | |
| True crime | Robin de Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Viking | |
| Lifetime Achievement | Not awarded | |||
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Max Barry | Lexicon | Hachette |
| SF Short Story | Kaaron Warren | "Air, Water, and the Grove" | Pandemonimum Press (The Lowest Heaven) | |
| Fantasy Novel | Mitchell Hogan | A Crucible of Souls | Mitchell Hogan | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Jay Kristoff | "The Last Stormdancer" | Thomas Dunne Books | |
| Horror Novel | Allyse Near | Fairytales for Wilde Girls | Random House Australia | |
| Horror Short Story | Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | |
| Anthology | Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene | The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror | Ticonderoga Publications | |
| Tehani Wessely | One Small Step, An Anthology of Discoveries | FableCroft Publishing | ||
| Collection | Joanne Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
| Australian Shadows Awards | Novel | Marty Young | 809 Jacob Street | Black Beacon Books |
| Long Fiction | Kaaron Warren | "The Unwanted Women of Surrey" | Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling | |
| Short Fiction | Debbie Cowens | "Caterpillars" | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror edited by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray | |
| Edited Publication | Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray, editors | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | Paper Road Press | |
| Collected Works | Jo Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and other stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen & Unwin |
| Novella/Novelette | Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) | |
| Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "The Wisdom of Ants" | Clarkesworld 75 | |
| Collected Work | Kaaron Warren, edited by Alisa Krasnostein | Through Splintered Walls | Twelfth Planet Press | |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[77] | Not awarded | ||
| Anne Elder Award[88] | Elizabeth Allen | Body Language | Vagabond Press |
| Mary Gilmore Prize[89] | Not awarded | ||
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[81] | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully: Poems | W. W. Norton |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[82] | Ali Cobby Eckermann | Ruby Moonlight | Magabala Books |
| Queensland Literary Awards[83] | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully: Poems | W. W. Norton |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[75] | Not awarded | ||
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[84] | Not awarded | ||
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[82] | Play | Reg Cribb | The Damned | The Yellow Agency |
| Script | Louise Fox | Dead Europe | See Saw Films; Porchlight Films | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[90] | Award | Chris Summers | King Artur | |
| Fellowship | Angela Betzien |
