2014 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014.
- The State Library of Queensland takes over the running the Queensland Literary Awards which had previously been run by a group of volunteers.[1]
- The Voss Literary Prize is awarded for the first time.[2]
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Tribe
- Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies
- Emily Bitto – The Strays
- Peter Carey – Amnesia
- Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles
- Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys
- Mark Henshaw – The Snow Kimono
- Janette Turner Hospital – The Claimant[3]
- Wendy James – The Lost Girls[4]
- Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep
- Joan London – The Golden Age
- Suzanne McCourt – The Lost Child[5]
- Liane Moriarty – Big Little Lies
- Gerald Murnane – A Million Windows[6]
- Omar Musa – Here Come the Dogs[7]
- Favel Parrett – When the Night Comes[8]
- Christine Piper – After Darkness
- Craig Sherborne – Tree Palace
- Inga Simpson – Nest[9]
- Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect
- Christos Tsiolkas – Merciless Gods[10]
- Rohan Wilson – To Name Those Lost
Short stories
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Trace Balla – Rivertime[11]
- Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy[12]
- Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures[13]
- Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli (illustrated by Annie White)[14]
- Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse[15]
- Rebecca James – Cooper Bartholomew is Dead[16]
- Ambelin Kwaymullina – The Lost Girl
- Alison Lester – Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach
- Rebecca Lim – The Astrologer's Daughter[17]
- Doug MacLeod – Tigers on the Beach[18]
- John Marsden – South of Darkness[19]
- Alice Pung – Laurinda[20]
- Diana Sweeney – The Minnow[21]
- Claire Zorn – The Protected[22]
Crime
- Honey Brown – Through the Cracks[23]
- Peter Corris – Silent Kill
- Candice Fox – Eden
- Katherine Howell – Deserving Death[24]
- Barry Maitland – Crucifixion Creek[25]
- P. M. Newton – Beams Falling[26]
- Malla Nunn – Present Darkness[27]
- Michael Rowbotham – Life or Death
- Jock Serong – Quota
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Trudi Canavan – Thief's Magic[28]
- Kate Forsyth – Wolves of the Witchwood[29]
- Patrick Holland – Navigatio[30]
- Juliet Marillier – The Cracks in the Kingdom[31]
- Garth Nix – Clariel
- Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China
- John A. Scott – N[32]
Drama
Poetry
- Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems[33]
- Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford (edited by Oliver Dennis)[34]
- Gwen Harwood – The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
- John Kinsella – Sack[35]
- Geoffrey Lehmann – Poems 1957–2013[36]
- Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
- David Malouf – Earth Hour[37]
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe – My Feet are Hungry[38]
Biographies
- Bob Brown – Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action[39]
- Phil Butterss – An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis[40]
- Matthew Condon – Jacks and Jokers[41]
- Robert Dessaix – What Days Are For[42]
- Rafael Epstein – Prisoner X[43]
- Julia Gillard – My Story
- Dino Hodge – Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography[44]
- John Howard – The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia[45]
- Erik Jensen – Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen[46]
- Madonna King – Hockey : Not Your Average Joe[47]
- Elizabeth Morrison – David Syme : Man of the Age[48]
- Mandy Sayer – The Poet's Wife[49]
- David Walsh – A Bone of Fact[50]
Non-fiction
- Sophie Cunningham – Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy[51]
- Paul Kelly – Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation[52]
- Bruce Pascoe – Dark Emu
- Sam Vincent – Blood & Guts
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[53] | Alan Wearne |
| Patrick White Award[54] | Brian Castro |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[55] | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Giramondo Publishing |
| Colin Roderick Award[56] | Michael Wilding | Wild Bleak Bohemia : Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall - A Documentary |
Australian Scholarly |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Random House |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[58] | Kristina Olsson | Boy Lost: A Family Memoir | University of Queensland Press |
| Stella Prize[59] | Clare Wright | The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka | Text Publishing |
| Victorian Prize for Literature[60] | Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | Giramondo Publishing |
Fiction
International
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Man Booker Prize[61] | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Random House |
National
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[70] | Older Readers | Fiona Wood | Wildlife | Pan MacMillan |
| Younger Readers | Catherine Jinks | City of Orphans: A Very Unusual Pursuit | Allen & Unwin | |
| Picture Book | Freya Blackwood, text Irema Kobald | My Two Blankets | Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont | |
| Early Childhood | Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood | Go to Sleep, Jessie! | Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont | |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | Children's & YA | Alison Lester | Kissed by the Moon | Penguin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[67] | Children's | Katrina Nannestad | The Girl Who Brought Mischief | HarperCollins |
| Young People's | AJ Betts | Zac and Mia | Text Publishing | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[60] | Young Adult Fiction | Barry Jonsberg | My Life as an Alphabet | Allen and Unwin |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[71] | Novel | Honey Brown | Dark Horse | Penguin Books |
| Young Adult novel | Karen Foxlee | The Midnight Dress | University of Queensland Press | |
| Children's novel | Jen Storer | Spooked! | HarperCollins | |
| True crime | Anna Krien | Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport | Black Inc | |
| Debut novel | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Pan Macmillan | |
| Readers' choice | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Pan Macmillan | |
| Ned Kelly Award[72] | Novel | Adrian McKinty | In The Morning I'll Be Gone | Allen and Unwin |
| First novel | Candice Fox | Hades | Random House, Australia | |
| True crime | John Saffran | Murder in Mississippi | Hamish Hamilton | |
| Lifetime achievement | Not awarded | |||
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Marianne de Pierres | Peacemaker | Angry Robot |
| Sf Short Story | Thoraiya Dye | "Wine, Women, and Stars" | Analog | |
| Fantasy Novel | Juliet Marillier | Dreamer's Pool | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Angela Slatter | "St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls" | Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3 | |
| Horror Novel | Justine Larbalestier | Razorhurst | Allen and Unwin | |
| Horror Short Story | Angela Slatter | "Home and Hearth" | Spectral Press (Home and Hearth) | |
| Young Adult Novel | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Cracks in the Kingdom | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
| Young Adult Short Story | Dirk Flinthart | "Vanilla" | Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope) | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Robert Hood | Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead | Wildside Press |
| Best Novella or Novelette | Kirstyn McDermott | "The Home for Broken Dolls" | Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press) | |
| Best Short Story | Cat Sparks | "Scarp" | The Bride Price (Ticonderoga Publications) | |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[62] | Lisa Jacobson | The Sunlit Zone | 5 Islands Press |
| Anne Elder Award[73] | Vanessa Page | Confessional Box | Walleah Press |
| Mary Gilmore Prize[74] | Rose Lucas | Even in the Dark | UWA Publishing |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[66] | Melinda Smith | Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call | Pitt Street Poetry |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[67] | Fiona Hile | Novelties | Hunter |
| Queensland Literary Awards[1] | David Malouf | Earth Hour | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[60] | Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | Giramondo Publishing |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[69] | Paul Hetherington | Six Different Windows | UWA Publishing |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[67] | Script | Kris Mrksa | Devil's Dust | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[75] | Award | Debra Thomas | The Man's Bitch | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Fellowship | Kate Mulvany | |||
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[60] | Drama | Patricia Cornelius | Savages | Playlab |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[62] | Non-Fiction | Kate Richards | Madness: A Memoir | Penguin Books |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | Non-Fiction | David Hunt | Girt | Black Inc. |
| National Biography Award[76] | Biography | Alison Alexander | The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[67] | Non-Fiction | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir | University of Queensland Press |
| Michael Fullilove | Rendezvous with Destiny | Penguin Books | ||
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Joan Beaumont | Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War | Allen & Unwin |
| Community and Regional History | Ian Hoskins | Coast: A History of the New South Wales Edge | NewSouth | |
| General History | John Gascoigne | Encountering the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment | Cambridge University Press | |
| Young People's | Nadia Wheatley, illustrated by Ken Searle | Australians All | Allen & Unwin | |
| Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Paul Ham | 1914: The Year the World Ended | Random House Australia |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[60] | Non-fiction | Henry Reynolds | Forgotten War | NewSouth |