2018 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.
Literary fiction
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Lebs
- Robbie Arnott – Flames
- Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe
- Gregory Day – A Sand Archive[1]
- Ceridwen Dovey – In the Garden of the Fugitives[2]
- Rodney Hall – A Stolen Season[3]
- Gail Jones – The Death of Noah Glass
- Eleanor Limprecht – The Passengers[4]
- Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip
- Liane Moriarty – Nine Perfect Strangers
- Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Kristina Olsson – Shell[5]
- Ryan O'Neill – The Drover's Wives[6]
- Kim Scott – Taboo[7]
- Tracy Sorensen – The Lucky Galah
- Elise Valmorbida – The Madonna of the Mountains
- Tim Winton – The Shepherd's Hut[8]
- Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Maxine Beneba Clarke – Wide Big World, illustrated by Isobel Knowles[9]
- Mem Fox – Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again, illustrated by Judy Horacek[10]
- Andy Griffiths – The 104-Storey Treehouse[11]
- Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekial Kwaymullina – Catching Teller Crow[12]
- Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave[13]
- Shaun Tan
- Lili Wilkinson – After the Lights Go Out[16]
Crime and Mystery
- Garry Disher – Kill Shot[17]
- Candice Fox – Redemption Point[18]
- Kerry Greenwood – The Spotted Dog[19]
- Chris Hammer – Scrublands
- Jane Harper – The Lost Man
- Dervla McTiernan – The Rúin
- Kate Morton – The Clockmaker's Daughter[20]
- Michael Robotham – The Other Wife[21]
- Sue Williams – Live and Let Fry[22]
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Alan Baxter
- Kylie Chan – Scales of Empire[25]
- Traci Harding – This Present Past[26]
- Sam Hawke – City of Lies
- Jennifer Mills – Dyschronia[27]
- Kaaron Warren – Tide of Stone[28]
Poetry
- Jordie Albiston – Warlines[29]
- Judith Beveridge – Sun Music: New and Selected Poems[30]
- Ken Bolton – Starting at Basheer's[31]
- Sarah Day – Towards Light & Other Poems[32]
- Brook Emery ed. — Naming the Particulars[33]
- Paul Hetherington – Moonlight on Oleander[34]
- Bella Li – Lost Lake[35]
- John Mateer – João[36]
- Tim Metcalf – The Underwritten Plain[37]
- Tracy Ryan – The Water Bearer[38]
Drama
- Alana Valentine – The Sugar House[39]
- David Williamson – Nearer the Gods
Biographies and memoirs
- Peter FitzSimons – Monash's Masterpiece [40]
- Jacqui Lambie – Rebel with a Cause: You can't keep a bloody Lambie down — my story from soldier to senator and beyond[41]
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie – The Erratics[42]
- Bri Lee – Eggshell Skull
- Anne Summers – Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir[43]
- Gillian Triggs – Speaking Up[44]
- Nadia Wheatley – Her Mother's Daughter[45]
Non-fiction
- Cynthia Banham – A Certain Light[46]
- Steve Biddulph – Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century: How To Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind And Strong Men[47]
- Behrouz Boochani – No Friend But the Mountains
- Stephen Gapps – The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817[48]
- Richard Glover – The Land Before Avocado[49]
- Billy Griffiths – Deep Time Dreaming[50]
- Anita Heiss (editor) – Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia[51]
- Chloe Hooper – The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire[52]
- Thomas Keneally – Australians: A Short History[53]
- Meredith Lake – The Bible in Australia: A cultural history[54]
- Michael C. Madden – The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers[55]
- Leigh Sales – Any Ordinary Day[56]
- Maria Tumarkin – Axiomatic
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Melbourne Prize for Literature[57] | Alison Lester |
| Mona Brand Award[58] | Patricia Cornelius |
| Patrick White Award[59] | Samuel Wagan Watson |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[60] | Shastra Deo | The Agonist | University of Queensland Press |
| Colin Roderick Award[61] | Jock Serong | On the Java Ridge | Text Publishing |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[62] | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Lothian |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[63] | Fiona McFarlane | The High Places | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Stella Prize[64] | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Giramondo |
| Victorian Prize for Literature[65] | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster |
Text Publishing |
Fiction
International
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staunch Book Prize[66] | Jock Serong | On the Java Ridge | Text Publishing |
National
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[67] | Eva Hornung | The Last Garden | Text Publishing |
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[68] | Emily O'Grady | The Yellow House | Allen & Unwin |
| Barbara Jefferis Award[69] | Libby Angel | The Trapeze Act | Text Publishing |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[62] | Sofie Laguna | The Choke | Allen & Unwin |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[62] | Mark Brandi | Wimmera | Hachette Australia |
| Miles Franklin Award[70][71] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[72] | Gerald Murnane | Border Districts | Giramondo |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Bram Presser | The Book of Dirt | Text Publishing |
| Queensland Literary Awards[74] | Kim Scott | Taboo | Pan Macmillan |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[65] | Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Text Publishing |
| Voss Literary Prize[75] | Bram Presser | The Book of Dirt | Text Publishing |
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[76] | 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 | |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[62] | Children's | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Lothian |
| Young Adult | Mark Smith | Wilder Country | Text Publishing | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Children's | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Allen & Unwin |
| Young People's | Zana Fraillon | The Ones That Disappeared | Lothian | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[65] | Young Adult Fiction | Demet Divaroren | Living on Hope Street | Allen & Unwin |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[77] | Novel | Emma Viskic | And Fire Came Down | Echo Books |
| Young adult novel | Vikki Wakefield | Ballad for a Mad Girl | Text Publishing | |
| Children's novel | Allison Rushby | The Turnkey | Walker Books | |
| True crime | Gabriella Coslovich | Whitely on Trial | Melbourne University Press | |
| Debut novel | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Allen & Unwin | |
| Readers' choice | Jane Harper | Force of Nature | Pan Macmillan | |
| Ned Kelly Award[78] | Novel | Sulari Gentill | Crossing the Lines | Pantera |
| First novel | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Allen & Unwin | |
| True crime | Graham Archer | Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney |
Random House | |
| Lifetime achievement | Garry Disher | |||
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ditmar Award[79] | Novel | Thoraiya Dyer | Crossroads of Canopy | Tor |
| Best Novella or Novelette | Tansy 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) | |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[67] | Pam Brown | Missing Up | Vagabond Press |
| Anne Elder Award[80] | Rico Craig | Bone Ink | Guillotine Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[81] | Quinn Eades | Rallying | UWA Publishing |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[72] | Brian Castro | Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria | Giramondo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
| Queensland Literary Awards[74] | Michael Farrell | I Love Poetry | Giramondo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[65] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[73] | 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 | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[82] | Award | Mark Rogers | Superheroes | Griffin Theatre Company |
| Fellowship | Nakkiah Lui |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[67] | Non-Fiction | Tim Winton | The Boy Behind the Curtain | Penguin Books |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[62] | Non-Fiction | Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason | Saga Land | HarperCollins |
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters | Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants | Thames & hudson | |
| National Biography Award[83] | Biography | Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Non-Fiction | Paul Ham | Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth | William Heinemann Australia |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[84] | 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[74] | Non-Fiction | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Giramondo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[65] | Non-fiction | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing |
