2019 in Australian literature

• Tony Birch – The White Girl^[1]
• David Brooks – The Grass Library^[2]
• Steven Carroll – The Year of the Beast^[3]
• Melanie Cheng – Room for a Stranger^[4]
• Peggy Frew – Islands^[5]
• Peter Goldsworthy – Minotaur^[6]
• John Hughes – No One^[7]
• Anna Krien – Act of Grace^[8]
• Melina Marchetta – The Place on Dalhousie^[9]
• Andrew McGahan – The Rich Man's House (posthumous)
• Gerald Murnane – A Season on Earth^[10]
• Favel Parrett – There Was Still Love
• Heather Rose – Bruny^[11]
• Philip Salom – The Returns^[12]
• Carrie Tiffany – Exploded View^[13]
• Lucy Treloar – Wolfe Island^[14]
• Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus
• Tara June Winch – The Yield
• Charlotte Wood – The Weekend

• Debra Adelaide – Zebra: And Other Stories^[15]
• Yumna Kassab – The House of Youssef^[16]
• Josephine Rowe – Here Until August^[17]

• Alison Evans – Highway Bodies
• Mem Fox – The Tiny Star
• Helena Fox – How It Feels to Float^[18]
• Will Kostakis – Monuments^[19]
• Tania McCartney – Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures^[20]
• Meg McKinlay – Catch a Falling Star^[21]
• Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu^[22]
• Holden Sheppard – Invisible Boys^[23]
• Vikki Wakefield – This is How We Change the Ending^[24]

• Matthew Condon – The Night Dragon^[25]
• Pip Drysdale – The Strangers We Know^[26]
• Candice Fox – Gone By Midnight^[27]
• Nick Gadd – Death of a Typographer^[28]
• Tara Moss – Dead Man Switch^[29]
• Michael Robotham – Good Girl, Bad Girl
• Dave Warner – River of Salt^[30]
• Christian White – The Wife and the Widow

• John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars^[31]
• Claire G. Coleman – The Old Lie
• Greg Egan
  • The Best of Greg Egan
  • Perihelion Summer
  • "The Slipway"
  • "This Is Not the Way Home"
• Jay Kristoff – Darkdawn
• Garth Nix – Angel Mage

• Louise Crisp – Yuiquimbiang^[32]
• Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition^[33]
• Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu^[34]
• L. K. Holt – Birth Plan^[35]
• Gerald Murnane – Green Shadows and Other Poems^[36]
• Pi O – Heide^[37]

• Jane Caro – Accidental Feminists^[38]
• Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) – Growing Up African in Australia^[39]
• Helen Ennis – Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography^[40]
• Stan Grant
  • Australia Day^[41]
  • On Identity^[42]
• Nicholas Hasluck – Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir^[43]
• Jess Hill – See What You Made Me Do^[44]
• Jacqueline Kent – Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook^[45]
• Caro Llewellyn – Diving into Glass^[46]
• Emily Maguire – This is What a Feminist Looks Like^[47]
• Bianca Nogrady (editor) – The Best Australian Science Writing 2019^[48]
• Christina Thompson – Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia^[49]

Summarize Timeline Top Qs Fact Check

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

Award	Author
Patrick White Award[50]	Jordie Albiston

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[51]	Pam Brown	click here for what we do	Vagabond Press
Colin Roderick Award[52]	Robert Drewe	The True Colour of the Sea	Hamish Hamilton
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[53]	Trent Dalton	Boy Swallows Universe	Fourth Estate
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[54]	Billy Griffiths	Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia	Black Inc
Stella Prize[55]	Vicki Laveau-Harvie	The Erratics	Fourth Estate
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56]	Behrouz Boochani	No Friend But the Mountains	Belvoir and Co-Curious

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[57]	Not awarded
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[58]	Not awarded
Barbara Jefferis Award[59]	Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[53]	Markus Zusak	Bridge of Clay	Picador
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[53]	Trent Dalton	Boy Swallows Universe	Fourth Estate
Miles Franklin Award[60]	Melissa Lucashenko	Too Much Lip	University of Queensland Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[61]	Gail Jones	The Death of Noah Glass	Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[62]	Michelle de Kretser	The Life to Come	Allen & Unwin
Queensland Literary Awards[63]	Carrie Tiffany	Exploded View	Text Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56]	Elise Valmorbida	The Madonna of the Mountains	Faber & Faber
Voss Literary Prize[64]	Tim Winton	The Shepherd's Hut	Hamish Hamilton

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[65]	Older Readers	Clare Atkins	Between Us	Black Inc.
	Younger Readers	Emily Rodda	His Name Was Walter	HarperCollins
	Picture Book	Shaun Tan	Cicada	Lothian
	Early Childhood	Alison Lester	Trick's Bad Day	Affirm
	Eve Pownall Award for Information Books	Coral Vass, illustrated by Dub Leffler	Sorry Day	National Library of Australia
	Nan Chauncy Award[66]	James Moloney
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[53]	Children's	Karen Foxlee	Lenny's Book of Everything	Allen & Unwin
	Young Adult	Barry Jonsberg	A Song Only I Can Hear	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[62]	Children's	Lorraine Marwood (joint winner)	Leave Taking	University of Queensland Press
		Claire Saxby and Tannya Harricks (joint winner)	Dingo	Walker Books
	Young People's	Erin Gough	Amelia Westlake	Hardie Grant Egmont
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56]	Young Adult Fiction	Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina	Catching Teller Crow	Allen & Unwin

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[67]	Novel	Dervla McTiernan	The Rúin	HarperCollins
	Young adult novel	Sarah Epstein	Small Spaces	Walker Books
	Children's novel	Judith Rossell	Wakestone Hall	ABC Books
	True crime	Chloe Hooper	The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire	Penguin
	Debut novel	Bri Lee	Eggshell Skull	Allen & Unwin
	Readers' choice	Jane Harper	The Lost Man	Pan Macmillan
Ned Kelly Award[68]	Novel	Jane Harper	The Lost Man	Pan Macmillan
	First novel	Dervla McTiernan	The Rúin	HarperCollins
	True crime	Bri Lee	Eggshell Skull	Allen & Unwin
	Lifetime achievement	Bob Bottom

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Ditmar Award[69]	Novel	Sam Hawke	City of Lies	Tor Books
	Best Novella or Novelette	Tansy Rayner Roberts	Cabaret of Monsters	self-published
	Best Short Story	Kathleen Jennings	"The Heart of Owl Abbas"	Tor.com

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[57]	Not awarded
Anne Elder Award[70]	Eunice Andrada	Flood Damages	Giramondo
Mary Gilmore Award[71]	Marjon Mossammaparast	That Sight	Cordite
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[61]	Judith Beveridge	Sun Music: New and Selected Poems	Giramondo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[62]	Judith Bishop	Interval	University of Queensland Press
Queensland Literary Awards[63]	Alison Whittaker	Blakwork	Magabala Books
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56]	Kate Lilley	Tilt	Vagabond Press

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[62]	Script	Benjamin Gilmour	Jirga	Felix Media Pty Ltd
	Play	Kendall Feaver	The Almighty Sometimes	Griffin Theatre
Patrick White Playwrights' Award[72]	Award	Keziah Warner	LuNa	Victorian College of the Arts
	Fellowship	Anchuli Felicia King

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[57]	Non-Fiction	Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[53]	Non-Fiction	Chloe Hooper	The Arsonist	Random House Australia
	Illustrated Non-Fiction	Marcia Langton	Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country	Hardie Grant Travel
National Biography Award[73]	Biography	Behrouz Boochani	No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison	Picador Australia
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[62]	Non-Fiction	Billy Griffiths (joint winner)	Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia	Black Inc.
		Sarah Krasnostein (joint winner)	The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster	Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[74]	Australian History	Meredith Lake	The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History	NewSouth Books
	Community and Regional History	Sarah Luke	Callan Park, Hospital for the Insane	Australian Scholarly Publishing
	General History	Christina Thompson	Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia	Harper
Queensland Literary Awards[63]	Non-Fiction	Mary Hoban	An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold	Scribe
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56]	Non-Fiction	Behrouz Boochani	No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison	Picador Australia