2024 in Australian literature
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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024.
- Both the chief executive and deputy chairman quit over promotional material released for the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival[1]
- Major Australian online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration as it explores options for "sale and/or recapitalisation."[2]
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Jumaana Abdu – Translations
- Robbie Arnott – Dusk
- Amy Brown – My Brilliant Sister[3]
- Brian Castro – Chinese Postman[4]
- Shankari Chandran – Safe Haven[5]
- Melanie Cheng – The Burrow
- Charmian Clift – The End of the Morning[6]
- Michelle de Kretser – Theory & Practice
- Winnie Dunn – Dirt Poor Islanders[7]
- David Dyer – This Kingdom of Dust[8]
- Nikki Gemmell – Wing[9]
- Rodney Hall – Vortex
- Dylin Hardcastle – A Language of Limbs[10]
- Anita Heiss – Dirrayawadha[11]
- Kirsty Iltners – Depth of Field[12]
- Julie Janson – Compassion[13]
- Gail Jones – One Another[14]
- Lauren Keegan – All the Bees in the Hollows[15]
- Meg Keneally – Free[16]
- Kate Kruimink – Heartsease[17]
- Siang Lu – Ghost Cities
- Emily Maguire – Rapture[18]
- Alex Miller – The Deal[19]
- Stephen Orr – Shining Like the Sun[20]
- Jock Serong – Cherrywood[21]
- Inga Simpson – The Thinning[22]
- Nardi Simpson – The Belburd[23]
- Tim Winton – Juice
Short story collections
- Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Astronauts[24]
- Fiona McFarlane – Highway 13
- Mykaela Saunders – Always Will Be[25]
Crime and mystery
- Garry Disher – Sanctuary[26]
- Candice Fox – Devil's Kitchen[27]
- Sulari Gentill – The Mystery Writer[28]
- Chris Hammer – The Valley[29]
- Margaret Hickey – The Creeper
- Lisa Kenway – All You Took From Me[30]
- Dervla McTiernan – What Happened to Nina?
- Louise Milligan – Pheasants Nest[31]
- Vikki Wakefield – To the River
Science fiction and Fantasy
- Greg Egan
- "Death and the Gorgon"[32]
- Morphotrophic
- Kate Forsyth – Psyckhe[33]
- Ben Peek – "Shadow Films"[34]
- Angela Slatter – The Briar Book of the Dead[35]
- Kaaron Warren – The Underhistory[36]
Children's and young adult
- Kate Emery – My Family and Other Suspects[37]
- Ambelin Kwaymullina – Liar's Test[38]
- Emma Lord – Anomaly[39]
- Katrina Nannestad – All the Beautiful Things[40]
- Krystal Sutherland – The Invocations[41]
- Lili Wilkinson – Deep is the Fen[42]
Poetry
- Chris Andrews – The Oblong Plot[43]
- Manisha Anjali – Naag Mountain[44]
- Judith Beveridge – Tintinnabulum[45]
- David Brooks – The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems[46]
- Hasib Hourani – rock flight[47]
- Nam Le – 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem[48]
- Jeanine Leane – gawimarra gathering[49]
- Kate Middleton – Television[50]
- Izzy Roberts-Orr – Raw Salt[51]
Plays
- Patricia Cornelius – Bad Boy[52]
- Glenn Shea – Three Magpies Perched in a Tree[53]
- Melanie Tait – The Queen's Nanny[54]
- David Williamson – The Great Divide[55]
Non-Fiction
- James Bradley – Deep Water[56]
- Criss Canning – The Paintings of Criss Canning[57]
- Santilla Chingaipe – Black Convicts
- Helen Ennis – Max Dupain: A Portrait[58]
- Helen Garner – The Season
- Royce Kurmelovs – Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil[59]
- Amy McQuire – Black Witness
- Cameron K. Murray – The Great Housing Hijack
- Lucia Osborne-Crowley – The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell[60]
- Cher Tan – Peripathetic : Notes on (Un)belonging[61]
Memoir
- Abbas El-Zein – Bullet, Paper, Rock[62]
- Susan Hampton – Anything Can Happen[63]
- Samah Sabawi – Cactus Pear for My Beloved
- Markus Zusak – Three Wild Dogs and the Truth[64]
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Melbourne Prize for Literature[65] | Alexis Wright |
| Mona Brand Award[66] | Belinda Chayko |
| Patrick White Award[67] | Pi O |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[68] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
| Colin Roderick Award[69] | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | University of Queensland Press |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[70] | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Black Inc |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[71] | Ali Cobby Eckermann | She Is the Earth | Magabala Books |
| Stella Prize[72] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
Fiction
Children and Young Adult
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARA Historical Novel Prize[76] | Children and Young Adult | Beverley McWilliams | Spies in the Sky | Pantera Press |
| Children's Book of the Year Award[84] | Older Readers | Karen Comer | Grace Notes | Lothian |
| Younger Readers | Tristan Bancks | Scar Town | Puffin | |
| Picture Book | Kelly Canby | Timeless | Fremantle Press | |
| Early Childhood | Briony Stewart | Gymnastica Fantastica! | Lothian | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway, illus by Louise Hogan | Country Town | Fremantle Press | |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[70] | Children's | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet | Allen & Unwin |
| Young Adult | Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes | Welcome to Sex | Hardie Grant | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[80] | Children's | Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti | Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country | Hardie Grant |
| Young Adult | Will Kostakis | We Could Be Something | Allen & Unwin | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[85] | Children's | Levi Pinfold | Paradise Sands: A story of enchantment | Walker Books |
| Young People's | Helena Fox | The Quiet and the Loud | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[82] | Children's | Karen Comer | Sunshine on Vinegar Street | Allen & Unwin |
| Young Adult | sydney knoo | The Spider and Her Demons | Penguin | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Young Adult Fiction | Lili Wilkinson | A Hunger of Thorns | Allen & Unwin |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[86] | Children's | Dianne Wolfer | Scout and the Rescue Dogs | Walker Books |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[87] | Novel | Monica Vuu | When One of Us Hurts | Pan Macmillan |
| Young adult novel | Amy Doak | Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer | Penguin Books | |
| Children's novel | Lucinda Gifford | The Wolves of Greycoat Hall | Walker Books | |
| Non-fiction | Rebecca Hazel | The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife | Vintage Books | |
| Debut | Christine Keighery | The Half Brother | Ultimo | |
| Readers' choice | Alison Goodman | The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies | HarperCollins | |
| Ned Kelly Award[88] | Novel | Sally Hepworth | Darling Girls | Pan Macmillan |
| First novel | Matt Francis | Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point | Big Sky Publishing | |
| True crime | Nick McKenzie | Crossing the Line | Hachette Australia | |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year[75] | Non-Fiction | Ross McMullin | Life So Full of Promise | Scribe |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[70] | Non-Fiction | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Black Inc |
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Wendy Cooper | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper | National Library of Australia | |
| National Biography Award[89] | Biography | Lamisse Hamouda | The Shape of Dust: a father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him | Pantera Press |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[80] | Non-Fiction | Daniel Browning | Close to the Subject: Selected Works | Magabala Books |
| Australian History | Ryan Cropp | Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country | La Trobe University Press | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[85] | Non-Fiction | Christine Kenneally | Ghosts of the Orphanage | Hachette Australia |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[90] | Australian History | Alecia Simmonds | Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law | La Trobe University Press, with Black Inc[91] |
| Community and Regional History | Shauna Bostock | Reaching Through Time: Finding my family's stories | Allen & Unwin | |
| General History | Katharine E. McGregor | Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia | University of Wisconsin Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[82] | Non-Fiction | Abbas El-Zein | Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars | Upswell |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Non-Fiction | Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | University of Queensland Press |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[74] | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | University of Queensland Press |
| Anne Elder Award[92] | Sara M. Saleh | The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat | University of Queensland Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[93] | Dan Hogan | Secret Third Thing | Cordite Books |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[80] | Amy Crutchfield | The Cyprian | Giramondo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[85] | Tais Rose Wae | Riverbed Sky Songs | Vagabond Press |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[82] | L. K. Holt | Three Books | Vagabond Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[73] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[85] | Script | Anna Barnes | Safe Home, Episode 1 | Kindling Pictures |
| Play | Nicholas Brown | Sex Magick | Griffin Theatre Company & Currency Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[73] | S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack | The Jungle and the Sea | Belvoir St Theatre & Currency Press | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[94] | Award | Not awarded | ||
| Fellowship | Not awarded |
