This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad, The Other Half of You
- Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear
- Larissa Behrendt, After Story
- Steven Carroll, O
- Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters
- Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light
- Nikki Gemmell, The Ripping Tree
- Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams
- John Kinsella, Pushing Back
- Emily Maguire, Love Objects
- Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
Collected essays
- Chelsea Watego, Another Day in the Colony
Children's and young adult fiction
- Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars
- Katrina Nannestad, Rabbit, Soldier, Angel Thief
Crime and thrillers
- Candice Fox, The Chase
- Helen FitzGerald, Ash Mountain
- Michael Robotham, When You Are Mine
Poetry
- Pam Brown, Stasis Shuffle
- Maxine Beneba Clarke, How Decent Folk Behave
- Andy Jackson, Human Looking
- Maria Takolander, Trigger Warning
Non-fiction
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, Coming of Age in the War on Terror
- Julia Banks, Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs
- Alison Croggon, Monsters: A reckoning
- Mehreen Faruqi, Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud
- Ross Garnaut, Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession
- Stan Grant, With the Falling of the Dusk
- Dale Kent, The Most I Could Be
- Scott Ludlam, Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next
- Mark McKenna, Return to Uluru
- Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement
- Jeff Sparrow, Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating
- Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas (illustrator), The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Melbourne Prize for Literature[1] | Christos Tsiolkas |
| Patrick White Award[2] | Adam Aitken |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[3] | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Hachette Australia |
| Stella Prize[4] | Evie Wyld | The Bass Rock | Penguin Random House |
Fiction
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[5] | Emma Batchelor | Now That I See You | Allen & Unwin | |
| Miles Franklin Award[6] | Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth | Text Publishing | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[7] | Fiction | Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8][9] | Kate Grenville | A Room Made of Leaves | Text Publishing | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[10] | Fiction | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Hachette Australia |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[11][12] | Literature | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | Scribe |
| Fiction | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | Scribe | |
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[13] | Older Readers | Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger than Love | Text |
| Younger Readers | Kate Gordon | Aster's Good, Right Things | Riveted Press | |
| Picture Book | Meg McKinlay, illus. Matt Ottley | How to Make a Bird | Walker Books | |
| Early Childhood | Libby Hathorn & Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, illus. Mel Pearce | No! Never! | Lothian Books | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Pamela Freeman, illus. Liz Anelli | Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu | Walker Books | |
| Nan Chauncy Award[14] | Jan Nicholls | |||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8][9] | Children's | Amelia Mellor | The Grandest Bookshop in the World | Affirm |
| Young People's | Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger than Love | Text | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[10] | Children's | Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Dub Leffler | Bindi | Magabala Books |
| Young Adult | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Text | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Young Adult Fiction | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Text |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[15] | Novel | Sally Hepworth | The Good Sister | Pan Macmillan |
| Debut novel | Leah Swann | Sheerwater | HarperCollins | |
| Ned Kelly Award[16] | Novel | Garry Disher | Consolation | Text Publishing |
| First novel | Loraine Peck | The Second Son | Penguin Books | |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Biography Award[17] | Biography | Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8][9] | Non-Fiction | Kate Fullagar | The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire | Yale University Press |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[18] | Australian History | Grace Karskens | People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia | Allen & Unwin |
| Community and Regional History | Matthew Colloff | Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling people and environment | Thames & Hudson | |
| General History | Luke Keogh | The Wardian Case: How a simple box moved plants and changed the world | The University of Chicago Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[10] | Non-Fiction | Luke Stegemann | Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory | NewSouth Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Non-Fiction | Paddy Manning | Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us | Simon & Schuster |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award[19] | Ella Jeffery | Dead Bolt | Puncher & Wattmann |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8][9] | Ellen van Neerven | Throat | University of Queensland Press |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[10] | Ouyang Yu | Terminally Poetic | Ginninderra Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[12] | David Stavanger | Case Notes | UWA Publishing |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8][9] | Script | Laurence Billiet | Freeman | General Strike and Matchbox Pictures |
| Play | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk | The Street Theatre | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Angus Cerini | Wonnangatta | Sydney Theatre Company |
Deaths
- 1 May – Kate Jennings, poet and writer (died in the United States) (b. 1948)[20]
- 25 April – Valerie Parv, romance novelist (b. 1951)[21]
- 16 May – Vera Deacon, historian (b. 1926)[22]
- 16 September – Tim Thorne, poet (b. 1944)[23]
- 22 November –
- Stuart Macintyre, historian (b. 1947)[24]
- Doug MacLeod, children's writer, poet, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1959)[25]
- Babette Smith, historian (b. 1942)[24]
- 26 November – Desmond O'Grady, journalist and author (died in Rome) (b. 1929)[26]
- 26 December – Paul B. Kidd, radio broadcaster and true crime writer (b. 1945)[27]
See also
References
- ↑ "Austlit — Melbourne Prize". Austlit. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ↑ "Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ↑ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ↑ "Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize". ArtsHub. 22 April 2021. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ↑ Steger, Jason (30 April 2021). "How truth and fiction won Emma Batchelor this year's Vogel Award". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ↑ "$60,000 Miles Franklin awarded to a novel 'soaked in sadness' that is ultimately about hope". ABC News. 15 July 2021. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ↑ "PMLA 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 December 2021. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2021. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "'Eight jobs at once and no sick days': $60,000 prizes a welcome relief for young writer". www.abc.net.au. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 "Winners announced for 2021 Queensland Literary Awards". Queensland Government: Ministerial Media Statements. 9 September 2021. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ↑ "Pandemic novel wins Australia's richest literary prize". Books+Publishing. 17 March 2021. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "McKay wins $100k Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 2 February 2021. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ↑ "CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 21 August 2021. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ↑ "Nicholls wins 2021 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 25 June 2021. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ↑ "Davitt Awards winners announced". Books+Publishing. 30 August 2021. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ↑ "Ned Kelly Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ↑ "National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Radio. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ↑ "NSW Premier's History Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ↑ "Jeffrey wins 2020 Anne Elder Award for 'Dead Bolt'". Books+Publishing. 15 April 2021. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ↑ Haigh, Gideon (2 May 2021). "Expat writer Kate Jennings had a voice both fierce and fun". The Australian. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ↑ "Valerie Parv". Austlit. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ↑ "Newcastle loses a legend: Vera Deacon passes away, aged 94". Newcastle Herald. 18 May 2021. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ↑ "Timothy Colin Thorne – Death Notice". The Advocate. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- 1 2 Celebrated historians Babette Smith, Stuart Macintyre have died (subscription required)
- ↑ "Vale Doug MacLeod". Books+Publishing. 1 December 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ Phillilps, John (28 November 2021). "Obituary: Desmond O'Grady, Australian foreign correspondent who reported on Italy for over half a century". www.italianinsider.it. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ↑ White, Daniella (27 December 2021). "Veteran Australian radio broadcaster Paul B. Kidd dies, aged 76". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
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