This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
- Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
- Jane Caro, The Mother
- Steven Carroll, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight
- Shankari Chandran, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)[1]
- Robert Drewe, Nimblefoot
- Katerina Gibson, Women I Know (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction)[2]
- Robert Lukins, Loveland
- Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down
- Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris
- Paddy O'Reilly, Other Houses
- Edwina Preston, Bad Art Mother
- Craig Sherborne, The Grass Hotel
- Steve Toltz, Here Goes Nothing
Short story collections
- Mirandi Riwoe, The Burnished Sun
Non-Fiction
- Alison Bashford, An Intimate History of Evolution: The Huxleys in Nature and Culture
- Debra Dank, We Come With This Place
- Jo Dyer, Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics
- Madonna King, L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood
- Louisa Lim, Indelible City: Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
- Julianne Schulz, The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation
Children's and young adult fiction
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke, 11 Words for Love
- Lian Tanner, Rita’s Revenge
- Gabrielle Wang, Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon
Crime
- Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule
Poetry
- Adam Aitken, Revenants
- Boey Kim Cheng, The Singer and Other Poems
- Marion May Campbell, Languish
- Lionel Fogarty, Harvest Lingo
- Lisa Gorton, Miribilia
- Sarah Holland-Batt, The Jaguar
- John Kinsella, The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)
- Les Murray, Continuous Creation
- Rae White, Exactly As I Am
Memoir
- Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation
- Anita Heiss, Am I Black Enough For You? Ten years on
- Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story
- Anita Jacoby, Secrets Beyond the Screen
- Wendy McCarthy, Don't Be Too Polite, Girls
- Brenda Niall, My Accidental Career
- Heather Rose, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[3] | Antigone Kefala |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[4] | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Giramondo Publishing |
| Stella Prize[5] | Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | University of Queensland Press |
Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[6] | Nell Pierce | A Place Near Eden | Allen & Unwin | |
| Miles Franklin Award[7] | Jennifer Down | Bodies of Light | Text | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[8] | Fiction | Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven | Text |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | UQP | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[10] | Fiction | Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Hachette Australia |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[11] | Literature | Veronica Gorrie | Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience | Scribe |
| Fiction | Melisa Manning | Smokehouse | UQP |
Children and Young Adult
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[12] | Older Readers | Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | Allen & Unwin |
| Younger Readers | Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | Puffin | |
| Picture Book | Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft | Iceberg | Allen & Unwin | |
| Early Childhood | Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville | Jetty Jumping | Hardie Grant | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press | |
| Lifetime Achievement | Margaret Wild[13] | |||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Children's | Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | UQP |
| Young People's | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[10] | Children's | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Magabala Books |
| Young Adult | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[11] | Young Adult Fiction | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[14] | Novel | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
| Debut | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
| Ned Kelly Award[15] | Novel | Candice Fox | The Chase | Bantam Books |
| First novel | Josh Kemp | Banjawarn | UWA Publishing | |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Biography Award[16][17] | Biography | Bernadette Brennan | Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Non-Fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[18] | Australian History | Alexis Bergantz | French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions | NewSouth Publishing |
| Community and Regional History | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. | |
| General History | Mina Roces | The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change | Cornell University Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[10] | Non-Fiction | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Ultimo Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[11] | Non-Fiction | Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | Pan |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award[19] | Audrey Molloy | The Important Things | Gallery Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[20] | Jelena Dinic | In the Room with the She Wolf | Wakefield Press |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[8] | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | UQP |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | Vagabond Press |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[21] | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Hunter |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[11] | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | UQP |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[9] | Script | Shaun Grant | NITRAM | |
| Play | Kirsty Marillier | Orange Thrower | Currency Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[11] | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk |
Deaths
- 22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933)[22]
- 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935)[23]
- 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961)[24]
- 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50)[25]
- 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934)[26]
- 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938)[27]
- 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939)[28]
- 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927)[29]
- 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942)[30]
- 3 August
- Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925)[31]
- Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931)[32]
- 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937)[33]
- 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940)[34]
- 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927)[35]
- 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964)[36]
- 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938)[37]
- 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941)[38]
- 2 December
- Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)[39]
- Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935)[40]
- 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)[41]
See also
References
- ↑ Burke, Kelly (25 July 2023). "Shankari Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin award for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ↑ Jefferson, Dee (22 May 2023). "One book just won a record four out of 14 prizes at $350,000 NSW literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ↑ "Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 24 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ↑ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ↑ Wright, Fiona (28 April 2022). "Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: 'I was one paycheck away from complete poverty'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ↑ "'A Place Near Eden' wins 2022 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ↑ Story, Hannah (20 July 2022). "Winner of $60,000 literary award draws attention to systemic abuses in Australian out-of-home care". ABC News. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- 1 2 Burke, Kelly (13 December 2022). "Prime Minister's Literary awards 2022: Nicolas Rothwell and Mark Willacy win major prizes". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Cain, Sian (16 May 2022). "'Unflinching': Villawood graphic novel wins book of the year at NSW premier's literary awards". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- 1 2 3 Burke, Kelly (13 October 2022). "Queensland Literary awards: winners list reflects 'a moment of change for the nation'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Gorrie wins 2022 Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ↑ "CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards". Books+Publishing. 23 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
- ↑ "2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Margaret Wild". The Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ↑ "Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ↑ "Ned Kelly Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ↑ "National Biography Award winner announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Sydney. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ↑ "National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ↑ "NSW Premier's History Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
- ↑ "Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ↑ ""Mary Gilmore Award"". ASAL. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ↑ "Queensland Literary Awards winners for 2022". Queensland Government. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ↑ "Craig McGregor Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales | Sydney Morning Herald". tributes.smh.com.au. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "John Bryson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ↑ On, Thuy (2 March 2022). "Vale Jordie Albiston". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ↑ "Acclaimed Writer Annah Faulkner Leaves Literary Suicide Note". Exit International. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ↑ Knox, David (22 March 2022). "Vale: Alan Hopgood". TV Tonight. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ↑ Barlass, Tim (26 June 2022). "Author Frank Moorhouse dies aged 83". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ↑ Engle, Carole R.; Leung, PingSun (3 July 2022). "A tribute to Professor Clem Tisdell (1939 to 2022), founding coeditor of Aquaculture Economics & Management and member of the organizing team of the International Association of Aquaculture Economics & Management". Aquaculture Economics & Management. 26 (3): 251–252. doi:10.1080/13657305.2022.2107117. ISSN 1365-7305. S2CID 251367109.
- ↑ "David Neil IRELAND – Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ↑ "Edwin WILSON: Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ↑ "Bruce Alexander Grant Death Notice – Melbourne, Victoria | The Age". tributes.theage.com.au. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ↑ "Evan Lloyd Jones Death Notice". The Age. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Austlit — Virginia Spate". Austlit. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ↑ "Dr Craig POWELL Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 September 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ↑ Yeldham, Peter (24 October 2022). "The scriptwriter whose life was like a movie". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ↑ "Angus Alexander Geoffrey TRUMBLE Death Notice". Canberra Times. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ↑ Chandler, Mark (18 October 2022). "Carmen Callil, Virago founder and author, dies aged 84". The Bookseller. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ↑ "Margaret Dawn Hamilton Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ↑ TL Lakon Belun Jill Jolliffe Ne’ebé Grava Memória Luta bá Ukun Rasik-Aan
- ↑ "Vale Antigone Kefala". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ↑ "Vale Robert Adamson". Books+Publishing. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
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