2020 in Australian literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Patrick Allington, Rise & Shine
- Robbie Arnott, The Rain Heron
- James Bradley, Ghost Species
- Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
- Jon Doust, Return Ticket
- Chris Flynn, Mammoth
- Anna Goldsworthy, Melting Moments
- Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
- Tom Keneally, The Dickens Boy
- Sofie Laguna, Infinite Splendours
- Bem Le Hunte, Elephants with Headlights
- Carol Lefevre, Murmurations
- Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
- Laura Jean McKay, The Animals in That Country
- Mirandi Riwoe, Stone Sky Gold Mountain
- Ronnie Scott, The Adversary
- Craig Silvey, Honeybee
- Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words
- Daniel Davis Wood, At the Edge of the Solid World
- Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock
Children's and young adult fiction
- K.M. Allan, Blackbirch: The Beginning
- Sarah Allen, Busy Beaks
- Davina Bell, The End of the World Is Bigger than Love
- Danielle Binks, The Year the Maps Changed
- Belinda Crawford, Cold Between Stars
- Katya de Becerra, Oasis
- Alex Dyson, When It Drops
- Sarah Epstein, Deep Water
- Alison Evans, Euphoria Kids
- Zana Fraillon, The Lost Soul Atlas
- Jane Godwin, When Rain Turns to Snow
- Kate Gordon, Aster's Good, Right Things
- Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated
- Bernadette Green, Who's Your Real Mum?
- Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, No! Never!
- Eliza Henry-Jones, How to Grow a Family Tree
- Gina Inverarity, Snow
- Kay Kerr, Please Don't Hug Me
- Will Kostakis
- Rebel Gods
- The Greatest Hit
- Jeremy Lachlan, Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls
- Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep
- Anna McGregor, Anemone Is Not The Enemy
- Heidi McKinnon, There's No Such Thing
- Kate McMahon, Sea of Gratitude
- Cath Moore, Metal Fish, Falling Snow
- Anna Morgan, Before the Beginning
- Jaclyn Moriarty, The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
- Sally Murphy, Worse Things
- Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves
- Christie Nieman, Where We Begin
- Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
- Poppy Nwosu, Taking Down Evelyn Tait
- Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours
- Kirli Saunders, Bindi
- Helen Scheuerer, Dawn of Mist
- Astrid Scholte, The Vanishing Deep
- Briony Stewart, We Love You, Magoo
- Shaun Tan, Dog
- Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
- Lisa Walker, The Girl with the Gold Bikini
- Anna Whateley, Peta Lyre's Rating Normal
- Sue Whiting, The Book of Chance
- Bonnie Wynne, The Ninth Sorceress
Crime
- Anne Buist, The Long Shadow
- Garry Disher, Consolation
- Candice Fox, Gathering Dark
- Dervla McTiernan, The Good Turn
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Poetry
- Laurie Duggan, Homer Street
- Michael Farrell, Family Trees
- Kate Llewellyn, Harbour
- Felicity Plunkett, A Kinder Sea
- Ellen van Neerven
- Homeland Calling: Words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices (as editor)
- Throat
Non-fiction
- Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark
- Richard Fidler, The Golden Maze: A History of Prague
- Michael Gawenda, The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Life
- Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth
- John Kinsella, Displaced: A Rural Life
- Michael Gawenda, The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian
- Sophie McNeill, We Can't Say We Didn't Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity
- Brenda Niall, Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
- Caroline Overington, Missing William Tyrrell
- Christopher Pyne, The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble
- Cassandra Pybus, Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
- Miranda Tapsell, Top End Girl
- Robert Tickner, Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion
- Malcolm Turnbull, A Bigger Picture
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[1] | Gregory Day |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles Franklin Literary Award[2] | Fiction | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Penguin Random House |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[3] | Fiction | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Penguin Random House |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Penguin Random House | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[5] | Fiction | Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | University of Queensland Press |
| Stella Prize[6] | Jess Hill | See What You Made Me Do | Black Inc | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8] | Literature | S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack | Counting and Cracking | Belvoir and Co-Curious |
| Fiction | Christos Tsiolkas | Damascus | Allen & Unwin | |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[9] | Older Readers | Vikki Wakefield | This Is How We Change the Ending | Text Publishing |
| Younger Readers | Pip Harry | The Little Wave | University of Queensland Press | |
| Picture Book | Chris McKimmie | I Need a Parrot | Ford Street | |
| Early Childhood | Frances Watts | My Friend Fred | Allen & Unwin | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Bruce Pascoe | Young Dark Emu: A truer history | Magabala Books | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Children's | Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley | Ella and the Ocean | Allen & Unwin |
| Young People's | Karen Foxlee | Lenny's Book of Everything | Allen & Unwin | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8] | Young Adult Fiction | Helena Fox | How It Feels to Float | Pan Macmillan Australia |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[10] | Novel | Meg Mundell | The Trespassers | UQP |
| Ned Kelly Award[11] | Novel | Christian White | The Wife and the Widow | Affirm Press |
| First novel | Natalie Conyer | Present Tense | Clan Destine Press | |
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ditmar Award[12] | Novel | Gillian Polack | The Year of the Fruit Cake | IFWG Publishing |
| Best Short Fiction | Rivqa Rafael | "Whom My Soul Loves" | ||
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Biography Award[13] | Biography | Patrick Mullins | Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon | Scribe Publications |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Non-Fiction | Patrick Mullins | Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon | Scribe Publications |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | James Dunk | Bedlam at Botany Bay | NewSouth Publishing[14] |
| Community and Regional History | Callum Clayton-Dixon | Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of Colonial Apocalypse | Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation[15] | |
| General History | Kate Fullagar | The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire | Yale University Press[16] | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[5] | Non-Fiction | Joe Gorman | Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8] | Non-Fiction | Christina Thompson | Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia | HarperCollins |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award (joint winners)[17] | Cham Zhi Yi | blur by the | Subbed In |
| Gareth Sion Jenkins | Recipes for the Disaster | Five Islands Press | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Peter Boyle | Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness | Vagabond Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7][8] | Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | Cordite |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] | Script | Kylie Boltin | Missing |
| Jacquelin Perske | The Cry, Episode 2 | ||
| Play | S. Shakthidharan | Counting and Cracking |
Deaths
- 1 January – Alexander Frater, travel writer and journalist (born 1937 in Vanuatu)[18]
- 6 January – Timoshenko Aslanides, poet (born 1943)[19]
- 20 January – Steph Bowe, young adult novelist and blogger (born 1994)[20]
- 1 April – Bruce Dawe, poet (born 1930)[21]
- 14 May – Judith Clarke, writer for children and teenagers (born 1943)[22]
- 5 June – Andrew Riemer, literary critic and author (born 1936)[23]
- 10 June – Jesse Blackadder, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1964)[24]
- 7 July – Elizabeth Harrower, novelist (born 1928)[25]
- 10 September – Barbara Ker Wilson, English-born Australian editor and novelist (born 1929)[26]
- 29 September – Ania Walwicz, poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist (born 1951 in Poland)[27]
- 6 November – Gerald Stone, journalist (born 1933 in USA)[28]
- 14 November – Greg Growden, sports journalist, author and biographer (born 1959/60)[29]
- 9 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator (born 1941)[30]
- 12 December – Wendy Brennan, romantic fiction writer (co-wrote with husband Frank Brennan as Emma Darcy) (born 1940)[31]
See also
References
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- "Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award". Books+Publishing. 7 May 2020. Archived from the original on 7 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- "Alexander Frater, award-winning author whose book Chasing the Monsoon became a classic work of Anglo-Indian literature". The Telegraph. 27 March 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
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- Moran, Robert. "Award-winning author Jesse Blackadder dies, aged 56". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- "Obituary - Elizabeth Harrower - Obituaries Australia". oa.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- "Barbara Ker Wilson". My Tributes. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- "Ania Walwicz Death Notice - Melbourne, Victoria | The Age". tributes.theage.com.au. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- Idato, Michael (6 November 2020). "60 minutes trailblazer and legendary TV producer Gerald Stone dead". The Age. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- FitzSimons, Peter (14 November 2020). "Vale Greg Growden, you will be long remembered". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
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- Ripley, Amy (27 January 2021). "Mills & Boon author sold 71 million copies worldwide". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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