2021 in Australian literature

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
Patrick White Award[1]	Adam Aitken

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Miles Franklin Award[2]		Amanda Lohrey	The Labyrinth	Text Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[3]	Fiction	Amanda Lohrey	The Labyrinth	Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5]		Kate Grenville	A Room Made of Leaves	Text Publishing
Queensland Literary Awards[6]	Fiction	Nardi Simpson	Song of the Crocodile	Hachette Australia
Stella Prize[7]		Evie Wyld	The Bass Rock	Penguin Random House
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[8][9]	Literature	Laura Jean McKay	The Animals in That Country	Scribe
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[8][9]	Fiction	Laura Jean McKay	The Animals in That Country	Scribe

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[10]	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[11]	Jan Nicholls
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5]	Children's	Amelia Mellor	The Grandest Bookshop in the World	Affirm
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5]	Young People's	Davina Bell	The End of the World is Bigger than Love	Text
Queensland Literary Awards[6]	Children's	Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Dub Leffler	Bindi	Magabala Books
Queensland Literary Awards[6]	Young Adult	Cath Moore	Metal Fish, Falling Snow	Text
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	Young Adult Fiction	Cath Moore	Metal Fish, Falling Snow	Text

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[12]	Novel	Sally Hepworth	The Good Sister	Pan Macmillan
Ned Kelly Award[13]	Novel	Garry Disher	Consolation	Text Publishing
Ned Kelly Award[13]	First novel	Loraine Peck	The Second Son	Penguin Books

Non-Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
National Biography Award[14]	Biography	Cassandra Pybus	Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5]	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[15]	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[6]	Non-Fiction	Luke Stegemann	Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory	NewSouth Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	Non-Fiction	Paddy Manning	Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us	Simon & Schuster

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Anne Elder Award[16]	Ella Jeffery	Dead Bolt	Puncher & Wattmann
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5]	Ellen van Neerven	Throat	University of Queensland Press
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[6]	Ouyang Yu	Terminally Poetic	Ginninderra Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	David Stavanger	Case Notes	UWA Publishing

Drama

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5]	Script	Laurence Billiet	Freeman	General Strike and Matchbox Pictures
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4][5]	Play	Dylan Van Den Berg	Milk	The Street Theatre
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]		Angus Cerini	Wonnangatta	Sydney Theatre Company

Deaths

1 May – Kate Jennings, poet and writer (died in the United States) (b. 1948)[17]
25 April – Valerie Parv, romance novelist (b. 1951)[18]
16 May – Vera Deacon, historian (b. 1926)[19]
16 September – Tim Thorne, poet (b. 1944)[20]
22 November –
- Stuart Macintyre, historian (b. 1947)[21]
- Doug MacLeod, children's writer, poet, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1959)[22]
- Babette Smith, historian (b. 1942)[21]
26 November – Desmond O'Grady, journalist and author (died in Rome) (b. 1929)[23]
26 December – Paul B. Kidd, radio broadcaster and true crime writer (b. 1945)[24]

References

"Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
"$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.
"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.
"'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.
"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.
"Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize". ArtsHub. 22 April 2021. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
"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.
"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.
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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[1] "Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.

[2] "$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.

[3] "PMLA 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 December 2021. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.

[:1-4] "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.

[:2-5] "'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.

[:3-6] "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.

[:02-7] "Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize". ArtsHub. 22 April 2021. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

[8] "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.

[:0-9] "McKay wins $100k Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 2 February 2021. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

[10] "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.

[11] "Nicholls wins 2021 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 25 June 2021. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

[12] "Davitt Awards winners announced". Books+Publishing. 30 August 2021. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.

[13] "Ned Kelly Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

[14] "National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Radio. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

[15] "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.

[16] "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-17] 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.

[AustlitD1-18] "Valerie Parv". Austlit. Retrieved 27 June 2023.

[19] "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.

[20] "Timothy Colin Thorne – Death Notice". The Advocate. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.

[:4-21] Celebrated historians Babette Smith, Stuart Macintyre have died (subscription required)

[22] "Vale Doug MacLeod". Books+Publishing. 1 December 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

[23] 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.

[smh-24] White, Daniella (27 December 2021). "Veteran Australian radio broadcaster Paul B. Kidd dies, aged 76". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2021.

Years in Australian literature (1855–present)
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2021 in Australian literature

Major publications

Literary fiction

Collected essays

Children's and young adult fiction

Crime and thrillers

Poetry

Non-fiction

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

National

National

National

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

See also

References