2022 in Australian literature

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 Kelly McGregor, Iris
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
Julianne Schulz, The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation

Children's and young adult fiction

Lian Tanner, Rita’s Revenge

Crime

Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule

Poetry

Adam Aitken, Revenants
Boey Kim Cheng, The Singer and Other Poems
Marion May Campbell, Languish
Lisa Gorton, Miribilia
Sarah Holland-Batt, The Jaguar
John Kinsella, The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)
Les Murray, Continuous Creation

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

Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Miles Franklin Award[4]		Jennifer Down	Bodies of Light	Text
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[5]	Fiction	Nicolas Rothwell	Red Heaven	Text
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6]		Tony Birch	Dark as Last Night	UQP
Queensland Literary Awards[7]	Fiction	Michael Mohammed Ahmad	The Other Half of You	Hachette Australia
Stella Prize[8]	Literature	Evelyn Araluen	Dropbear	UQP
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	Literature	Veronica Gorrie	Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience	Scribe
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	Fiction	Melisa Manning	Smokehouse	UQP

Children and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[10]	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[11]
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6]	Children's	Peter Carnavas	My Brother Ben	UQP
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6]	Young People's	Leanne Hall	The Gaps	Text
Queensland Literary Awards[7]	Children's	Kunyi June Anne McInerney	Kunyi	Magabala Books
Queensland Literary Awards[7]	Young Adult	Felicity Castagna	Girls in Boys' Cars	Pan
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	Young Adult Fiction	Felicity Castagna	Girls in Boys' Cars	Pan

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award[12]	Novel	Charlotte McConaghy	Once There Were Wolves	Hamish Hamilton
Ned Kelly Award[13]	Novel	Candice Fox	The Chase	Bantam Books
Ned Kelly Award[13]	First novel	Josh Kemp	Banjawarn	UWA Publishing

Non-Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
National Biography Award[14][15]	Biography	Bernadette Brennan	Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6]	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[16]	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[7]	Non-Fiction	Claire G. Coleman	Lies, Damned Lies	Ultimo Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	Non-Fiction	Amani Haydar	The Mother Wound	Pan

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Anne Elder Award[17]	Audrey Molloy	The Important Things	Gallery Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6]	Dan Disney	accelerations & inertias	Vagabond Press
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[18]	Pam Brown	Stasis Shuffle	Hunter
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]	Maria Takolander	Trigger Warning	UQP

Drama

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6]	Script	Shaun Grant	NITRAM
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[6]	Play	Kirsty Marillier	Orange Thrower	Currency Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[9]		Dylan Van Den Berg	Milk

Deaths

22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933)[19]
5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935)[20]
1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961)[21]
8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50)[22]
19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934)[23]
26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938)[24]
14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939)[25]
26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927)[26]
27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942)[27]
3 August
- Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925)[28]
- Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931)[29]
12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937)[30]
29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940)[31]
20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927)[32]
8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964)[33]
17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938)[34]
24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941)[35]
2 December
- Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)[36]
- Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935)[37]
16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)[38]

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.
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.
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.
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.
Burke, Kelly (13 October 2022). "Queensland Literary awards: winners list reflects 'a moment of change for the nation'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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.
"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.
"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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[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[3] "Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 24 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

[:0-6] 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.

[:1-7] Burke, Kelly (13 October 2022). "Queensland Literary awards: winners list reflects 'a moment of change for the nation'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

[8] 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.

[:32-9] "Gorrie wins 2022 Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.

[10] "CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards". Books+Publishing. 23 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.

[11] "2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Margaret Wild". The Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 23 August 2022.

[12] "Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.

[13] "Ned Kelly Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.

[14] "National Biography Award winner announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Sydney. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

[15] "National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 23 August 2022.

[16] "NSW Premier's History Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[17] "Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.

[18] "Queensland Literary Awards winners for 2022". Queensland Government. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

[19] "Craig McGregor Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales | Sydney Morning Herald". tributes.smh.com.au. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.

[20] "John Bryson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 17 May 2022.

[21] On, Thuy (2 March 2022). "Vale Jordie Albiston". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 2 March 2022.

[22] "Acclaimed Writer Annah Faulkner Leaves Literary Suicide Note". Exit International. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.

[23] Knox, David (22 March 2022). "Vale: Alan Hopgood". TV Tonight. Retrieved 17 May 2022.

[:02-24] Barlass, Tim (26 June 2022). "Author Frank Moorhouse dies aged 83". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 June 2022.

[25] 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.

[26] "David Neil IRELAND – Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.

[27] "Edwin WILSON: Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.

[28] "Bruce Alexander Grant Death Notice – Melbourne, Victoria | The Age". tributes.theage.com.au. Retrieved 5 August 2022.

[29] "Evan Lloyd Jones Death Notice". The Age. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.

[30] "Austlit — Virginia Spate". Austlit. Retrieved 21 August 2023.

[31] "Dr Craig POWELL Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 September 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.

[32] Yeldham, Peter (24 October 2022). "The scriptwriter whose life was like a movie". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 July 2023.

[33] "Angus Alexander Geoffrey TRUMBLE Death Notice". Canberra Times. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.

[Chandler-34] Chandler, Mark (18 October 2022). "Carmen Callil, Virago founder and author, dies aged 84". The Bookseller. Retrieved 22 October 2022.

[35] "Margaret Dawn Hamilton Death Notice". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.

[36] TL Lakon Belun Jill Jolliffe Ne’ebé Grava Memória Luta bá Ukun Rasik-Aan

[37] "Vale Antigone Kefala". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2023.

[38] "Vale Robert Adamson". Books+Publishing. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.

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2022 in Australian literature

Major publications

Literary fiction

Short story collections

Non-Fiction

Children's and young adult fiction

Crime

Poetry

Memoir

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

Children and Young Adult

National

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

See also

References