1985 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1985.

Contents

Events

Major publications

Novels

Short story collections

Crime and mystery

Science fiction and fantasy

Children's and young adult fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-fiction

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

AwardAuthor
Christopher Brennan Award [15] Les Murray
Patrick White Award [16] Judah Waten (posthumous)

Literary awards

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
The Age Book of the Year Award [17] Peter Carey Illywhacker University of Queensland Press
ALS Gold Medal [18] David Ireland Archimedes and the Seagle Viking Press
Colin Roderick Award [19] John Gunn The Defeat of Distance : Qantas 1919-1939University of Queensland Press

Fiction awards

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
The Age Book of the Year Award [17] Peter Carey Illywhacker University of Queensland Press
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [20] No award
Miles Franklin Award [21] Christopher Koch The Doubleman Chatto & Windus
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [22] Elizabeth Jolley Milk and Honey Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [23] David Malouf Antipodes Chatto and Windus

Poetry

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
Anne Elder Award [24] Stephen J. WilliamsA Crowd of VoicesPariah Press Co-op
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [25] Robert Gray Selected Poems 1963–1983 Angus and Robertson
Chris Wallace-Crabbe The Amorous Cannibal Oxford University Press
Mary Gilmore Award [26] Doris Brett The Truth About UnicornsJacaranda Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [22] Kevin Hart Your ShadowAngus & Robertson
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [23] Rosemary Dobson The Three Fates and Other Poems Hale and Iremonger
Kevin Hart Your ShadowAngus & Robertson

Children and Young Adult

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
Children's Book of the Year Award Older Readers [27] James Aldridge The True Story of Lilli Stubeck Hyland House
Picture Book [28] Not awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [22] Young People's Literature Nadia Wheatley The House that Was Eureka Penguin

Drama

AwardCategoryAuthorTitle
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [22] Script Bob Ellis and Paul Cox My First Wife
Margaret Kelly, Chris Noonan, Phillip Noyce
and Russell Braddon 		The Cowra Breakout
Play Stephen Sewell The Blind Giant is Dancing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [23] DramaDavid AllenCheapside

Non-fiction

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
The Age Book of the Year Award [17] Chester EagleMapping the Paddocks McPhee Gribble
Hugh Lunn Vietnam: A Reporter's War University of Queensland Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [22] Elsie WebsterThe Moon Man Melbourne University Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [23] Bernard Smith The Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard Allen Lane

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1985 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

Unknown date

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1985 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

See also

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