This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1988.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award [22] | Roland Robinson |
Patrick White Award [23] | Roland Robinson |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Booker Prize [27] | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | University of Queensland Press | |
Commonwealth Writers' Prize [28] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | George Turner | The Sea and Summer | Faber & Faber |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [29] | Rod Jones | Julia Paradise | McPhee Gribble |
The Age Book of the Year Award [24] | Frank Moorhouse | Forty-Seventeen | Viking |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [30] | Tom Flood | Oceana Fine | Allen and Unwin |
Miles Franklin Award [31] | Not awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [32] | John Sligo | Final Things | Penguin Books Australia |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [33] | Murray Bail | Holden's Performance | Viking |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [29] | Les Murray | The Daylight Moon | Angus & Robertson |
Anne Elder Award [34] | Alex Skovron | The Rearrangement | Melbourne University Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [35] | John Tranter | Under Berlin | University of Queensland Press |
Mary Gilmore Award [36] | Judith Beveridge | The Domesticity of Giraffes | Black Lightning Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [32] | Judith Beveridge | The Domesticity of Giraffes | Black Lightning Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [33] | Judith Beveridge | The Domesticity of Giraffes | Black Lightning Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers [37] | John Marsden | So Much to Tell You | Walter McVitty Books |
Picture Book [38] | Bob Graham | Crusher is Coming! | Lothian Books | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [32] | Young People's Literature | Gillian Rubinstein | Answers to Brut | Omnibus Books |
Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction [33] | John Marsden | So Much to Tell You | Walter McVitty Books |
Award | Category | Author | Title |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [32] | Film Script | Laura Jones | High Tide |
Radio Script | Keith Gallasch and Virginia Baxter | Australia-Japan: A Love Story | |
Television Script | Anthony Wheeler | Olive | |
Play | Alma De Groen | The Rivers of China | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [33] | Drama | Alma De Groen | The Rivers of China |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [29] | Trevor Wilson | The Myriad Faces of War | Polity/Blackwells |
The Age Book of the Year Award [24] | Robin Gerster | Big-Noting : The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing | Melbourne University Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [32] | Brian Matthews | Louisa | McPhee Gribble |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [33] | Brian Matthews | Louisa | McPhee Gribble |
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1988 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.