This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1989.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award [26] | Chris Wallace-Crabbe |
Patrick White Award [27] | Thea Astley |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year Award [28] | Marsden Hordern | Mariners are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia 1837-1843 | Melbourne University Press |
ALS Gold Medal [29] | Frank Moorhouse | Forty-Seventeen | Viking Books |
Colin Roderick Award [30] | Chris Symons | John Bishop : A Life for Music | |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize [31] | Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Gillian Mears | Ride a Cock Horse | Pascoe Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [32] | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award [37] | Mark Miller | Conversing with Stones | Five Islands Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [38] | Dorothy Hewett | A Tremendous World in Her Head | Dangaroo Press |
Mary Gilmore Award [39] | Alex Skovron | The Rearrangement | Melbourne University Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [35] | John Tranter | Under Berlin | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [36] | Gwen Harwood | Bone Scan | Angus and Robertson |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers [40] | Gillian Rubinstein | Beyond the Labyrinth | Hyland House |
Picture Book | Graeme Base [41] | The Eleventh Hour | Viking Kestrel | |
Allan Baillie & Jane Tanner [42] | Drac and the Gremlin | Viking Kestrel | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [35] | Young People's Literature | Mary Pershall | You Take the High Road | Penguin |
Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction [36] | Caroline MacDonald | The Lake at the End of the World | Hodder & Stoughton |
Award | Category | Author | Title |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [35] | FilmScript | Not awarded | |
Radio Script | Alana Valentine | The Story of Anger Lee Bredenza | |
Television Script | Bob Ellis and Stephen Ramsay | The True Believers | |
Play | Stephen Sewell | Hate | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [36] | Drama | Daniel Keene | Silent Partner |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [32] | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year Award [28] | Marsden C. Hordern | Mariners are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia 1837-1843 | Melbourne University Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [35] | Maslyn Williams | His Mother's Country | Melbourne University Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [36] | Oskar Spate | Paradise Found and Lost | ANU Press |
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1989 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1989 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.