This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1992.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award [27] | R. A. Simpson Oodgeroo Noonuccal |
Patrick White Award [28] | Peter Cowan |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year Award [29] | Marion Halligan | Lovers' Knots | Heinemann |
ALS Gold Medal [30] | Rodney Hall | The Second Bridegroom | McPhee Gribble |
Colin Roderick Award [31] | Ruth Park | A Fence Around the Cuckoo | Viking |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [32] | Vincent Buckley | Last Poems | McPhee Gribble |
Anne Elder Award [38] | Nicolette Stasko | Abundance | Angus & Robertson |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [39] | Kevin Hart | Dog Fox Field: Poems | Golvan Arts |
Gary Catalano | The Empire of Grass : Twenty-Eight Poems : 1983-1989 | University of Queensland Press | |
Mary Gilmore Award [40] | Alison Croggon | This is the Stone | Penguin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [35] | Elizabeth Riddell | Selected Poems | Angus & Robertson |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [36] | Robert Harris | Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems | Paper Bark Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award [41] | Older Readers | Eleanor Nilsson | The House Guest | Viking Books |
Picture Book | Jeannie Baker | Window | Julia MacRae | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [35] | Young People's Literature | Robin Klein | All in the Blue Unclouded Weather | Penguin Books Australia |
Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction [36] | Eleanor Nilsson | The House Guest | Viking |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Australian SF Achievement Award [42] | Best Australian Long Fiction | Terry Dowling | Wormwood | Aphelion |
Best Australian Short Fiction | Sean McMullen | "Alone in His Chariot" | Eidolon #4 Summer 1991 | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [32] | David Marr | Patrick White – A Life | Random House Australia |
The Age Book of the Year Award [29] | Ruth Park | A Fence Around the Cuckoo | Viking |
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1992 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.