This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2006.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award [19] | Geoff Page |
Melbourne Prize for Literature [20] | Helen Garner |
Patrick White Award [21] | Morris Lurie |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize [26] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Kate Grenville | The Secret River | Text Publishing |
Best Novel, Overall | Kate Grenville | The Secret River | Text Publishing | |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award [31] | Novel | Heather Rose | The Butterfly Man | University of Queensland Press |
Readers' Choice | Kerry Greenwood | Heavenly Pleasures | Allen & Unwin | |
Leigh Redhead | Rubdown | Allen & Unwin | ||
Young Adult Novel | Catherine Jinks | Evil Genius | Allen & Unwin | |
Ned Kelly Award [32] | Novel | Chris Nyst | Crook as Rookwood | HarperCollins |
Peter Temple | The Broken Shore | Text Publishing | ||
First novel | Wendy James | Out of the Silence | Random House | |
True crime | Lauchlin McCulloch | Packing Death | Floradale/Sly Ink | |
Lifetime achievement | Andrew Rule & John Silvester | |||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | Novel | Damien Broderick | K-Machines | Thunder's Mouth Press |
Short Story | Sean Williams | The Seventh Letter | "Bulletin" Magazine, Summer Reading Edition | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Sean Williams & Shane Dix | Geodesica: Ascent | HarperCollins |
Novella/Novelette | Kaaron Warren | "The Grinding House" | The Grinding House | |
Short Story | Kaaron Warren | "Fresh Young Widow" | The Grinding House | |
Collected Work | Robert Hood & Robin Pen | Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales | Agog! Press | |
Australian Shadows Award | Will Elliott | The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [28] | Luke Davies | Totem | Allen & Unwin |
The Age Book of the Year [22] | Jennifer Maiden | Friendly Fire | Giramondo Publishing |
Anne Elder Award [33] | Libby Hart | Fresh News from the Arctic | Interactive Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [34] | Alan Gould | The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003 | University of Queensland Press |
Mary Gilmore Prize [35] | David McCooey | Blister Pack | Salt Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Jaya Savige | Latecomers | University of Queensland Press |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | John Kinsella | The New Arcadia | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | John Tranter | Urban Myths: 210 Poems | University of Queensland Press |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Rod Moran | The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005 | Salt Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Patricia Cornelius | Do Not Go Gentle... | Currency Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [28] | Non-Fiction | Mandy Sayer | Velocity | Vintage Books |
The Age Book of the Year [22] | Non-Fiction | Mandy Sayer | Velocity | Vintage Books |
National Biography Award [36] | Biography | John Hughes | The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays | Giramondo Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Jacob G. Rosenberg | East of Time | Brandl & Schlesinger |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Richard Broome | Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 | Allen & Unwin |
Community and Regional History | Maria Nugent | Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet | Allen & Unwin | |
General History | R. J. B. Bosworth | Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 | Penguin Books | |
Young People's | Pamela Freeman | The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop’s Early Years | Black Dog Books | |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Neil Chenoweth | Packer's Lunch: A Rollicking Tale of Swiss Bank Accounts and Money-Making | Allen & Unwin |
History | Peter Edwards | Arthur Tange: The Last of the Mandarins | Allen & Unwin | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Helen Ennis | Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography | National Gallery of Australia |
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