This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2008.
See also 2008 in poetry
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award | Not awarded |
Patrick White Award [25] | John Romeril |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year [26] | Don Watson | American Journeys | Random House |
ALS Gold Medal [27] | Michelle de Kretser | The Lost Dog | Allen & Unwin |
Colin Roderick Award [28] | Malcolm Knox | Jamaica | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [29] | Tim Winton | Breath | Hamish Hamilton |
Nita Kibble Literary Award [30] | Carol Lefevre | Nights in the Asylum | Vintage |
Award | Region | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize [31] | SE Asia and South Pacific | Best Novel | Steven Carroll | The Time We Have Taken | HarperCollins |
Best First Novel | Karen Foxlee | The Anatomy of Wings | University of Queensland Press | ||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award [40] | Novel | Katherine Howell | Frantic | Pan Macmillan |
Young adult novel | Mandy Sayer | The Night Has a Thousand Eyes | Fourth Estate | |
True crime | Janet Fife-Yeomans | Killing Jodie | Penguin | |
Readers' Choice | Lindy Cameron | Scarlet Stiletto: The First Cut | Mira Books | |
Ned Kelly Award [41] | Novel | Michael Robotham | Shatter | Sphere Books |
First novel | Chris Womersley | The Low Road | Scribe | |
True crime | Evan McHugh | Red Centre, Dark Heart | Penguin | |
Lifetime achievement | Marele Day | |||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | SF Novel | K. A. Bedford | Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait | Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing |
SF Short Story | Simon Brown | "The Empire" | Dreaming Again, Voyager | |
Fantasy Novel | Alison Goodman | The Two Pearls of Wisdom | HarperCollins | |
Fantasy Short Story | Cat Sparks | "Sammarynda Deep" | Paper Cities, Senses 5 Press | |
Horror Novel | John Harwood | The Seance | Random House | |
Horror Short Story | Kirstyn McDermott | "Painlessness" | Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2 | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Sean Williams | Saturn Returns | Orbit Books |
Novella/Novelette | Cat Sparks | "Lady of Adestan" | Orb #7 | |
Short Story | Rick Kennett | "The Dark and What It Said" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #28 | |
Collected Work | Jonathan Strahan ed. | The New Space Opera | HarperCollins | |
Russell B. Farr ed. | Fantastic Wonder Stories | Ticonderoga Publications | ||
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [33] | John Tranter | Urban Myths: 210 Poems | University of Queensland Press |
The Age Book of the Year | J. S. Harry | Not Finding Wittgenstein | Giramondo Publishing |
Anne Elder Award [42] | Sarah Holland-Batt | Aria | University of Queensland Press |
Sandy Fitts | View from the Lucky Hotel | Five Islands Press | |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [43] | Alan Wearne | The Australian Popular Songbook | Giramondo Publishing |
Mary Gilmore Prize [44] | Nathan Shepherdson | Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror | University of Queensland Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Kathryn Lomer | Two Kinds of Silence | University of Queensland Press |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | David Malouf | Typewriter Music | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Lisa Gorton | Press Release | Giramondo Publishing |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Hal Colebatch | The Light River | Connorcourt Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Nicki Bloom | Bloodwood | |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [33] | Non-Fiction | Jacob G. Rosenberg | Sunrise West | Brandl and Schlesinger |
The Age Book of the Year | Non-fiction | Don Watson | American Journeys | Random House |
Children's Book of the Year Award | Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Frances Watts, illus David Legge | Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books | ABC Books |
Davitt Award | True crime | Janet Fife-Yeomans | Killing Jodie | Penguin Books |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [29] | Non-Fiction | Don Watson | American Journeys | Random House |
National Biography Award | Philip Dwyer | Napoleon: The Path To Power 1769–1799 | Bloomsbury Publishing | |
Graham Seal | These Few Lines: A Convict Story – The Lost Lives of Myra & William Sykes | ABC Books | ||
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Philip Jones | Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers | Wakefield Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Tom Griffiths | Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica | University of New South Wales Press |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Paul Ham | Vietnam: The Australian War | HarperCollins |
Community and Regional History | Dianne Johnson, in collaboration with the residents of the Gully and their descendants | Sacred Waters: the story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners | Halstead Press | |
General History | Michael A. McDonnell | The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia | University of North Carolina Press | |
Young People's | Robert Lewis and Tim Gurry | Australians in the Vietnam War | Ryebuck Media Pty Ltd | |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Craig Sherborne | Muck | Black Inc |
History | Professor Marilyn Lake and Professor Henry Reynolds | Drawing the Global Colour Line | Melbourne University Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Meredith Hooper | The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica | Allen & Unwin |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Non-fiction | Antonio Buti | Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience | University of Western Australia Press |
Western Australian history | Ruth Marchant James | Cottesloe: A Town of Distinction | Town of Cottesloe | |
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