This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award [68] | Judith Beveridge |
Patrick White Award [69] | Louis Nowra |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal [70] | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Allen & Unwin |
Colin Roderick Award [71] | Ashley Hay | The Railwayman's Wife | Allen & Unwin |
Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Black Pepper | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [72] | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans | Vintage Australia |
Nita Kibble Literary Award [73] | Annah Faulkner | The Beloved | Picador |
Stella Prize [74] | Carrie Tiffany | Mateship with Birds | Pan Macmillan |
Victorian Prize for Literature [75] | Not awarded | ||
Award | Region | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Book Prize [76] | Pacific | Michael Sala | The Last Thread | Affirm Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award [86] | Novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan |
Young adult novel | Jennifer Walsh | The Tunnels of Tarcoola | Allen & Unwin | |
True Crime | Pamela Burton | The Waterlow Killings | Melbourne University Press | |
Debut novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan | |
Readers' choice | Kerry Greenwood | Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery | NewSouth Publishing | |
Ned Kelly Award [87] | Novel | Geoffrey McGeachin | Blackwattle Creek | Penguin Books |
First novel | Zane Lovitt | The Midnight Promise | Text Publishing | |
True crime | Robin de Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Viking | |
Lifetime Achievement | Not awarded | |||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Max Barry | Lexicon | Hachette |
SF Short Story | Kaaron Warren | "Air, Water, and the Grove" | Pandemonimum Press (The Lowest Heaven) | |
Fantasy Novel | Mitchell Hogan | A Crucible of Souls | Mitchell Hogan | |
Fantasy Short Story | Jay Kristoff | "The Last Stormdancer" | Thomas Dunne Books | |
Horror Novel | Allyse Near | Fairytales for Wilde Girls | Random House Australia | |
Horror Short Story | Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | |
Anthology | Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene | The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror | Ticonderoga Publications | |
Tehani Wessely | One Small Step, An Anthology of Discoveries | FableCroft Publishing | ||
Collection | Joanne Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
Australian Shadows Awards | Novel | Marty Young | 809 Jacob Street | Black Beacon Books |
Long Fiction | Kaaron Warren | "The Unwanted Women of Surrey" | Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling | |
Short Fiction | Debbie Cowens | "Caterpillars" | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror edited by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray | |
Edited Publication | Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray, editors | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | Paper Road Press | |
Collected Works | Jo Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and other stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen & Unwin |
Novella/Novelette | Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) | |
Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "The Wisdom of Ants" | Clarkesworld 75 | |
Collected Work | Kaaron Warren, edited by Alisa Krasnostein | Through Splintered Walls | Twelfth Planet Press | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [77] | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award [88] | Elizabeth Allen | Body Language | Vagabond Press |
Mary Gilmore Prize [89] | Not awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [82] | Ali Cobby Eckermann | Ruby Moonlight | Magabala Books |
Queensland Literary Awards | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully | W. W. Norton |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [75] | Not awarded | ||
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards [84] | Not awarded | ||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [82] | Play | Reg Cribb | The Damned | The Yellow Agency |
Script | Louise Fox | Dead Europe | See Saw Films; Porchlight Films | |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Chris Summers | King Artur | |
Fellowship | Angela Betzien |