2014 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014.

Events

• The State Library of Queensland takes over the running the Queensland Literary Awards which had previously been run by a group of volunteers. ^[1]

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies
• Emily Bitto – The Strays
• Peter Carey – Amnesia
• Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles
• Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys
• Janette Turner Hospital – The Claimant
• Wendy James – The Lost Girls
• Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep
• Joan London – The Golden Age
• Suzanne McCourt – The Lost Child
• Gerald Murnane – A Million Windows
• Omar Musa – Here Come the Dogs
• Favel Parrett – When the Night Comes
• Christine Piper – After Darkness
• Craig Sherborne – Tree Palace
• Inga Simpson – Nest
• Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect
• Rohan Wilson – To Name Those Lost

Short stories

• Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Animals

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Trace Balla – Rivertime
• Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
• Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures
• Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli (illustrated by Annie White)
• Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse
• Darren Groth – Are You Seeing Me?
• Rebecca James – Cooper Batholomew is Dead
• Ambelin Kwaymullina – The Lost Girl
• Alison Lester – Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach
• Rebecca Lim – The Astrologer's Daughter
• Doug MacLeod – Tigers on the Beach
• John Marsden – South of Darkness
• Alice Pung – Laurinda
• Diana Sweeney – The Minnow
• Claire Zorn – The Protected

Crime

• Honey Brown – Through the Cracks
• Candice Fox – Eden
• Katherine Howell – Deserving Death
• Barry Maitland – Crucifixion Creek
• P. M. Newton – Beams Falling
• Malla Nunn – Present Darkness
• Michael Rowbotham – Life or Death
• Jock Serong – Quota

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Trudi Canavan – Thief's Magic ^[2]
• Kate Forsyth – Wolves of the Witchwood ^[3]
• Patrick Holland – Navigatio ^[4]
• Juliet Marillier – The Cracks in the Kingdom ^[5]
• Garth Nix – Clariel
• Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China
• John A. Scott – N ^[6]

Drama

• Michael Gow – Once in Royal David's City
• Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home

Poetry

• Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems ^[7]
• Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford (edited by Oliver Dennis) ^[8]
• Gwen Harwood – The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood ^[9]
• John Kinsella – Sack ^[10]
• Geoffrey Lehmann – Poems 1957–2013 ^[11]
• Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
• David Malouf – Earth Hour ^[12]
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe – My Feet are Hungry ^[13]

Biographies

• Bob Brown – Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action
• Phil Butterss – An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis
• Matthew Condon – Jacks and Jokers
• Robert Dessaix – What Days Are For
• Rafael Epstein – Prisoner X
• Julia Gillard – My Story
• Dino Hodge – Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography
• John Howard – The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia
• Madonna King – Hockey : Not your average Joe
• Elizabeth Morrison – David Syme : Man of the Age
• Mandy Sayer – The Poet's Wife
• David Walsh – A Bone of Fact

Non-fiction

• Sophie Cunningham – Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy ^[14]
• Paul Kelly – Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation ^[15]
• Bruce Pascoe – Dark Emu
• Sam Vincent – Blood & Guts

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

Award	Author
Christopher Brennan Award [16]	Alan Wearne
Patrick White Award [17]	Brian Castro

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal [18]	Alexis Wright	The Swan Book	Giramondo Publishing
Colin Roderick Award [19]	Michael Wilding	Wild Bleak Bohemia : Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall - A Documentary	Australian Scholarly
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [20]	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Random House
Nita Kibble Literary Award [21]	Kristina Olsson	Boy Lost: A Family Memoir	University of Queensland Press
Stella Prize [22]	Clare Wright	The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka	Text Publishing
Victorian Prize for Literature [23]	Jennifer Maiden	Liquid Nitrogen	Giramondo Publishing

Fiction

International

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Man Booker Prize [24]	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Random House

National

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [25]	Frank Moorhouse	Cold Light	Vintage Books
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [26]	Christine Piper	After Darkness	Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award [27]	Margo Lanagan	Sea Hearts	Allen & Unwin
	Fiona McFarlane	The Night Guest	Penguin
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction [20]	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Random House
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction [20]	Hannah Kent	Burial Rites	Pan Macmillan
Miles Franklin Award [28]	Evie Wyld	All The Birds, Singing	Random House
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [29]	Steven Carroll	A World of Other People	Fourth Estate
	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Random House
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [30]	Michelle de Kretser	Questions of Travel	Allen & Unwin
Queensland Literary Awards [1]	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Random House
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [23]	Alex Miller	Coal Creek	Allen & Unwin

Children and Young Adult

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award	Older Readers	Fiona Wood	Wildlife	Pan MacMillan
	Younger Readers	Catherine Jinks	City of Orphans: A Very Unusual Pursuit	Allen & Unwin
	Picture Book	Freya Blackwood, text Irema Kobald	My Two Blankets	Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
	Early Childhood	Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood	Go to Sleep, Jessie!	Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [20]	Children's & YA	Alison Lester	Kissed by the Moon	Penguin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [30]	Children's	Katrina Nannestad	The Girl Who Brought Mischief	HarperCollins
	Young People's	AJ Betts	Zac and Mia	Text Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [23]	Young Adult Fiction	Barry Jonsberg	My Life as an Alphabet	Allen and Unwin

Crime and Mystery

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award [31]	Novel	Honey Brown	Dark Horse	Penguin Books
	Young Adult novel	Karen Foxlee	The Midnight Dress	University of Queensland Press
	Children's novel	Jen Storer	Spooked!	HarperCollins
	True crime	Anna Krien	Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport	Black Inc
	Debut novel	Hannah Kent	Burial Rites	Pan Macmillan
	Readers' choice	Hannah Kent	Burial Rites	Pan Macmillan
Ned Kelly Award [32]	Novel	Adrian McKinty	In The Morning I'll Be Gone	Allen and Unwin
	First novel	Candice Fox	Hades	Random House, Australia
	True crime	John Saffran	Murder in Mississippi	Hamish Hamilton
	Lifetime achievement	Not awarded

Science fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Aurealis Award	Sf Novel	Marianne de Pierres	Peacemaker	Angry Robot
	Sf Short Story	Thoraiya Dye	"Wine, Women, and Stars"	Analog
	Fantasy Novel	Juliet Marillier	Dreamer's Pool	Pan Macmillan Australia
	Fantasy Short Story	Angela Slatter	"St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls"	Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3
	Horror Novel	Justine Larbalestier	Razorhurst	Allen and Unwin
	Horror Short Story	Angela Slatter	"Home and Hearth"	Spectral Press (Home and Hearth)
	Young Adult Novel	Jaclyn Moriarty	The Cracks in the Kingdom	Pan Macmillan Australia
	Young Adult Short Story	Dirk Flinthart	"Vanilla"	Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope)
Ditmar Award	Novel	Robert Hood	Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead	Wildside Press
	Best Novella or Novelette	Kirstyn McDermott	"The Home for Broken Dolls"	Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press)
	Best Short Story	Cat Sparks	"Scarp"	The Bride Price (Ticonderoga Publications)

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [25]	Lisa Jacobson	The Sunlit Zone	5 Islands Press
Anne Elder Award [33]	Vanessa Page	Confessional Box	Walleah Press
Mary Gilmore Prize [34]	Rose Lucas	Even in the Dark	UWA Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [30]	Fiona Hile	Novelties	Hunter
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [23]	Jennifer Maiden	Liquid Nitrogen	Giramondo Publishing

Drama

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [30]	Script	Kris Mrksa	Devil's Dust	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Patrick White Playwrights' Award	Award	Debra Thomas	The Man's Bitch	Sydney Theatre Company
	Fellowship	Kate Mulvany
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [23]	Drama	Patricia Cornelius	Savages	Playlab

Non-Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [25]	Non-Fiction	Kate Richards	Madness: A Memoir	Penguin Books
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [20]	Non-Fiction	David Hunt	Girt	Black Inc.
National Biography Award [35]	Biography	Alison Alexander	The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [30]	Non-Fiction	Kristina Olsson	Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir	University of Queensland Press
		Michael Fullilove	Rendezvous with Destiny	Penguin Books
New South Wales Premier's History Awards	Australian History	Joan Beaumont	Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War	Allen & Unwin
	Community and Regional History	Ian Hoskins	Coast: A History of the New South Wales Edge	NewSouth
	General History	John Gascoigne	Encountering the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment	Cambridge University Press
	Young People's	Nadia Wheatley, illustrated by Ken Searle	Australians All	Allen & Unwin
Queensland Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Paul Ham	1914: The Year the World Ended	Random House Australia
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [23]	Non-fiction	Henry Reynolds	Forgotten War	NewSouth

Deaths

• 14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist (born 1935) ^[36]
• 10 April – Doris Pilkington Garimara, novelist (born c.1937)
• 17 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (born 1957)
• 19 September – Rod Milgate, playwright and painter (born 1934) ^[37]
• 8 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (born 1938) ^[38]
• 3 November – Michael Fitzgerald Page, writer and publisher (born 1922)

See also

• 2014 in Australia
• 2014 in literature
• 2014 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature
• List of Australian literary awards

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Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.