This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2016.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Mona Brand Award [1] | Joanna Murray-Smith |
Patrick White Award [40] | Carmel Bird |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal [41] | Brenda Niall | Mannix | Text Publishing |
Colin Roderick Award [42] | Gail Jones | A Guide to Berlin | Random House |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [43] | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things | Allen & Unwin |
Nita Kibble Literary Award [44] | Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance | Giramondo Publishing |
Stella Prize [45] | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things | Allen & Unwin |
Victorian Prize for Literature [46] | Mary Anne Butler | Broken | Currency Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award [56] | Older Readers | Fiona Wood | Cloudwish | Macmillan Australia |
Younger Readers | Morris Gleitzman | Soon | Viking Books | |
Picture Book | Nadia Wheatley, text Armin Greder, illus. | Flight | Windy Hollow Books | |
Early Childhood | Anna Walker | Mr Huff | Penguin Random House | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [43] | Children's | Aaron Blabey | The Bad Guys: Episode 1 | Scholastic Australia |
Young Adult | Fiona Wood | Cloudwish | Pan MacMillan | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley | Teacup | Scholastic Australia |
Young People's | Alice Pung | Laurinda | Black Inc. | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [46] | Young Adult Fiction | Marlee Jane Ward | Welcome to Orphancorp | Xou Pty Ltd |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award [57] | Novel | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing |
Young adult novel | Fleur Ferris | Risk | Random House | |
Children's novel | R. A Spratt | Friday Barnes, Under Suspicion | Random House | |
True crime | Alecia Simmonds | Wild Man | Affirm Press | |
Debut novel | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing | |
Fleur Ferris | Risk | Random House | ||
Readers' choice | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing | |
Ned Kelly Award [57] | Novel | Dave Warner | Before It Breaks | Fremantle Press |
First novel | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing | |
True crime | Gideon Haigh | Certain Admissions | Penguin | |
Lifetime achievement | Not awarded | |||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff | Gemima: The Illuminae Files 2 | Allen & Unwin |
Sf Short Story | Samantha Murray | "Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart" | Clarkesworld 122 | |
Fantasy Novel | Jay Kristoff | Nevernight | Harper Voyager | |
Fantasy Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest" | In Your Face (FableCroft Publishing) | |
Horror Novel | Kaaron Warren | The Grief Hole | IFWG Publishing Australia | |
Horror Short Story | TR Napper | "Flame Trees" | Asimov’s Science Fiction | |
Young Adult Novel | Alison Goodman | Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact | HarperCollins Publishers | |
Young Adult Short Story | Leife Shallcross | "Pretty Jennie Greenteeth" | Strange Little Girls (Belladonna Publishing) | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Lisa L. Hannett | Lament for the Afterlife | ChiZine Publications |
Best Novella or Novelette | Sean Williams | "Of Sorrow and Such" | Of Sorrow and Such (Tor.com) | |
Best Short Story | Kathleen Jennings | "A Hedge of Yellow Roses" | Hear Me Roar (Ticonderoga Publications) | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [47] | Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Black Inc Press |
Anne Elder Award [58] | John Hawke | Aurelia | Cordite Books |
Mary Gilmore Award [59] | Benedict Andrews | Lens Flare | Pitt Street Poetry |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [60] | Joanne Burns | brush | Giramondo Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [46] | Alan Loney | Crankhandle | Cordite Books |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards [54] | Lucy Dougan | The Guardians | Giramondo Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Script | Cate Shortland | Deadline Gallipoli , Episode 4: "The Letter" | Matchbox Pictures & Full Clip Productions |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Lewis Treston | Hot Tub | Sydney Theatre Company |
Fellowship | Andrew Bovell |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [47] | Non-Fiction | Robert Dessaix | What Days Are For | Random House Australia |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [43] | Non-Fiction | Magda Szubanski | Reckoning: A Memoir | Text Publishing |
National Biography Award [61] | Biography | Brenda Niall | Mannix | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Magda Szubanski | Reckoning: A Memoir | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Stuart Macintyre | Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s | NewSouth Books |
Community and Regional History | Tanya Evans | Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales | University of New South Wales Press | |
General History | Ann McGrath | Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia | Nebraska University Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger | Giramondo |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [46] | Non-fiction | Gerald Murnane | Something for the Pain | Text Publishing |
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.