This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
---|---|
Melbourne Prize for Literature [57] | Alison Lester |
Patrick White Award [58] | Samuel Wagan Watson |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
ALS Gold Medal [59] | Shastra Deo | The Agonist | University of Queensland Press |
Colin Roderick Award [60] | Jock Serong | On the Java Ridge | Text Publishing |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [61] | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Lothian |
Nita Kibble Literary Award [62] | Fiona McFarlane | The High Places | Hodder and Stoughton |
Stella Prize [63] | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Giramondo |
Victorian Prize for Literature [64] | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Staunch Book Prize [65] | Jock Serong | On the Java Ridge | Text Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [66] | Eva Hornung | The Last Garden | Text Publishing |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [67] | Emily O'Grady | The Yellow House | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award [68] | Libby Angel | The Trapeze Act | Text Publishing |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction [61] | Sofie Laguna | The Choke | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction [61] | Mark Brandi | Wimmera | Hachette Australia |
Miles Franklin Award [69] [70] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [71] | Gerald Murnane | Border Districts | Giramondo |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [72] | Bram Presser | The Book of Dirt | Text Publishing |
Queensland Literary Awards [73] | Kim Scott | Taboo | Pan Macmillan |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [74] | Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Text Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award [75] | Older Readers | Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell | Take Three Girls | Pan Macmillan |
Younger Readers | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Allen & Unwin | |
Picture Book | Gwyn Perkins | A Walk in the Bush | Affirm Press | |
Early Childhood | Michael Gerard Bauer; Chrissie Krebs (illustrator) | Rodney Loses It! | Omnibus Books | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Idan Ben-Barak, illus. Julian Frost | Do Not Lick This Book | Allen & Unwin | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [61] | Children's | Jessica Townsend | Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow | Lothian |
Young Adult | Mark Smith | Wilder Country | Text Publishing | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [72] | Children's | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Allen & Unwin |
Young People's | Zana Fraillon | The Ones That Disappeared | Lothian | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [74] | Young Adult Fiction | Demet Divaroren | Living on Hope Street | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award [76] | Novel | Emma Viskic | And Fire Came Down | Echo Books |
Young adult novel | Vikki Wakefield | Ballad for a Mad Girl | Text Publishing | |
Children's novel | Allison Rushby | The Turnkey | Walker Books | |
True crime | Gabriella Coslovich | Whitely on Trial | Melbourne University Press | |
Debut novel | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Allen & Unwin | |
Readers' choice | Jane Harper | Force of Nature | Pan Macmillan | |
Ned Kelly Award [77] | Novel | Sulari Gentill | Crossing the Lines | Pantera |
First novel | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Allen & Unwin | |
True crime | Graham Archer | Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney | Random House | |
Lifetime achievement | Garry Disher | |||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ditmar Award [78] | Novel | Thoraiya Dyer | Crossroads of Canopy | Tor |
Best Novella or Novelette | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Girl Reporter" | Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers Publishing) | |
Best Short Story | Janeen Webb | "A Pearl Beyond Price" | Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1 (IFWG Publishing Australia) | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [66] | Pam Brown | Missing Up | Vagabond Press |
Anne Elder Award [79] | Rico Craig | Bone Ink | Guillotine Press |
Mary Gilmore Award [80] | Quinn Eades | Rallying | UWA Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [72] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [74] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [72] | Script (joint winners) | Amanda Blue and Jacob Hickey | Deep Water: The Real Story | Blackfella Films |
Jane Campion and Gerard Lee | Birthday, Top of the Lake: China Girl, Series 2 Episode 4 | See Saw Films | ||
Play | Nakkiah Lui | Black is the New White | Sydney Theatre Company |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [66] | Non-Fiction | Tim Winton | The Boy Behind the Curtain | Penguin Books |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [61] | Non-Fiction | Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason | Saga Land | HarperCollins |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters | Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants | Thames & hudson | |
National Biography Award [81] | Biography | Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [72] | Non-Fiction | Paul Ham | Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth | William Heinemann Australia |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards [82] | Australian History | Christina Twomey | The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia | NewSouth Publishing |
Community and Regional History | Paul Irish | Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney | NewSouth Publishing | |
General History | Sean Scalmer | On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia | Temple University Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards [73] | Non-Fiction | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Giramondo Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [74] | Non-fiction | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing |
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