This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Patrick White Award [41] | Jordie Albiston |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal [42] | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Vagabond Press |
Colin Roderick Award [43] | Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Hamish Hamilton |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [44] | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [45] | Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc |
Stella Prize [46] | Vicki Laveau-Harvie | The Erratics | Fourth Estate |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [47] | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains | Belvoir and Co-Curious |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [48] | Not awarded | ||
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [49] | Not awarded | ||
Barbara Jefferis Award [50] | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction [44] | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Picador |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction [44] | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Fourth Estate |
Miles Franklin Award [51] | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | University of Queensland Press |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [52] | Gail Jones | The Death of Noah Glass | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [53] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
Queensland Literary Awards [54] | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Text Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [55] | Elise Valmorbida | The Madonna of the Mountains | Faber & Faber |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award [56] | Older Readers | Clare Atkins | Between Us | Black Inc. |
Younger Readers | Emily Rodda | His Name Was Walter | HarperCollins | |
Picture Book | Shaun Tan | Cicada | Lothian | |
Early Childhood | Alison Lester | Trick's Bad Day | Affirm | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Coral Vass, illustrated by Dub Leffler | Sorry Day | National Library of Australia | |
Nan Chauncy Award [57] | James Moloney | |||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [44] | Children's | Karen Foxlee | Lenny's Book of Everything | Allen & Unwin |
Young Adult | Barry Jonsberg | A Song Only I Can Hear | Allen & Unwin | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [53] | Children's | Lorraine Marwood (joint winner) | Leave Taking | University of Queensland Press |
Claire Saxby and Tannya Harricks (joint winner) | Dingo | Walker Books | ||
Young People's | Erin Gough | Amelia Westlake | Hardie Grant Egmont | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [55] | Young Adult Fiction | Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina | Catching Teller Crow | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award [58] | Novel | Dervla McTiernan | The Rúin | HarperCollins |
Young adult novel | Sarah Epstein | Small Spaces | Walker Books | |
Children's novel | Judith Rossell | Wakestone Hall | ABC Books | |
True crime | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire | Penguin | |
Debut novel | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Allen & Unwin | |
Readers' choice | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan | |
Ned Kelly Award [59] | Novel | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan |
First novel | Dervla McTiernan | The Rúin | HarperCollins | |
True crime | Bri Lee | Eggshell Skull | Allen & Unwin | |
Lifetime achievement | Bob Bottom | |||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ditmar Award [60] | Novel | Sam Hawke | City of Lies (Poison Wars 1) | Tor Books |
Best Novella or Novelette | Tansy Rayner Roberts | Cabaret of Monsters | self-published | |
Best Short Story | Kathleen Jennings | "The Heart of Owl Abbas" | Tor.com | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [48] | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award [61] | Eunice Andrada | Flood Damages | Giramondo |
Mary Gilmore Award [62] | Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | Cordite |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [53] | Judith Bishop | Interval | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [55] | Kate Lilley | Tilt | Vagabond Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [53] | Script | Benjamin Gilmour | Jirga | Felix Media Pty Ltd |
Play | Kendall Feaver | The Almighty Sometimes | Griffin Theatre |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [48] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [44] | Non-Fiction | Chloe Hooper | The Arsonist | Random House Australia |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Marcia Langton | Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country | Hardie Grant Travel | |
National Biography Award [63] | Biography | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [53] | Non-Fiction | Billy Griffiths (joint winner) | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Black Inc. |
Sarah Krasnostein (joint winner) | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing | ||
New South Wales Premier's History Awards [64] | Australian History | Meredith Lake | The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History | NewSouth Books |
Community and Regional History | Sarah Luke | Callan Park, Hospital for the Insane | Australian Scholarly Publishing | |
General History | Christina Thompson | Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia | Harper | |
Queensland Literary Awards [54] | Non-Fiction | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Scribe |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [55] | Non-Fiction | Behrouz Boochani | No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison | Picador Australia |
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