This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Mona Brand Award [66] | Kate Mulvany |
Patrick White Award [67] | Gregory Day |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal [68] | Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | Cordite Press |
Colin Roderick Award [69] | Sally Young | Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires | NewSouth Publishing |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [70] | Favel Parrett | There Was Still Love | Hachette |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [71] | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Penguin Random House |
Stella Prize [72] | Jess Hill | See What You Made Me Do | Black Inc |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [73] [74] | S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack | Counting and Cracking | Belvoir and Co-Curious |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award [84] | Older Readers | Vikki Wakefield | This Is How We Change the Ending | Text Publishing |
Younger Readers | Pip Harry | The Little Wave | University of Queensland Press | |
Picture Book | Chris McKimmie | I Need a Parrot | Ford Street | |
Early Childhood | Frances Watts | My Friend Fred | Allen & Unwin | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Bruce Pascoe | Young Dark Emu: A truer history | Magabala Books | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [70] | Children's | Sami Bayly | The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals | Lothian |
Young Adult | Wal Chim | The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling | Allen & Unwin | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [81] | Children's | Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley | Ella and the Ocean | Allen & Unwin |
Young People's | Karen Foxlee | Lenny's Book of Everything | Allen & Unwin | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [73] [74] | Young Adult Fiction | Helena Fox | How It Feels to Float | Pan Macmillan Australia |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Barry Award [85] | Novel | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Pan Macmillan |
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award [86] | Novel | Michael Robotham | Good Girl, Bad Girl | Hachette Australia |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award [87] | Novel | Meg Mundell | The Trespassers | University of Queensland Press |
Young adult novel | Astrid Scholte | Four Dead Queens | Allen & Unwin | |
Children's novel | Jenny Blackford | The Girl in the Mirror | Eagle Books | |
True crime | Adele Ferguson | Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the Truth | HarperCollins | |
Debut novel | Susan Hurley | Eight Lives | Affirm Press | |
Readers' choice | Dervla McTiernan | The Scholar | HarperCollins | |
Emma Viskic | Darkness for Light | Echo Publishing | ||
Ned Kelly Award [88] | Novel | Christian White | The Wife and the Widow | Affirm Press |
First novel | Natalie Conyer | Present Tense | Clan Destine Press | |
True crime | Dan Box | Bowraville | Viking Books | |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Ditmar Award [89] | Novel | Gillian Polack | The Year of the Fruit Cake | IFWG Publishing |
Best Short Fiction | Rivqa Rafael | "Whom My Soul Loves" | ||
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [75] | Natalie Harkin | Archival-Poetics | Vagabond Press |
Anne Elder Award (joint winners) [90] | Cham Zhi Yi | blur by the | Subbed In |
Gareth Sion Jenkins | Recipes for the Disaster | Five Islands Press | |
Mary Gilmore Award [91] | Thom Sullivan | Carte Blanche | Vagabond Press |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [80] | Omar Sakr | The Lost Arabs | University of Queensland Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [81] | Peter Boyle | Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness | Vagabond Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [73] [74] | Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | Cordite |
Award | Category | Author | Title |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [81] | Script | Kylie Boltin | Missing |
Jacquelin Perske | The Cry , Episode 2 | ||
Play | S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack | Counting and Cracking | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [73] | Drama | S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack | Counting and Cracking |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [75] | Non-Fiction | Meredith Lake | The Bible in Australia | NewSouth |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [70] | Non-Fiction | Archie Roach | Tell Me Why | Simon and Schuster Australia |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Paul Byrnes | The Lost Boys | Affirm Press | |
National Biography Award [92] | Biography | Patrick Mullins | Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon | Scribe Publications |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [81] | Non-Fiction | Patrick Mullins | Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon | Scribe Publications |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | James Dunk | Bedlam at Botany Bay | NewSouth Publishing [93] |
Community and Regional History | Callum Clayton-Dixon | Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of Colonial Apocalypse | Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation [94] | |
General History | Kate Fullagar | The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire | Yale University Press [95] | |
Queensland Literary Awards [82] | Non-Fiction | Joe Gorman | Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [73] [74] | Non-Fiction | Christina Thompson | Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia | HarperCollins |