This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Melbourne Prize for Literature [46] | Christos Tsiolkas |
Patrick White Award [47] | Adam Aitken |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal [48] | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Hachette Australia |
Colin Roderick Award [49] | Sofie Laguna | Infinite Splendours | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [50] | Pip Williams | The Dictionary of Lost Words | Affirm Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [51] | Ellen van Neerven | Throat | University of Queensland Press |
Stella Prize [52] | Evie Wyld | The Bass Rock | Penguin Random House |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [53] [54] | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | Scribe |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ARA Historical Novel Prize [57] | Children and Young Adult | Katrina Nannestad | We are Wolves | ABC Books |
Children's Book of the Year Award [65] | Older Readers | Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger than Love | Text |
Younger Readers | Kate Gordon | Aster's Good, Right Things | Riveted Press | |
Picture Book | Meg McKinlay, illus. Matt Ottley | How to Make a Bird | Walker Books | |
Early Childhood | Libby Hathorn & Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, illus. Mel Pearce | No! Never! | Lothian Books | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Pamela Freeman, illus. Liz Anelli | Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu | Walker Books | |
Nan Chauncy Award [66] | Jan Nicholls | |||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [50] | Children's | Amelia Mellor | The Grandest Bookshop in the World | Affirm Press |
Young Adult | Kate O'Donnell | This One is Ours | University of Queensland Press | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [62] [63] | Children's | Amelia Mellor | The Grandest Bookshop in the World | Affirm |
Young People's | Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger than Love | Text | |
Queensland Literary Awards [64] | Children's | Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Dub Leffler | Bindi | Magabala Books |
Young Adult | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Text | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [54] | Young Adult Fiction | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Text |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award [67] | Novel | Sally Hepworth | The Good Sister | Pan Macmillan |
Young adult novel | Christie Nieman | Where We Begin | Pan Macmillan | |
Children's novel | Lian Tanner | A Clue for Clara | Allen & Unwin | |
True crime | Louise Milligan | Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking Justice | Hachette Australia | |
Debut novel | Leah Swann | Sheerwater | HarperCollins | |
Readers' choice | Katherine Kovacic | The Shifting Landscape | Echo Publishing | |
Ned Kelly Award [68] | Novel | Garry Disher | Consolation | Text Publishing |
First novel | Loraine Peck | The Second Son | Penguin Books | |
True crime | Bret Christian | Stalking Claremont | HarperCollins | |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [55] | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award [69] | Ella Jeffery | Dead Bolt | Puncher & Wattmann |
Mary Gilmore Award [70] | Em König | Breathing Plural | Cordite |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [61] | Stephen Edgar | The Strangest Place: New and Selected Poems | Black Pepper |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [62] [63] | Ellen van Neerven | Throat | University of Queensland Press |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection [64] | Ouyang Yu | Terminally Poetic | Ginninderra Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [54] | David Stavanger | Case Notes | UWA Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [62] [63] | Script | Laurence Billiet | Freeman | General Strike and Matchbox Pictures |
Play | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk | The Street Theatre | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [54] | Angus Cerini | Wonnangatta | Sydney Theatre Company |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [55] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [50] | Non-Fiction | Julia Baird | Phosphorescence | Random House |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Lauren Camilleri & Sophia Kaplan | Plantopedia | Smith Street Books | |
National Biography Award [71] | Biography | Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [62] [63] | Non-Fiction | Kate Fullagar | The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire | Yale University Press |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards [72] | Australian History | Grace Karskens | People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia | Allen & Unwin |
Community and Regional History | Matthew Colloff | Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling people and environment | Thames & Hudson | |
General History | Luke Keogh | The Wardian Case: How a simple box moved plants and changed the world | The University of Chicago Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards [64] | Non-Fiction | Luke Stegemann | Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory | NewSouth Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [54] | Non-Fiction | Paddy Manning | Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us | Simon & Schuster |
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