This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Melbourne Prize for Literature [67] | Alexis Wright |
| Mona Brand Award [68] | Belinda Chayko |
| Patrick White Award [69] | Pi O |
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal [70] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
| Colin Roderick Award [71] | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | University of Queensland Press |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [72] | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Black Inc |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [73] | Ali Cobby Eckermann | She Is the Earth | Magabala Books |
| Stella Prize [74] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [75] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARA Historical Novel Prize [78] | Children and Young Adult | Beverley McWilliams | Spies in the Sky | Pantera Press |
| Children's Book of the Year Award [86] | Older Readers | Karen Comer | Grace Notes | Lothian |
| Younger Readers | Tristan Bancks | Scar Town | Puffin | |
| Picture Book | Kelly Canby | Timeless | Fremantle Press | |
| Early Childhood | Briony Stewart | Gymnastica Fantastica! | Lothian | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway, illus by Louise Hogan | Country Town | Fremantle Press | |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [72] | Children's | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet | Allen & Unwin |
| Young Adult | Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes | Welcome to Sex | Hardie Grant | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards [82] | Children's | Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti | Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country | Hardie Grant |
| Young Adult | Will Kostakis | We Could Be Something | Allen & Unwin | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [87] | Children's | Levi Pinfold | Paradise Sands: A story of enchantment | Walker Books |
| Young People's | Helena Fox | The Quiet and the Loud | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
| Queensland Literary Awards [84] | Children's | Karen Comer | Sunshine on Vinegar Street | Allen & Unwin |
| Young Adult | sydney knoo | The Spider and Her Demons | Penguin | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [75] | Young Adult Fiction | Lili Wilkinson | A Hunger of Thorns | Allen & Unwin |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards [88] | Children's | Dianne Wolfer | Scout and the Rescue Dogs | Walker Books |
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award [89] | Novel | Monica Vuu | When One of Us Hurts | Pan Macmillan |
| Young adult novel | Amy Doak | Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer | Penguin Books | |
| Children's novel | Lucinda Gifford | The Wolves of Greycoat Hall | Walker Books | |
| Non-fiction | Rebecca Hazel | The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife | Vintage Books | |
| Debut | Christine Keighery | The Half Brother | Ultimo | |
| Readers' choice | Alison Goodman | The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies | HarperCollins | |
| Ned Kelly Award [90] | Novel | Sally Hepworth | Darling Girls | Pan Macmillan |
| First novel | Matt Francis | Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point | Big Sky Publishing | |
| True crime | Nick McKenzie | Crossing the Line | Hachette Australia | |
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year [77] | Non-Fiction | Ross McMullin | Life So Full of Promise | Scribe |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [72] | Non-Fiction | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Black Inc |
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Wendy Cooper | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper | National Library of Australia | |
| National Biography Award [91] | Biography | Lamisse Hamouda | The Shape of Dust: a father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him | Pantera Press |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards [82] | Non-Fiction | Daniel Browning | Close to the Subject: Selected Works | Magabala Books |
| Australian History | Ryan Cropp | Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country | La Trobe University Press | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [87] | Non-Fiction | Christine Kenneally | Ghosts of the Orphanage | Hachette Australia |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards [92] | Australian History | Alecia Simmonds | Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law | La Trobe University Press, with Black Inc [93] |
| Community and Regional History | Shauna Bostock | Reaching Through Time: Finding my family's stories | Allen & Unwin | |
| General History | Katharine E. McGregor | Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia | University of Wisconsin Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards [84] | Non-Fiction | Abbas El-Zein | Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars | Upswell |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [75] | Non-Fiction | Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | University of Queensland Press |
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [76] | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | University of Queensland Press |
| Anne Elder Award [94] | Sara M. Saleh | The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat | University of Queensland Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award [95] | Dan Hogan | Secret Third Thing | Cordite Books |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards [82] | Amy Crutchfield | The Cyprian | Giramondo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [87] | Tais Rose Wae | Riverbed Sky Songs | Vagabond Press |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection [84] | L. K. Holt | Three Books | Vagabond Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [75] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [87] | Script | Anna Barnes | Safe Home , Episode 1 | Kindling Pictures |
| Play | Nicholas Brown | Sex Magick | Griffin Theatre Company & Currency Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [75] | S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack | The Jungle and the Sea | Belvoir St Theatre & Currency Press | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award [96] | Award | Not awarded | ||
| Fellowship | Not awarded |
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