This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013.
Events
- James Ley launches the Sydney Review of Books[1] to provide "an opportunity for Australia's critics to rediscover the art of literary criticism".[2]
- The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize is announced.[3]
- The shortlist of the Miles Franklin Award contains only female writers for the first time.[4]
- Nicole Bourke, writing under the pseudonym "N. A. Sulway", becomes the first Australian writer to win the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for her novel Rupetta.[5]
- Aora Children's Literature Research Centre in Sydney closes after 12 years of operation.[6]
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Debra Adelaide – Letter to George Clooney
- Steven Carroll – A World of Other People
- J. M. Coetzee – The Childhood of Jesus
- Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Andrea Goldsmith – The Memory Trap
- Ashley Hay – The Railwayman's Wife
- Tom Keneally – Shame and the Captives
- Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
- Melissa Lucashenko – Mullumbimby
- Colleen McCullough – Bittersweet
- Fiona McFarlane – The Night Guest
- Alex Miller – Coal Creek
- Di Morrissey – The Winter Sea
- Cory Taylor – My Beautiful Enemy
- Christos Tsiolkas – Barracuda
- Felicity Volk – Lightning
- Tim Winton – Eyrie
- Alexis Wright – The Swan Book
- Evie Wyld – All The Birds, Singing
Children's and young adult fiction
- Alyssa Brugman – Alex as Well
- J. C. Burke – Pretty Girl
- Felicity Castagna – The Incredible Here and How
- Mem Fox – Baby Bedtime
- Mem Fox – Yoo-hoo, Ladybird!
- Kerry Greenwood – Evan's Gallipoli: A Gripping Story of Unlikely Friendship and an Incredible Journey behind Enemy Lines
- Richard Harland – Song of the Slums
- Karen Healey – When We Wake
- Melissa Keil – Life in Outer Space
- Tania McCartney – An Aussie Year: Twelve Months in the Life of Australian Kids
- Fiona Wood – Wildlife
Science fiction and fantasy
- Max Barry – Lexicon
- Greg Egan – The Arrows of Time
- Jennifer Fallon – Reunion
- Traci Harding – Dreaming of Zhou Gong
- Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: Safe Art
- Fiona McIntosh – The Scrivener's Tale
- Juliet Marillier – The Caller
- James Phelan – 13
- N. A. Sulway – Rupetta
Crime and mystery
- Honey Brown – Dark Horse
- Peter Corris – The Dunbar Case
- Garry Disher – Bitter Wash Road
- Karen Foxlee – The Midnight Dress
- Poppy Gee – Bay of Fires
- Katherine Howell – Web of Deceit
- Stuart Littlemore —Harry Curry: Rats and Mice
- Adrian McKinty – I Hear the Sirens in the Street
- Barry Maitland – The Raven's Eye
- Matthew Reilly – The Tournament
- Michael Robotham – Watching You
- Angela Savage – The Dying Beach
- David Whish-Wilson – Zero at the Bone
- Chris Womersley – Cairo
Poetry
- Pamela Brown – Home by Dark
- Lisa Gorton
- The Best Australian Poems 2013
- Hotel Hyperion
- John Kinsella – The Vision of Error: A Sextet of Activist Poems
- Kate Middleton – Ephemeral Waters
- Geoff Page
- 1953
- New Selected Poems
- Dorothy Porter – The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe – New and Selected Poems
Biography
- Alison Alexander – The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer
- Andrew Burell – Twiggy: The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest
- Gabrielle Carey – Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family
- Matthew Condon – Three Crooked Kings
- David Day – Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson
- Stephen Dando-Collins – Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus
- Susanna de Vries – Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front
- Jesse Fink – The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC
- Peter FitzSimons – Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend
- David Marr – The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell
- Kristina Olsson – Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
- Michael Pembroke – Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy
- John Safran – Murder in Mississippi: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book
- Margaret Simons – Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man
- Helen Trinca – Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St. John
- Clare Wright – The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[7] | Judith Beveridge |
| Patrick White Award[8] | Louis Nowra |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[9] | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Allen & Unwin |
| Stella Prize[10] | Carrie Tiffany | Mateship with Birds | Pan Macmillan |
Fiction
National
Children and young adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen and Unwin |
| Younger Readers | Sonya Hartnett | The Children of the King | Viking Books | |
| Picture Book | Ron Brooks and Julie Hunt | The Coat | Allen and Unwin | |
| Early Childhood | Emma Allen, illus. Freya Blackwood | The Terrible Suitcase | Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia | |
| Davitt Award | Young Adult Novel | Jennifer Walsh | The Tunnels of Tarcoola | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Aaron Blabey | The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon | Penguin Books |
| Young People's | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Pan Macmillan | |
| Queensland Literary Awards | Children's | Narelle Oliver | Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! | Omnibus Books |
| Young Adult | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Pan Macmillan | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | No award | ||
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Children's | Dianne Wolfer, illus. by Brian Simmonds | Light Horse Boy | Fremantle Press |
| Jan Ormerod, illus. by Andrew Joyner | The Swap | Hardie Grant | ||
| Writing for Young Adults | Alyssa Brugman | Alex As Well | Text Publishing | |
Crime and mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award | Novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan |
| Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Geoffrey McGeachin | Blackwattle Creek | Penguin Books |
| First novel | Candice Fox | Hades | Random House Australia | |
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Max Barry | Lexicon | Hachette |
| SF Short Story | Kaaron Warren | "Air, Water, and the Grove" | Pandemonimum Press (The Lowest Heaven) | |
| Fantasy Novel | Mitchell Hogan | A Crucible of Souls | Mitchell Hogan | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Jay Kristoff | "The Last Stormdancer" | Thomas Dunne Books | |
| Horror Novel | Allyse Near | Fairytales for Wilde Girls | Random House Australia | |
| Horror Short Story | Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | |
| Anthology | Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene | The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror | Ticonderoga Publications | |
| Tehani Wessely | One Small Step, An Anthology of Discoveries | FableCroft Publishing | ||
| Collection | Joanne Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
| Australian Shadows Awards | Novel | Marty Young | 809 Jacob Street | Black Beacon Books |
| Long Fiction | Kaaron Warren | "The Unwanted Women of Surrey" | Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling | |
| Short Fiction | Debbie Cowens | "Caterpillars" | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror edited by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray | |
| Edited Publication | Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray, editors | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | Paper Road Press | |
| Collected Works | Jo Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and other stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen & Unwin |
| Novella/Novelette | Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) | |
| Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "The Wisdom of Ants" | Clarkesworld 75 | |
| Collected Work | Kaaron Warren, edited by Alisa Krasnostein | Through Splintered Walls | Twelfth Planet Press | |
Non-fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Kristin Weidenbach, illus. Timothy Ide | Tom the Outback Mailman | Lothian Children's Books, Hachette Australia |
| Davitt Award | True crime | Pamela Burton | The Waterlow Killings | Melbourne University Publishing |
| National Biography Award | Peter Fitzpatrick | The Two Frank Thrings | Monash University Publishing | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | George Megalogenis | The Australian Moment | Penguin Books |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Gideon Haigh | The Office: A Hard Working History | Miegunyah |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Janet Butler | Kitty's War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton | University of Queensland Press |
| Community and Regional History | Patti Miller | The Mind of a Thief | University of Queensland Press | |
| General History | Saliha Belmessous | Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in the French and British Colonies, 1541–1954 | Oxford University Press | |
| Young People's | Jackie French | Pennies for Hitler | HarperCollins | |
| Queensland Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | University of Queensland Press |
| History | Jane Lydon | The Flash of Recognition | New South Books | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | No award | ||
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Non-fiction | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | University of Queensland Press |
| Western Australian history | Margaret Simons | Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man | Penguin Books | |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Ali Cobby‐Eckermann | Ruby Moonlight | Magabala Books |
| Queensland Literary Awards | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully | W. W. Norton |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | No award | ||
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Paul Hetherington | Six Different Windows | UWA Publishing |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Play | Reg Cribb | The Damned | The Yellow Agency |
| Script | Louise Fox | Dead Europe | See Saw Films; Porchlight Films | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Chris Summers | King Artur | |
| Fellowship | Angela Betzien |
Deaths
- 23 May – Hazel Hawke, memoirist (born 1929)[15]
- 16 July – Christopher Koch, novelist (born 1932)
- 5 September – Elisabeth Wynhausen, Dutch-born journalist and author (born 1946)
- 11 September – Keith Dunstan, journalist and author (born 1925)[16]
- 9 October – Mark "Chopper" Read, writer (born 1954)
- 16 November – Graham Stone, bibliographer (born 1926)[17][18]
See also
References
- ↑ Sydney Review of Books
- ↑ Introducing the Sydney Review of Books
- ↑ Stella Prize Longlist Announced
- ↑ All Female Shortlist for the Miles Franklin
- ↑ "N.A. Sulway’s Acceptance Speech for Rupetta "
- ↑ Harrowell, Miranda (August 2014). "Farewell to an iconic collection" (PDF). IBBY Australia Newsletter. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ↑ ""Judith Beveridge Honoured with the Christopher Brennan Award"". Giromondo Publishing, 22 April 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ↑ Susan Wyndham (9 November 2013). "Louis Nowra wins $23,000 Patrick White Literary Award". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ↑ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ↑ ""The Stella Prize — 2013"". The Stella prize. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ↑ "Michelle de Kretser wins Miles Franklin literary award". the Guardian. 19 June 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ↑ ""Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Shortlist and winners: 2021-2008"". Creative Australia. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ↑ "Winners announced for 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards" (PDF) (Press release). State Library of New South Wales. 19 May 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- ↑ ""2013 Winners (Queensland Literary Awards)"". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ↑ "Hazel Hawke (1929-2013)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ↑ "Keith Dunstan (1946-2013)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ↑ "A life evolved around science fiction". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ↑ "Graham Stone (1926-2013)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
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