2019 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.

See also: 2018 in Australian literature, 2019 in Australia, and 2020 in Australian literature

Major publications
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Literary fiction

Short stories
  • Josephine Rowe, Here Until August

Children's and young adult fiction
  • Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float
  • Will Kostakis, Monuments
  • Meg McKinlay, Catch a Falling Star
  • Bruce Pascoe, Young Dark Emu
  • Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys
  • Vikki Wakefield, This is How We Change the Ending

Crime

Poetry

Non-fiction
  • Jane Caro, Accidental Feminists
  • Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors), Growing Up African in Australia
  • Stan Grant
    • Australia Day
    • On Identity
  • Nicholas Hasluck, Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir
  • Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do
  • Jacqueline Kent, Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook
  • Caro Llewellyn, Diving into Glass
  • Bianca Nogrady (editor), The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
  • Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement
Award Author
Patrick White Award Jordie Albiston[1]

Fiction

National
Award Category Author Title Publisher
Miles Franklin Award[2] Melissa Lucashenko Too Much Lip University of Queensland Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[3] Fiction Gail Jones The Death of Noah Glass Text Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Fiction Michelle de Kretser The Life to Come Allen & Unwin[4]
Queensland Literary Awards[5] Fiction Carrie Tiffany Exploded View Text Publishing
Stella Prize[6] Vicki Laveau-Harvie The Erratics Fourth Estate
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7] Fiction Elise Valmorbida The Madonna of the Mountains Faber & Faber

Children and Young Adult

National
Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[8] 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[9] James Moloney
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] 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[7] Young Adult Fiction Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina Catching Teller Crow Allen & Unwin

Crime and Mystery

National
Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[10] Novel Dervla McTiernan The Ruin Penguin Books
Ned Kelly Award[11] Novel Jane Harper The Lost Man McMillan Australia
First novel Dervla McTiernan The Ruin HarperCollins

Science Fiction
Award Category Author Title Publisher
Ditmar Award[12] 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

Non-Fiction
Award Category Author Title Publisher
National Biography Award[13] Biography Behrouz Boochani No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Picador Australia
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] 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[14] 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[5] Non-Fiction Mary Hoban An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold Scribe
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7] Non-Fiction Behrouz Boochani No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Picador Australia

Poetry
Award Author Title Publisher
Anne Elder Award[15] Eunice Andrada Flood Damages Giramondo
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] Judith Bishop Interval University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[7] Kate Lilley Tilt Vagabond Press

Drama
Award Category Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[4] Script Benjamin Gilmour Jirga Felix Media Pty Ltd
Play Kendall Feaver The Almighty Sometimes Griffin Theatre

Deaths
    gollark: Isn't it wildly volatile?
    gollark: Well, as they say, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
    gollark: The expected value is positive but tiny for them, so it's worse than just giving them money or a gift they actually want, christmas spirit be 🐝sed.
    gollark: You might as well just give them the money you'd pay. This is better for them.
    gollark: You're spending money on getting *other people* negative expected value.

    See also

    References
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    2. Bookshelf, ABC Arts Kate Evans for RN's The (30 July 2019). "Miles Franklin awarded to Indigenous author for 'novel of celebratory defiance'". ABC News. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
    3. "Winners announced for PM's Literary Awards 2019". Books+Publishing. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
    4. Jefferson, Dee, Arts editor (29 April 2019). "'I wanted to help change the conversation': History of Aboriginal archaeology wins literary prize". ABC News. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
    5. Qian, Jinghua. "Winners announced for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
    6. The 2019 Stella Prize. Retrieved 9 April 2019
    7. "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
    8. "CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
    9. "Moloney wins 2019 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
    10. "'The Ruin' wins best novel at 2019 Davitt Awards". Books+Publishing. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
    11. Steger, Jason (6 September 2019). "Women crime writers clean up at the Ned Kelly awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
    12. Newcombe, Ion (11 June 2019). "Ditmar Award Winners 2019". The Australian Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
    13. "'Impassioned letter' from Manus Island wins 2019 National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
    14. Guardian staff (30 August 2019). "Guardian Australia's The Killing Times wins prize in NSW premier's history awards". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
    15. "Andrada wins Anne Elder Award 2018 for 'Flood Damages'". Books+Publishing. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
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