2013 in Australian literature
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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
- 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 | Judith Beveridge |
| Patrick White Award | Louis Nowra |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Allen & Unwin |
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 January – Graham Stone, bibliographer (born 1926)
- 23 May – Hazel Hawke, memoirist (born 1929)
- 16 July – Christopher Koch, novelist (born 1932)
- 5 September – Elisabeth Wynhausen, Dutch-born journalist and author (born 1946)
- 9 October – Mark "Chopper" Read, writer (born 1954)
See also
- Literature
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of Australian literary awards
- 2013 in Australia
- 2013 in literature
- 2013 in poetry
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.
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