2010 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2010.
Events
- 26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours List.[1]
- February – The "Australian Book Review" magazine conducted a poll of its readers and announces that Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is Australia's favourite novel.[2]
- 22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel Truth[3] becoming the first crime novel to do so.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Jon Bauer – Rocks in the Belly
- Carmel Bird – Child of the Twilight
- Ashley Hay – The Body in the Clouds
- Anita Heiss – Manhattan Dreaming
- Toni Jordan – Fall Girl
- Amanda Lohrey – Reading Madame Bovary (short story collection)
- Roger McDonald – When Colts Ran
- Fiona McGregor – Indelible Ink
- Monica McInerney – At Home with the Templetons
- D.B.C. Pierre – Lights Out in Wonderland
- Jessica Rudd – Campaign Ruby
- Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
- Chris Womersley – Bereft
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Alexandra Adornetto – Halo
- Mem Fox – Let's Count Goats!
- Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice
- Alison Lester – Noni the Pony
- Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher
- Melina Marchetta – The Piper's Son
- Garth Nix – Lord Sunday
- Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Trudi Canavan – The Ambassador's Mission
- Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate
- Greg Egan – Zendegi
- Fiona McIntosh – King's Wrath
- Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters
- Scott Westerfeld – Behemoth
- Sean Williams – The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
Crime and Mystery
- John Birmingham – After America
- Honey Brown – The Good Daughter
- Peter Corris – Torn Apart
- Garry Disher – Wyatt
- Kathryn Fox – Death Mask
- Kerry Greenwood – Dead Man's Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
- Katherine Howell – Cold Justice
- Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road
- Colleen McCullough – Naked Cruelty
- Geoff McGeachin – The Diggers Rest Hotel
- Tara Moss – The Blood Countess
- Malla Nunn – Let the Dead Men Lie
- Leigh Redhead – Thrill City
- Michael Robotham – Bleed for Me
- Angela Savage – The Half-Child
- David Whish-Wilson – Line of Sight
Poetry
- Christopher Kelen – The Whole Forest Dancing: Poems on Four Legs in the Morning
- Les Murray – Taller When Prone
- Dorothy Porter – Love Poems
- Peter Porter – The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems
- Thomas Shapcott – Parts of Us
- John Tranter – Starlight: 150 Poems
- Mark Tredinnick – Fire Diary
Biography
- Blanche d'Alpuget – Hawke: The Prime Minister
- Jeff Apter – Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers
- Jim Davidson – A Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock
- Malcolm Fraser & Margaret Simons – Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
- Rob Mundle – Bligh: Master Mariner
- Anne Pender – One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries
- Mark Logue & Peter Conradi – The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[4] | Peter Steele |
| Patrick White Award[5] | David Foster |
Fiction
International
| Award | Region | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize | SE Asia and South Pacific | Best First Book | Glenda Guest | Siddon Rock | Vintage Australia |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Fiction | Alex Miller | Lovesong | Allen & Unwin |
| ALS Gold Medal | David Malouf | Ransom | Knopf Australia | |
| Barbara Jefferis Award | Kristina Olsson | The China Garden | University of Queensland Press | |
| Miles Franklin Award[6] | Peter Temple | Truth | Text Publishing | |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award | Shirley Walker | The Ghost at the Wedding | Viking | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[7] | Fiction | Eva Hornung | Dog Boy | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | J.M. Coetzee | Summertime | Harvill Secker |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | J.M. Coetzee | Summertime | Harvill Secker |
| South Australian Premier's Awards | Fiction | David Malouf | Ransom | Knopf Australia |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Fiction | Peter Temple | Truth | Text Publishing |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Fiction | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Picador |
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | David Metzenthen | Jarvis 24 | Penguin Group |
| Younger Readers | Odo Hirsch | Darius Bell and the Glitter Pond | Allen & Unwin | |
| Picture Book | Gregory Rogers | The Hero of Little Street | Allen & Unwin | |
| Early Childhood | Lisa Shanahan, illus. Emma Quay | Bear & Chook By the Sea | Lothian | |
| Davitt Award | Young Adult Novel | Justine Larbalestier | Liar | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Allan Baillie | Krakatoa Lighthouse | Penguin Books Australia |
| Young People's | Pamela Rushby | When the Hipchicks Went to War | Hachette | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Sally Murphy | Toppling | Walker Books |
| Young Adult | Richard Yaxley | Drink the Air | Richard Yaxley | |
| South Australian Premier's Awards | Children's | Shaun Tan | Tales from Outer Suburbia | Allen and Unwin |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | Kirsty Eagar | Raw Blue | Penguin Group |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Children's | Sally Murphy | Toppling | Walker Books |
| Writing for Young Adults | Scott Gardner | Happy as Larry | Allen and Unwin | |
| James Roy | Anonymity Jones | Woolshed Press |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award | Novel | Marianne Delacourt | Sharp Shooter | Arena |
| Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Garry Disher | Wyatt | Text Publishing |
| First novel | Mark Dapin | King of the Cross | Pan Macmillan |
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Marianne de Pierres | Transformation Space | Orbit Books |
| SF Short Story | K.J. Bishop | "The House of a Mouse" | Subterrannean Online | |
| Fantasy Novel | Tansy Rayner Roberts | Power and Majesty | HarperVoyager | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "Yowie" | Twelfth Planet Press (Sprawl) | |
| L.L. Hannett and Angela Slatter | "The February Dragon" | Ticonderoga Publications (Scary Kisses) | ||
| Horror Novel | Kirstyn McDermott | Madigan Mine | Pan Macmillan | |
| Horror Short Story | Richard Harland | "The Fear" | Brimstone Press (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears) | |
| Australian Shadows Award | Long Fiction | Bob Franklin | Under Stones | Affirm Press |
| Edited Publication | Angela Challis & Marty Young | Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears | Brimstone Press | |
| Short Fiction | Kirstyn McDermott | "She Said" | Scenes from the Second Storey, Morrigan Books | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Kaaron Warren | Slights | Angry Robot Books |
| Novella/Novelette | Paul Haines | "Wives" | X6 (Coeur de Lion) | |
| Short Story | Cat Sparks | "Seventeen" | Masques (CSFG) | |
| Collected Work | Geoffrey Maloney ed. | Slice of Life,Paul Haines | The Mayne Press |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Non-fiction | Kate Howarth | Ten Hail Marys | Penguin Books |
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Peter Macinnis | Australian Backyard Explorer | National Library of Australia |
| Davitt Award | True crime | Ellen Connolly and Candace Sutton | Lady Killer | Allen & Unwin |
| National Biography Award | Brian Matthews | Manning Clark: A Life | Allen & Unwin | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Grace Karskens | The Colony: A History of Early Sydney | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Paul McGeough | Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit ... and the rise of Hamas | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Bain Attwood | Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History | Melbourne University Publishing |
| Community and Regional History | Pauline Curby | Randwick | Randwick Municipal Council | |
| General History | Lisa Ford | Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 | Harvard University Press | |
| Young People's | Jackie French | The Night They Stormed Eureka | HarperCollins | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Mark Tredinnick | The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir | UQP |
| History | Ian Hoskins | Sydney Harbour: A history, | NewSouth Books | |
| South Australian Premier's Awards | Non-fiction | Jill Roe | Stella Miles Franklin | Fourth Estate/HarperCollins |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Brenda Walker | Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life | Penguin Books |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Non-fiction | Jim Davidson | The Historian: W K Hancock | University of New South Wales Press |
| Western Australian history | Susanna Iuliano | Vite Italiane, Italian Lives in Western Australia | University of Western Australia Press |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Jennifer Maiden | Pirate Rain | Giramondo Publishing |
| Mary Gilmore Prize | Joanna Preston | The Summer King | Otago University Press |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Jordie Albiston | the sonnet according to 'm' | John Leonard Press |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Peter Boyle | Apocrypha | Vagabond Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Anna Kerdijk Nicholson | Possession | Five Islands Press |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Mark Tredinnick | Fire Diary | Puncher and Wattmann |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Script | Jane Campion | Bright Star | BBC Films; Screen Australia; UK Film Council; New South Wales Film and Television Office |
| Aviva Ziegler | Fairweather Man | Fury Productions | ||
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Melissa Bubnic | Beached | Currency Press |
| Fellowship | Raimondo Cortese |
Deaths
- 15 March — Patricia Wrightson, author (born 1921)[8]
- 23 April — Peter Porter, author (born 1929)[9]
- 29 May — Randolph Stow, author (born 1935)
- 9 July — Jessica Anderson, author (born 1916)[10]
- 19 July — Jon Cleary, author (born 1917)
- 8 September — Donald Horne, author (born 1921)[11]
- 6 October — David Rowbotham, author (born 1924)
- 14 November — Bobbi Sykes, poet and author (born 1943)
- 14 December — Ruth Park, author (born 1917)
See also
- 2010 in Australia
- 2010 in literature
- 2010 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
- List of Australian literary awards
References
- ^ "2010 Australia Day Honours List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Favourite Australian Novel Poll
- ^ Temple wins Miles Franklin award, ABC News, 22 June 2010.
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Literary postman delivers again, winning mentor's bequest". SMH.com.au. 13 November 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Crime writer win Miles Franklin award". www.abc.net.au. 23 June 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ ""Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Shortlist and winners: 2021-2008"". Creative Australia. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Patricia Wrightson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Peter Porter". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Jessica Anderson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Donald Horne". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
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