2014 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014.
Events
- The State Library of Queensland takes over the running the Queensland Literary Awards which had previously been run by a group of volunteers.[1]
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies
- Emily Bitto – The Strays
- Peter Carey – Amnesia
- Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles
- Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys
- Janette Turner Hospital – The Claimant
- Wendy James – The Lost Girls
- Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep
- Joan London – The Golden Age
- Suzanne McCourt – The Lost Child
- Gerald Murnane – A Million Windows
- Omar Musa – Here Come the Dogs
- Favel Parrett – When the Night Comes
- Christine Piper – After Darkness
- Craig Sherborne – Tree Palace
- Inga Simpson – Nest
- Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect
- Rohan Wilson – To Name Those Lost
Short stories
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Trace Balla – Rivertime
- Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
- Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures
- Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli (illustrated by Annie White)
- Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse
- Darren Groth – Are You Seeing Me?
- Rebecca James – Cooper Batholomew is Dead
- Ambelin Kwaymullina – The Lost Girl
- Alison Lester – Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach
- Rebecca Lim – The Astrologer's Daughter
- Doug MacLeod – Tigers on the Beach
- John Marsden – South of Darkness
- Alice Pung – Laurinda
- Diana Sweeney – The Minnow
- Claire Zorn – The Protected
Crime
- Honey Brown – Through the Cracks
- Candice Fox – Eden
- Katherine Howell – Deserving Death
- Barry Maitland – Crucifixion Creek
- P. M. Newton – Beams Falling
- Malla Nunn – Present Darkness
- Michael Rowbotham – Life or Death
- Jock Serong – Quota
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Trudi Canavan – Thief's Magic[2]
- Kate Forsyth – Wolves of the Witchwood[3]
- Patrick Holland – Navigatio[4]
- Juliet Marillier – The Cracks in the Kingdom[5]
- Garth Nix – Clariel
- Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China
- John A. Scott – N[6]
Drama
- Michael Gow – Once in Royal David's City
- Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home
Poetry
- Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems[7]
- Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford (edited by Oliver Dennis)[8]
- Gwen Harwood – The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood[9]
- John Kinsella – Sack[10]
- Geoffrey Lehmann – Poems 1957–2013[11]
- Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
- David Malouf – Earth Hour[12]
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe – My Feet are Hungry[13]
Biographies
- Bob Brown – Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action
- Phil Butterss – An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis
- Matthew Condon – Jacks and Jokers
- Robert Dessaix – What Days Are For
- Rafael Epstein – Prisoner X
- Julia Gillard – My Story
- Dino Hodge – Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography
- John Howard – The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia
- Madonna King – Hockey : Not your average Joe
- Elizabeth Morrison – David Syme : Man of the Age
- Mandy Sayer – The Poet's Wife
- David Walsh – A Bone of Fact
Non-fiction
- Sophie Cunningham – Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy[14]
- Paul Kelly – Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation[15]
- Bruce Pascoe – Dark Emu
- Sam Vincent – Blood & Guts
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Award | Author |
---|---|
Christopher Brennan Award[16] | Alan Wearne |
Patrick White Award[17] | Brian Castro |
Literary
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
ALS Gold Medal[18] | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Giramondo Publishing |
Colin Roderick Award[19] | Michael Wilding | Wild Bleak Bohemia : Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall - A Documentary |
Australian Scholarly |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[20] | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Random House |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[21] | Kristina Olsson | Boy Lost: A Family Memoir | University of Queensland Press |
Stella Prize[22] | Clare Wright | The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka | Text Publishing |
Victorian Prize for Literature[23] | Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | Giramondo Publishing |
Fiction
International
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Man Booker Prize[24] | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Random House |
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Fiona Wood | Wildlife | Pan MacMillan |
Younger Readers | Catherine Jinks | City of Orphans: A Very Unusual Pursuit | Allen & Unwin | |
Picture Book | Freya Blackwood, text Irema Kobald | My Two Blankets | Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont | |
Early Childhood | Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood | Go to Sleep, Jessie! | Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[20] | Children's & YA | Alison Lester | Kissed by the Moon | Penguin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[30] | Children's | Katrina Nannestad | The Girl Who Brought Mischief | HarperCollins |
Young People's | AJ Betts | Zac and Mia | Text Publishing | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[23] | Young Adult Fiction | Barry Jonsberg | My Life as an Alphabet | Allen and Unwin |
Crime and Mystery
National
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award[31] | Novel | Honey Brown | Dark Horse | Penguin Books |
Young Adult novel | Karen Foxlee | The Midnight Dress | University of Queensland Press | |
Children's novel | Jen Storer | Spooked! | HarperCollins | |
True crime | Anna Krien | Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport | Black Inc | |
Debut novel | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Pan Macmillan | |
Readers' choice | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Pan Macmillan | |
Ned Kelly Award[32] | Novel | Adrian McKinty | In The Morning I'll Be Gone | Allen and Unwin |
First novel | Candice Fox | Hades | Random House, Australia | |
True crime | John Saffran | Murder in Mississippi | Hamish Hamilton | |
Lifetime achievement | Not awarded |
Science fiction
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Marianne de Pierres | Peacemaker | Angry Robot |
Sf Short Story | Thoraiya Dye | "Wine, Women, and Stars" | Analog | |
Fantasy Novel | Juliet Marillier | Dreamer's Pool | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
Fantasy Short Story | Angela Slatter | "St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls" | Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3 | |
Horror Novel | Justine Larbalestier | Razorhurst | Allen and Unwin | |
Horror Short Story | Angela Slatter | "Home and Hearth" | Spectral Press (Home and Hearth) | |
Young Adult Novel | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Cracks in the Kingdom | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
Young Adult Short Story | Dirk Flinthart | "Vanilla" | Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope) | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Robert Hood | Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead | Wildside Press |
Best Novella or Novelette | Kirstyn McDermott | "The Home for Broken Dolls" | Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press) | |
Best Short Story | Cat Sparks | "Scarp" | The Bride Price (Ticonderoga Publications) |
Poetry
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[25] | Lisa Jacobson | The Sunlit Zone | 5 Islands Press |
Anne Elder Award[33] | Vanessa Page | Confessional Box | Walleah Press |
Mary Gilmore Prize[34] | Rose Lucas | Even in the Dark | UWA Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[30] | Fiona Hile | Novelties | Hunter |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[23] | Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | Giramondo Publishing |
Drama
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[30] | Script | Kris Mrksa | Devil's Dust | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Debra Thomas | The Man's Bitch | Sydney Theatre Company |
Fellowship | Kate Mulvany | |||
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[23] | Drama | Patricia Cornelius | Savages | Playlab |
Non-Fiction
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[25] | Non-Fiction | Kate Richards | Madness: A Memoir | Penguin Books |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[20] | Non-Fiction | David Hunt | Girt | Black Inc. |
National Biography Award[35] | Biography | Alison Alexander | The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[30] | Non-Fiction | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir | University of Queensland Press |
Michael Fullilove | Rendezvous with Destiny | Penguin Books | ||
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Joan Beaumont | Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War | Allen & Unwin |
Community and Regional History | Ian Hoskins | Coast: A History of the New South Wales Edge | NewSouth | |
General History | John Gascoigne | Encountering the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment | Cambridge University Press | |
Young People's | Nadia Wheatley, illustrated by Ken Searle | Australians All | Allen & Unwin | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Paul Ham | 1914: The Year the World Ended | Random House Australia |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[23] | Non-fiction | Henry Reynolds | Forgotten War | NewSouth |
Deaths
- 14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist (born 1935)[36]
- 10 April – Doris Pilkington Garimara, novelist (born c.1937)
- 17 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (born 1957)
- 19 September – Rod Milgate, playwright and painter (born 1934)[37]
- 8 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (born 1938)[38]
- 3 November – Michael Fitzgerald Page, writer and publisher (born 1922)
See also
- 2014 in Australia
- 2014 in literature
- 2014 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
- List of Australian literary awards
References
- ^ a b ""Queensland Literary Awards - History of the Award"". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan". ISFDB. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "Wolves of the Witchwood by". ISFDB. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "Navigatio by Patrick Holland". ISFDB. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "The Cracks in the Kingdom by". ISFDB. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "N by John A. Scott". Austlit. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "Devadatta's Poems by Judith Beveridge". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford edited by Oliver Dennis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood by Gwen Harwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Sack by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Poems 1957–2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Earth Hour by David Malouf". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "My Feet are Hungry by Chris Wallace-Crabbe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy by Sophie Cunningham". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation by Paul Kelly". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ ""National Literary Awards Results 2014"" (PDF). Fellowship of Australian Writers. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Patrick White Literary Award winner Brian Castro recalls his encounter with the grumpy neighbour, The Age, November 7, 2014
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2014"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ ""The Stella Prize — 2014"". The Stella Prize. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2014". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ Brown, Mark (14 October 2014). "Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker prize with 'timeless depiction of war'". The Guardian.
- ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
- ^ "Piper wins Vogel for 'After Darkness'". Books+Publishing. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Adrian Raschella (26 June 2014). "Miles Franklin Literary Award: Author Evie Wyld wins for her book All The Birds Singing". ABC News. ABC News, 27 June 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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- ^ a b c d e "'Questions of Travel' wins Book of the Year at NSW Premier's Literary Awards". Books+Publishing. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ ""Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing"". The NewDaily. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "2014 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award". Austlit. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Begley, Patrick (4 August 2014). "Alison Alexander wins National Biography Award for The Ambitions of Jane Franklin". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
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- ^ "Rodney Milgate". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ^ "Morris Lurie". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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