This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.
Major publications
Literary fiction Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Lebs Robbie Arnott – Flames Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe Gregory Day – A Sand Archive Ceridwen Dovey – In the Garden of the Fugitives Rodney Hall – A Stolen Season Gail Jones – The Death of Noah Glass Eleanor Limprecht – The Passengers Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip Liane Moriarty – Nine Perfect Strangers Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz Kristina Olsson – Shell Ryan O'Neill – The Drover's Wives Tracy Sorensen – The Lucky Galah Elise Valmorbida – The Madonna of the Mountains Tim Winton – The Shepherd's Hut Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay
Children's and Young Adult fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke – Wide Big World, illustrated by Isobel Knowles Mem Fox – Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again, illustrated by Judy Horacek Andy Griffiths – The 104-Storey Treehouse Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekial Kwaymullina – Catching Teller Crow Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave Shaun Tan Cicada Tales from the Inner City Lili Wilkinson – After the Lights Go Out
Crime and Mystery
Garry Disher – Kill Shot Candice Fox – Redemption Point Kerry Greenwood – The Spotted Dog Chris Hammer – Scrublands Jane Harper – The Lost Man Dervla McTiernan – The Rúin Kate Morton – The Clockmaker's Daughter Michael Robotham – The Other Wife Sue Williams – Live and Let Fry
Science Fiction and Fantasy Alan Baxter Hidden City Devouring Dark Kylie Chan – Scales of Empire Traci Harding – This Present Past Sam Hawke – City of Lies Jennifer Mills – Dyschronia Kaaron Warren – Tide of Stone
Poetry Jordie Albiston – Warlines Judith Beveridge – Sun Music: New and Selected Poems Ken Bolton – Starting at Basheer's Sarah Day – Towards Light & Other Poems Brook Emery ed. — Naming the Particulars"Naming the particulars / edited by Brook Emery; (introduction by) Brook Emery", National Library of Australia. Paul Hetherington – Moonlight on Oleander Bella Li – Lost Lake John Mateer – João Tim Metcalf – The Underwritten Plain Tracy Ryan – The Water Bearer
Drama Alana Valentine – The Sugar House David Williamson – Nearer the Gods
Biographies and memoirs Peter FitzSimons – Monash's Masterpiece Jacqui Lambie – Rebel with a Cause: You can't keep a bloody Lambie down — my story from soldier to senator and beyond Vicki Laveau-Harvie – The Erratics Bri Lee – Eggshell Skull Anne Summers – Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir Gillian Triggs – Speaking Up Nadia Wheatley – Her Mother's Daughter
Non-fiction Cynthia Banham – A Certain Light Steve Biddulph – Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century: How To Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind And Strong Men Behrouz Boochani – No Friend But the Mountains Stephen Gapps – The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817 Richard Glover – The Land Before Avocado Billy Griffiths – Deep Time Dreaming Anita Heiss (editor) – Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia Chloe Hooper – The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire Thomas Keneally – Australians: A Short History Meredith Lake – The Bible in Australia: A cultural history Michael C. Madden – The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers Leigh Sales – Any Ordinary Day Maria Tumarkin – Axiomatic
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Award Author Melbourne Prize for Literature Alison Lester Mona Brand Award Patricia Cornelius Patrick White Award Samuel Wagan Watson
Literary
Award Author Title Publisher ABIA Book of the Year Jessica Townsend Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Lothian ALS Gold Medal Shastra Deo The Agonist University of Queensland Press Colin Roderick Award Jock Serong On the Java Ridge Text Publishing Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Jessica Townsend Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Lothian Nita Kibble Literary Award Fiona McFarlane The High Places Hodder and Stoughton Stella PrizeThe 2018 Stella Prize . Retrieved 13 April 2018 Alexis Wright Tracker Giramondo Victorian Prize for Literature Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's ExtraordinaryLife in Death, Decay & Disaster Text Publishing
Fiction
International
Award Author Title Publisher Staunch Book Prize Jock Serong On the Java Ridge Text Publishing
National
Award Author Title Publisher ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Michael Robotham The Secrets She Keeps Hachette Australia ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Sarah Schmidt See What I Have Done Hachette Australia Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Eva Hornung The Last Garden Text Publishing The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Emily O'Grady The Yellow House Allen & Unwin Barbara Jefferis Award Libby Angel The Trapeze Act Text Publishing Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction Sofie Laguna The Choke Allen & Unwin Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction Mark Brandi Wimmera Hachette Australia Miles Franklin Award Michelle de Kretser The Life to Come Allen & Unwin Prime Minister's Literary Awards Gerald Murnane Border Districts Giramondo New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Bram Presser The Book of Dirt Text Publishing Queensland Literary Awards Kim Scott Taboo Pan Macmillan Victorian Premier's Literary Award Melanie Cheng Australia Day Text Publishing Voss Literary Prize Bram Presser The Book of Dirt Text Publishing
Children and Young Adult National
Award Category Author Title PublisherAustralian Book Industry Awards Older Children Danielle Binks (editor) Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Younger Children Jessica Townsend Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Lothian Picture Book Zoë Foster Blake No One Likes a Fart Viking BooksChildren's Book of the Year Award Older Readers Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone HowellTake Three GirlsPan Macmillan Younger Readers Bren MacDibbleHow to BeeAllen & Unwin Picture Book Gwyn PerkinsA Walk in the Bush Affirm Press Early Childhood Michael Gerard Bauer; Chrissie Krebs (illustrator) Rodney Loses It! Omnibus Books Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Idan Ben-Barak, illus. Julian Frost Do Not Lick This Book Allen & UnwinIndie Book Awards Book of the Year Children's Jessica Townsend Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Lothian Young Adult Mark Smith Wilder Country Text PublishingNew South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Children's Bren MacDibble How to Bee Allen & Unwin Young People's Zana Fraillon The Ones That Disappeared Lothian Victorian Premier's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction Demet Divaroren Living on Hope Street Allen & Unwin
Crime and Mystery
National
Award Category Author Title PublisherDavitt Award Novel Emma Viskic And Fire Came Down Echo Books Young adult novel Vikki Wakefield Ballad for a Mad Girl Text Publishing Children's novel Allison Rushby The Turnkey Walker Books True crime Gabriella Coslovich Whitely on Trial Melbourne University Press Debut novel Sarah Bailey The Dark Lake Allen & Unwin Readers' choice Jane Harper Force of Nature Pan MacmillanNed Kelly Award Novel Sulari Gentill Crossing the Lines Pantera First novel Sarah Bailey The Dark Lake Allen & Unwin True crime Graham Archer Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Deathof Anna-Jane Cheney Random House Lifetime achievement Garry Disher
Science fiction
Award Category Author Title PublisherDitmar Award Novel Thoraiya Dyer Crossroads of Canopy Tor Best Novella or Novelette Tansy Rayner Roberts "Girl Reporter" Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers Publishing) Best Short Story Janeen Webb "A Pearl Beyond Price" Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1(IFWG Publishing Australia)
Poetry
Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Pam Brown Missing Up Vagabond Press Anne Elder Award Rico Craig Bone Ink Guillotine PressMary Gilmore Award Quinn Eades Rallying UWA PublishingPrime Minister's Literary Awards Brian Castro Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria Giramondo Publishing New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Bella Li Argosy Vagabond Press Queensland Literary Awards Michael Farrell I Love Poetry Giramondo Publishing Victorian Premier's Literary Award Bella Li Argosy Vagabond Press
Drama
Award Category Author Title PublisherNew South Wales Premier's Literary AwardsScript (joint winners) Amanda Blue and Jacob Hickey Deep Water: The Real Story Blackfella Films Jane Campion and Gerard Lee Birthday, Top of the Lake: China Girl, Series 2 Episode 4 See Saw Films Play Nakkiah Lui Black is the New White Sydney Theatre CompanyPatrick White Playwrights' Award Award Mark Rogers Superheroes Griffin Theatre Company Fellowship Nakkiah Lui
Non-Fiction
Award Category Author Title PublisherAustralian Book Industry Awards General Non-Fiction Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner Text Publishing Biography Jimmy Barnes Working Class Man HarperCollins Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Non-Fiction Tim Winton The Boy Behind the Curtain Penguin BooksIndie Book Awards Book of the Year Non-Fiction Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason Saga Land HarperCollins Illustrated Non-Fiction Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants Thames & hudson National Biography AwardBiographyJudith BrettThe Enigmatic Mr DeakinText Publishing New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-Fiction Paul Ham Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth William Heinemann AustraliaNew South Wales Premier's History Awards Australian History Christina Twomey The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia NewSouth Publishing Community and Regional History Paul Irish Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney NewSouth Publishing General History Sean Scalmer On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia Temple University Press Queensland Literary Awards Non-Fiction Alexis Wright Tracker Giramondo Publishing Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-fiction The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster Text Publishing
Deaths 6 March – Peter Nicholls, writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (born 1939)Mort de Peter Nicholls, éditeur de l'Encyclopédie de la science-fiction 8 March – Peter Temple, author of Jack Irish series (born 1946) 3 April – Noela Young, children's book illustrator and writer (born 1930) 14 April – Frank Bren, Australian actor and playwright (born 1943) 16 April – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer (born 1941) 1 June – Jill Ker Conway, academic and memoir writer, author of The Road from Coorain (born 1934) 2 June – Tony Morphett, screenwriter and novelist (born 1938) 30 August – Peter Corris, crime novelist (born 1942) 31 August – Ian Jones author and television writer and director (born 1931) 12 September – Albert Ullin , German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore, The Little Bookroom (born 1930) 16 September – John Molony, historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University (born 1927) 6 October – James Cowan, author (born 1942) 21 October – Eleanor Witcombe, screenwriter and playwright (born 1923) 22 October Anne Fairbairn, poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture (born 1928) Rose Zwi, novelist (born 1928) 22 November – Judith Rodriguez, poet and academic (born 1936)
See also 2018 in Australia 2018 in literature 2018 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature
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