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2018 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.

Major publications edit

Literary fiction edit

Children's and Young Adult fiction edit

Crime and Mystery edit

Science Fiction and Fantasy edit

Poetry edit

Drama edit

Biographies and memoirs edit

Non-fiction edit

Awards and honours edit

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

Lifetime achievement edit

Award Author
Melbourne Prize for Literature[54] Alison Lester
Patrick White Award[55] Samuel Wagan Watson

Literary edit

Award Author Title Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[56] Shastra Deo The Agonist University of Queensland Press
Colin Roderick Award[57] Jock Serong On the Java Ridge Text Publishing
Nita Kibble Literary Award[58] Fiona McFarlane The High Places Hodder and Stoughton
Stella Prize[59] Alexis Wright Tracker Giramondo
Victorian Prize for Literature[60] Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life
in Death, Decay & Disaster 		Text Publishing

Fiction edit

International edit

Award Author Title Publisher
Staunch Book Prize[61] Jock Serong On the Java Ridge Text Publishing

National edit

Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[62] Eva Hornung The Last Garden Text Publishing
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[63] Emily O'Grady The Yellow House Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[64] Libby Angel The Trapeze Act Text Publishing
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[65] Sofie Laguna The Choke Allen & Unwin
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[65] Mark Brandi Wimmera Hachette Australia
Miles Franklin Award[66][67] Michelle de Kretser The Life to Come Allen & Unwin
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[68] Gerald Murnane Border Districts Giramondo
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[69] Bram Presser The Book of Dirt Text Publishing
Queensland Literary Awards[70] Kim Scott Taboo Pan Macmillan
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[71] Melanie Cheng Australia Day Text Publishing

Children and Young Adult edit

National edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[72] Older Readers Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell Take Three Girls Pan Macmillan
Younger Readers Bren MacDibble How to Bee Allen & Unwin
Picture Book Gwyn Perkins A 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 & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[69] Children's Bren MacDibble How to Bee Allen & Unwin
Young People's Zana Fraillon The Ones That Disappeared Lothian
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[71] Young Adult Fiction Demet Divaroren Living on Hope Street Allen & Unwin

Crime and Mystery edit

National edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[73] 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 Macmillan
Ned Kelly Award[74] 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 Death
of Anna-Jane Cheney 		Random House
Lifetime achievement Garry Disher

Science fiction edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Ditmar Award[75] 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)

Non-Fiction edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
National Biography Award[76] Biography Judith Brett The Enigmatic Mr Deakin Text Publishing
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[65] 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
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[69] Non-Fiction Paul Ham Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth William Heinemann Australia
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[77] 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[70] Non-Fiction Alexis Wright Tracker Giramondo Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[71] Non-fiction Sarah Krasnostein The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster Text Publishing

Poetry edit

Award Author Title Publisher
Anne Elder Award[78] Rico Craig Bone Ink Guillotine Press
Mary Gilmore Award[79] Quinn Eades Rallying UWA Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[69] Bella Li Argosy Vagabond Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[71] Bella Li Argosy Vagabond Press

Drama edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[69] Script (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 Company

Deaths edit

See also edit

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