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2010 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 1900 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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[4]
- Carmel Bird – Child of the Twilight[5]
- Ashley Hay – The Body in the Clouds[6]
- Anita Heiss – Manhattan Dreaming[7]
- Toni Jordan – Fall Girl[8]
- Amanda Lohrey – Reading Madame Bovary (short story collection)
- Roger McDonald – When Colts Ran
- Fiona McGregor – Indelible Ink
- Monica McInerney – At Home with the Templetons[9]
- D.B.C. Pierre – Lights Out in Wonderland[10]
- Jessica Rudd – Campaign Ruby[11]
- Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
- Chris Womersley – Bereft
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Alexandra Adornetto – Halo[12]
- Mem Fox – Let's Count Goats!
- Sonya Hartnett – The Midnight Zoo
- Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice[13]
- Alison Lester – Noni the Pony
- Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher[14]
- Melina Marchetta – The Piper's Son[15]
- Garth Nix – Lord Sunday
- Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Trudi Canavan – The Ambassador's Mission[16]
- Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate[17]
- Greg Egan – Zendegi
- Fiona McIntosh – King's Wrath[18]
- Sean McMullen – "Eight Miles"
- Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters[19]
- Scott Westerfeld – Behemoth[20]
- Sean Williams
Crime and Mystery
- Lenny Bartulin – The Black Russian[21]
- John Birmingham – After America
- Honey Brown – The Good Daughter
- Peter Corris – Torn Apart[22]
- Garry Disher – Wyatt
- Kathryn Fox – Death Mask[23]
- Kerry Greenwood – Dead Man's Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery[24]
- Katherine Howell – Cold Justice[25]
- Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road[26]
- Colleen McCullough – Naked Cruelty[27]
- Geoff McGeachin – The Diggers Rest Hotel
- Tara Moss – The Blood Countess[28]
- P. M. Newton – The Old School[29]
- Malla Nunn – Let the Dead Lie[30]
- Leigh Redhead – Thrill City[31]
- Michael Robotham – Bleed for Me[32]
- Angela Savage – The Half-Child[33]
- David Whish-Wilson – Line of Sight[34]
Poetry
- Christopher Kelen – The Whole Forest Dancing: Poems on Four Legs in the Morning[35]
- Les Murray – Taller When Prone[36]
- Dorothy Porter – Love Poems[37]
- Peter Porter – The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems[38]
- Thomas Shapcott – Parts of Us[39]
- John Tranter – Starlight: 150 Poems[40]
- Mark Tredinnick – Fire Diary[41]
Biography
- Blanche d'Alpuget – Hawke: The Prime Minister[42]
- Jeff Apter – Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers[43]
- Jim Davidson – A Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock[44]
- Sheila Fitzpatrick – My Father's Daughter
- Malcolm Fraser & Margaret Simons – Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs[45]
- Rob Mundle – Bligh: Master Mariner[46]
- Anne Pender – One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries[47]
- Mark Logue & Peter Conradi – The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy[48]
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Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
Literary
Fiction
International
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Crime and Mystery
National
Science fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-Fiction
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Deaths
- 15 March — Patricia Wrightson, author (born 1921)[74]
- 23 April — Peter Porter, author (born 1929)[75]
- 29 May — Randolph Stow, author (died in England)(born 1935)[76]
- 9 July — Jessica Anderson, author (born 1916)[77]
- 19 July — Jon Cleary, author (born 1917)[78]
- 6 September — John McKellar, playwright (born 1930)[79]
- 8 September — Donald Horne, author (born 1921)[80]
- 6 October — David Rowbotham, author (born 1924)[81]
- 14 November — Bobbi Sykes, poet and author (born 1943)[82]
- 14 December — Ruth Park, author (born 1917)[83]
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See also
References
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