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2011 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2011 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011.
Events
- Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe[1]
- Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts[2]
- Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading[3]
- Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day[4]
- Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011[5]
- Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club[6]
- Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund[7]
- Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates[8]
- The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) appoints Robert Adamson to hold the inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry[9]
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Major publications
Literary fiction
- Tony Birch – Blood
- Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing[10]
- Annah Faulkner – The Beloved[11]
- Anna Funder – All That I Am
- Kate Grenville – Sarah Thornhill
- Gail Jones – Five Bells
- Jeanine Leane – Purple Threads
- Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
- Alex Miller – Autumn Laing
- Frank Moorhouse – Cold Light
- Favel Parrett – Past The Shallows
- Elliot Perlman – The Street Sweeper
- Craig Sherborne – The Amateur Science of Love[12]
- Cory Taylor – Me and Mr Booker[13]
- Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party
- Charlotte Wood – Animal People[14]
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Alexandra Adornetto – Hades[15]
- Em Bailey – Shift[16]
- J. C. Burke – Pig Boy
- Isobelle Carmody – The Sending
- Ursula Dubosarsky – The Golden Day
- Scott Gardner – The Dead I Know[17]
- Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails[18]
- Andrew McGahan – The Coming of the Whirlpool[19]
- Melina Marchetta – Froi of the Exiles[20]
- Vikki Wakefield – All I Ever Wanted[21]
- Scott Westerfeld – Goliath
Science fiction and fantasy
- Max Barry – Machine Man
- Trudi Canavan – The Rogue
- Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
- Will Elliott – Shadow[22]
- Kim Falconer – Road to the Soul[23]
- Pamela Freeman – Ember and Ash[24]
- Richard Harland – Liberator[25]
- Glenda Larke – Stormlord's Exile[26]
- Kim Westwood – The Courier's New Bicycle
Crime and mystery
- Alan Carter – Prime Cut[27]
- Peter Corris – Follow the Money[28]
- Garry Disher – Whispering Death[29]
- Sulari Gentill – A Decline in Prophets[30]
- Kerry Greenwood – Cooking the Books[31]
- Malcolm Knox – The Life
- Stuart Littlemore – Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice[32]
- Barry Maitland – Chelsea Mansions[33]
- Kel Robertson – Rip Off[34]
- Michael Robotham – The Wreckage[35]
Poetry
- Ali Alizadeh – Ashes in the Air[36]
- Joanne Burns – Amphora[37]
- Barry Hill – Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings[38]
- John Kinsella – Armour[39]
- Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited)[40]
- Jaya Savige – Surface to Air[41]
Biography
- Julian Assange – Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography[42]
- A. J. Brown – Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles[43]
- Eileen Chanin – Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907[44]
- Raimond Gaita – After Romulus[45]
- Mark McKenna – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark[46]
- Susan Mitchell – Tony Abbott: A Man's Man[47]
- Christine Nixon – Fair Cop[48]
- Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story[49]
- Alice Pung – Her Father's Daughter[50]
- David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History[51]
- Sarah Watt & William McInnes – Worse Things Happen at Sea[52]
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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
- 1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951)[78]
- 15 June – Anne Godfrey-Smith, poet and theatre producer/director (born 1921)[79]
- 20 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915)[80]
- 2 September – Bernard Smith, art historian (born 1916)
- 27 September – Sara Douglass, author (born 1957)[81]
- 4 October – Di Gribble, editor and publisher (born 1942)
- 8 December – Zelman Cowen, jurist (born 1919)
Unknown date
- May – Robert J. Merritt, playwright (born 1945)
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See also
References
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