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2016 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2016 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2016.
Events
- The Mona Brand Award is awarded for the first time.[1]
Major publications
Literary fiction
Children's and young adult fiction
- Trace Balla – Rockhopping[4]
- Maxine Beneba Clarke – The Patchwork Bike
- Georgia Blain – Special[5]
- Andy Griffiths
- Zana Fraillon – The Bone Sparrow[8]
- Tania McCartney – Smile/Cry: A Beginner's Book of Feelings[9]
- Shivaun Plozza – Frankie[10]
- Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave[11]
- Claire Zorn – One Would Think the Deep[12]
Crime
- Peter Corris – That Empty Feeling
- Candice Fox and James Patterson – Never Never[13]
- Jane Harper – The Dry
- Emily Maguire – An Isolated Incident[14]
- Barry Maitland – Slaughter Park[15]
- Adrian McKinty – Rain Dogs[16]
- Jock Serong – The Rules of Backyard Cricket
- David Whish-Wilson – Old Scores[17]
Science fiction and fantasy
- Alison Croggon – The Bone Queen[18]
- Juliet Marillier – Den of Wolves[19]
- Anthony O'Neill – The Dark Side[20]
- C. S. Pacat – Kings Rising[21]
- Lian Hearn – Emperor of the Eight Islands[22]
- Angela Slatter – Vigil[23]
Poetry
- Peter Boyle – Ghostspeaking[24]
- Maxine Beneba Clarke – Carrying the World[25]
- John Kinsella – Drowning in Wheat[26]
- Berndt Sellheim – Awake at the Wheel[27]
- Susan Varga – Rupture: Poems 2012–2015[28]
Drama
- Leah Purcell – The Drover's Wife
- David Morton – The Wider Earth
Biographies
- Deng Thiak Adut with Ben McKelvey – Songs of a War Boy: My Story[29]
- Julia Baird – Victoria: The Queen[30]
- Jimmy Barnes –Working Class Boy
- Mark Colvin – Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son[31]
- Suzanne Falkiner – Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow[32]
- Stan Grant – Talking to My Country[33]
- Cory Taylor – Dying: A Memoir[34]
Non-fiction
- Richard Fidler – Ghost Empire
- Peter FitzSimons – Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: Why a French town will never forget the Anzacs[35]
- Clementine Ford – Fight Like A Girl[36]
- Helen Garner – Everywhere I Look
- David Hunt – True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2[37]
- Lynne Kelly – The Memory Code[38]
- Tara Moss – Speaking Out: A 21st Century Handbook For Women and Girls[39]
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Awards and honours
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Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Literary
Fiction
National
Children and young adult
National
Crime and mystery
National
Science fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
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Deaths
- 31 January – David Lake, science fiction novelist (born 1929 in India)[62]
- 3 February – Dimitris Tsaloumas, poet (born 1921 in Greece)[63]
- 19 February – Kim Gamble, illustrator of children's books (born 1952)[64]
- 3 April – Bob Ellis, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator (born 1942)[65]
- 20 April – Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, author, editor and academic (born 1924)[66]
- 16 May – Gillian Mears, short story writer and novelist (born 1964)[67]
- 5 July – Cory Taylor, writer (born 1955)[68]
- 15 July – Billy Marshall Stoneking, poet, playwright, filmmaker and teacher (born 1947 in Orlando, Florida)[69]
- 4 September – Richard Neville, writer and social commentator (born 1941)[70]
- 8 September – Inga Clendinnen, author and historian (born 1934)[71]
- 3 October – Narelle Oliver, award-winning children's author-illustrator, artist and print maker (born 1960)[72]
- 19 November – Margaret Paice, children's writer and illustrator (born 1920)[73]
- 9 December – Georgia Blain, novelist, journalist and biographer (born 1964)[74]
- 12 December –
- Anne Deveson, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and social commentator (born 1930 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)[75]
- Shirley Hazzard, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died in Manhattan, New York)(born 1931)[76]
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See also
References
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