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2018 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2018 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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[1]
- Ceridwen Dovey – In the Garden of the Fugitives[2]
- Rodney Hall – A Stolen Season[3]
- Gail Jones – The Death of Noah Glass
- Eleanor Limprecht – The Passengers[4]
- Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip
- Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Kristina Olsson – Shell[5]
- Ryan O'Neill – The Drover's Wives[6]
- Kim Scott – Taboo[7]
- Tracy Sorensen – The Lucky Galah
- Elise Valmorbida – The Madonna of the Mountains
- Tim Winton – The Shepherd's Hut[8]
- Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Maxine Beneba Clarke – Wide Big World, illustrated by Isobel Knowles[9]
- Mem Fox – Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again, illustrated by Judy Horacek[10]
- Andy Griffiths – The 104-Storey Treehouse[11]
- Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekial Kwaymullina – Catching Teller Crow[12]
- Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave[13]
- Shaun Tan
- Lili Wilkinson – After the Lights Go Out[16]
Crime and Mystery
- Garry Disher – Kill Shot[17]
- Candice Fox – Redemption Point[18]
- Kerry Greenwood – The Spotted Dog[19]
- Chris Hammer – Scrublands
- Jane Harper – The Lost Man
- Dervla McTiernan – The Rúin
- Kate Morton – The Clockmaker's Daughter[20]
- Michael Robotham – The Other Wife[21]
- Sue Williams – Live and Let Fry[22]
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Alan Baxter
- Kylie Chan – Scales of Empire[25]
- Traci Harding – This Present Past[26]
- Jennifer Mills – Dyschronia[27]
- Kaaron Warren – Tide of Stone[28]
Poetry
- Jordie Albiston – Warlines[29]
- Judith Beveridge – Sun Music: New and Selected Poems[30]
- Ken Bolton – Starting at Basheer's[31]
- Sarah Day – Towards Light & Other Poems[32]
- Paul Hetherington – Moonlight on Oleander[33]
- Bella Li – Lost Lake[34]
- John Mateer – João[35]
- Tim Metcalf – The Underwritten Plain[36]
- Tracy Ryan – The Water Bearer[37]
Drama
- Alana Valentine – The Sugar House[38]
Biographies and memoirs
- Peter FitzSimons – Monash's Masterpiece [39]
- Jacqui Lambie – Rebel with a Cause: You can't keep a bloody Lambie down — my story from soldier to senator and beyond[40]
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie – The Erratics[41]
- Bri Lee – Eggshell Skull
- Anne Summers – Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir[42]
- Gillian Triggs – Speaking Up[43]
- Nadia Wheatley – Her Mother's Daughter[44]
Non-fiction
- Cynthia Banham – A Certain Light[45]
- Steve Biddulph – Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century: How To Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind And Strong Men[46]
- Behrouz Boochani – No Friend But the Mountains
- Stephen Gapps – The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817[47]
- Richard Glover – The Land Before Avocado[48]
- Billy Griffiths – Deep Time Dreaming[49]
- Anita Heiss (editor) – Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia[50]
- Chloe Hooper – The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire[51]
- Thomas Keneally – Australians: A Short History[52]
- Meredith Lake – The Bible in Australia: A cultural history[53]
- Michael C. Madden – The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers[54]
- Leigh Sales – Any Ordinary Day[55]
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Awards and honours
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Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
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Deaths
- 6 March – Peter Nicholls, writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (born 1939)[83]
- 8 March – Peter Temple, author of Jack Irish series (born 1946)[84]
- 3 April – Noela Young, children's book illustrator and writer (born 1930)[85][86]
- 14 April – Frank Bren, Australian actor and playwright (born 1943)[87]
- 16 April – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer (born 1941)[88]
- 1 June – Jill Ker Conway, academic and memoir writer, author of The Road from Coorain (born 1934)[89]
- 2 June – Tony Morphett, screenwriter and novelist (born 1938)[90]
- 30 August – Peter Corris, crime novelist (born 1942)[91]
- 31 August – Ian Jones author and television writer and director (born 1931)[92]
- 12 September – Albert Ullin OAM, German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore, The Little Bookroom (born 1930)[93]
- 16 September – John Molony, historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University (born 1927)[94]
- 6 October – James Cowan, author (born 1942)[95]
- 21 October – Eleanor Witcombe, screenwriter and playwright (born 1923)[96]
- 22 October
- 22 November – Judith Rodriguez, poet and academic (born 1936)[99]
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