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2019 in Australian literature
Overview of literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2019 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Tony Birch – The White Girl[1]
- David Brooks – The Grass Library[2]
- Steven Carroll – The Year of the Beast[3]
- Melanie Cheng – Room for a Stranger[4]
- Peggy Frew – Islands[5]
- Peter Goldsworthy – Minotaur[6]
- John Hughes – No One[7]
- Anna Krien – Act of Grace[8]
- Melina Marchetta – The Place on Dalhousie[9]
- Andrew McGahan – The Rich Man's House (posthumous)[10]
- Gerald Murnane – A Season on Earth[11]
- Favel Parrett – There Was Still Love[12]
- Heather Rose – Bruny[13]
- Philip Salom – The Returns[14]
- Carrie Tiffany – Exploded View[15]
- Lucy Treloar – Wolfe Island[16]
- Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus
- Tara June Winch – The Yield
- Charlotte Wood – The Weekend[17]
Short stories
- Debra Adelaide – Zebra: And Other Stories[18]
- Yumna Kassab – The House of Youssef[19]
- Josephine Rowe – Here Until August[20]
Children's and young adult fiction
- Mem Fox – The Tiny Star
- Helena Fox – How It Feels to Float[21]
- Will Kostakis – Monuments[22]
- Tania McCartney – Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures[23]
- Meg McKinlay – Catch a Falling Star[24]
- Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu[25]
- Holden Sheppard – Invisible Boys[26]
- Vikki Wakefield – This is How We Change the Ending[27]
Crime
- Matthew Condon – The Night Dragon[28]
- Pip Drysdale – The Strangers We Know[29]
- Candice Fox – Gone By Midnight[30]
- Nick Gadd – Death of a Typographer[31]
- Tara Moss – Dead Man Switch[32]
- Dave Warner – River of Salt[33]
- Christian White – The Wife and the Widow
Science fiction
- John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars[34]
- Claire G. Coleman – The Old Lie
- Greg Egan
- Garth Nix – Angel Mage
Poetry
- Louise Crisp – Yuiquimbiang[35]
- Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition[36]
- Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu[37]
- L. K. Holt – Birth Plan[38]
- Gerald Murnane – Green Shadows and Other Poems[39]
- Pi O – Heide[40]
Non-fiction
- Jane Caro – Accidental Feminists[41]
- Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) – Growing Up African in Australia[42]
- Stan Grant
- Nicholas Hasluck – Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir[45]
- Jess Hill – See What You Made Me Do[46]
- Jacqueline Kent – Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook[47]
- Caro Llewellyn – Diving into Glass[48]
- Emily Maguire – This is What a Feminist Looks Like[49]
- Bianca Nogrady (editor) – The Best Australian Science Writing 2019[50]
- Christina Thompson – Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia[51]
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Awards and honours
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Deaths
- 20 January – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born 1938)[77]
- 1 February – Andrew McGahan, novelist (born 1966)[78]
- 4 March – Les Carlyon, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (born 1942)[79]
- 13 March – Edmund Capon, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London)[80]
- 15 March – Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria)[81]
- 22 March – Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (born 1927)[82]
- 29 April – Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born 1938)[83]
- 19 May – John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (born 1921)[84]
- 1 June – Christobel Mattingley, writer for children and young adults (born 1931)[85]
- 13 July – Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author (born 1956)[86]
- 21 July –
- 10 September – Hal Colebatch, poet and novelist (born 1945)[89]
- 30 October – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born 1939)[90]
- 24 November – Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died in Cambridge, England)(born 1939)[91]
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References
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