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2020 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2020 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Patrick Allington – Rise & Shine[1]
- Robbie Arnott – The Rain Heron
- James Bradley – Ghost Species[2]
- Trent Dalton – All Our Shimmering Skies[3]
- Jon Doust – Return Ticket[4]
- Chris Flynn – Mammoth[5]
- Anna Goldsworthy – Melting Moments[6]
- Kate Grenville – A Room Made of Leaves
- Gail Jones – Our Shadows[7]
- Tom Keneally – The Dickens Boy[8]
- Sofie Laguna – Infinite Splendours[9]
- Bem Le Hunte – Elephants with Headlights[10]
- Carol Lefevre – Murmurations[11]
- Amanda Lohrey – The Labyrinth
- Laura Jean McKay – The Animals in That Country
- Andrew Pippos – Lucky's[12]
- Mirandi Riwoe – Stone Sky Gold Mountain[13]
- Ronnie Scott – The Adversary[14]
- Craig Silvey – Honeybee[15]
- Philip Salom – The Fifth Season[16]
- Nardi Simpson – Song of the Crocodile
- Madeleine Watts – The Inland Sea[17]
- Gina Wilkinson – When the Apricots Bloom
- Pip Williams – The Dictionary of Lost Words
- Daniel Davis Wood – At the Edge of the Solid World[18]
- Evie Wyld – The Bass Rock
Short stories
- Melissa Manning – Smokehouse
Children's and young adult fiction
- Davina Bell – The End of the World is Bigger than Love[19]
- Alex Dyson – When It Drops[20]
- Alison Evans – Euphoria Kids[21]
- Zana Fraillon – The Lost Soul Atlas[22]
- Jane Godwin – When Rain Turns to Snow[23]
- Kate Gordon – Aster's Good, Right Things[24]
- Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman – No! Never![25]
- Will Kostakis
- Anna McGregor – Anemone Is Not The Enemy
- Cath Moore – Metal Fish, Falling Snow[28]
- Jaclyn Moriarty – The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst[29]
- Sally Murphy – Worse Things[30]
- Katrina Nannestad – We Are Wolves[31]
- Garth Nix – The Left-Handed Booksellers of London[32]
- Kirli Saunders – Bindi[33]
- Shaun Tan – Dog[34]
- Jessica Townsend – Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
Crime
- Anne Buist – The Long Shadow[35]
- Garry Disher – Consolation
- Candice Fox – Gathering Dark[36]
- Sulari Gentill – A Testament of Character[37]
- Jane Harper – The Survivors[38]
- Sally Hepworth – The Good Sister[39]
- Dervla McTiernan – The Good Turn[40]
- J. P. Pomare – Tell Me Lies[41]
- Michael Robotham – When She Was Good[42]
- Sarah Thornton – White Throat[43]
- David Whish-Wilson – True West[44]
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Max Barry – Providence
- Trudi Canavan – Maker's Curse[45]
- Greg Egan – Instantiation
- Gillian Polack – Poison & Light[46]
- Paul Voermans – The White Library[47]
Poetry
- Laurie Duggan – Homer Street[48]
- Michael Farrell – Family Trees[49]
- Kate Llewellyn – Harbour[50]
- Felicity Plunkett – A Kinder Sea[51]
- Ellen van Neerven
Non-fiction
- Julia Baird – Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark[54]
- Richard Fidler – The Golden Maze: A History of Prague[55]
- Michael Gawenda – The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Life[56]
- Eddie Jaku – The Happiest Man on Earth[57]
- John Kinsella – Displaced: A Rural Life[58]
- Grace Karskens – People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia
- Sophie McNeill – We Can't Say We Didn't Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity[59]
- Brenda Niall – Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson [60]
- Caroline Overington – Missing William Tyrrell[61]
- Christopher Pyne – The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble[62]
- Cassandra Pybus – Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
- Miranda Tapsell – Top End Girl[63]
- Robert Tickner – Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion[64]
- Malcolm Turnbull – A Bigger Picture[65]
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Awards and honours
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Deaths
- 1 January – Alexander Frater, travel writer and journalist (born 1937 in Vanuatu)[96]
- 6 January – Timoshenko Aslanides, poet (born 1943)[97]
- 20 January – Steph Bowe, young adult novelist and blogger (born 1994)[98]
- 1 April – Bruce Dawe, poet (born 1930)[99]
- 14 May – Judith Clarke, writer for children and teenagers (born 1943)[100]
- 5 June – Andrew Riemer, literary critic and author (born 1936)[101]
- 10 June – Jesse Blackadder, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1964)[102]
- 7 July – Elizabeth Harrower, novelist (born 1928)[103]
- 10 September – Barbara Ker Wilson, English-born Australian editor and novelist (born 1929)[104]
- 29 September – Ania Walwicz, poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist (born 1951 in Poland)[105]
- 6 November – Gerald Stone, journalist (born 1933 in USA)[106]
- 14 November – Greg Growden, sports journalist, author and biographer (born 1959/60)[107]
- 9 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator (born 1941)[108]
- 12 December – Wendy Brennan, romantic fiction writer (co-wrote with husband Frank Brennan as Emma Darcy) (born 1940)[109]
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