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2021 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2021 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Aravind Adiga – Amnesty[1]
- Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Other Half of You[2]
- Miles Allinson – In Moonland
- Larissa Behrendt – After Story
- Steven Carroll – O[3]
- Michelle de Kretser – Scary Monsters[4]
- Jennifer Down – Bodies of Light
- Briohny Doyle – Echolalia[5]
- Max Easton – The Magpie Wing[6]
- Nikki Gemmell – The Ripping Tree[7]
- Anita Heiss – Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams
- Tom Keneally – Corporal Hitler's Pistol
- John Kinsella – Pushing Back[8]
- Emily Maguire – Love Objects[9]
- Jennifer Mills – The Airways[10]
- Alice Pung – One Hundred Days[11]
- Nicolas Rothwell – Red Heaven
- Claire Thomas – The Performance[12]
- Christos Tsiolkas – 7 ½[13]
- Michael Winkler – Grimmish
Short story collections
- Tony Birch – Dark as Last Night
Children's and young adult fiction
- Felicity Castagna – Girls in Boys' Cars[14]
- Sophie Gonzales – Only Mostly Devastated[15]
- Katrina Nannestad – Rabbit, Soldier, Angel Thief[16]
Crime and mystery
- Tim Ayliffe – The Enemy Within[17]
- Mark Brandi – The Others[18]
- B. M. Carroll – You Had It Coming[19]
- Candice Fox – The Chase
- Helen FitzGerald – Ash Mountain[20]
- Jack Heath – Kill Your Brother[21]
- Charlotte McConaghy – Once There Were Wolves[22]
- Debra Oswald – The Family Doctor[23]
- Kyle Perry – The Deep[24]
- Michael Robotham – When You Are Mine[25]
Science fiction and fantasy
- Max Barry – The 22 Murders of Madison May[26]
- Greg Egan – The Book of All Skies
- Shelley Parker-Chan – She Who Became the Sun
- Angela Slatter – All the Murmuring Bones[27]
- Janeen Webb – The Five Star Republic with Andrew Enstice[28]
Poetry
- Eunice Andrada – Take Care
- Evelyn Araluen – Dropbear
- Pam Brown – Stasis Shuffle[29]
- Maxine Beneba Clarke – How Decent Folk Behave[30]
- Andy Jackson – Human Looking[31]
- Elfie Shiosaki – Homecoming[32]
- Maria Takolander – Trigger Warning[33]
Non-fiction
- Randa Abdel-Fattah – Coming of Age in the War on Terror[34]
- Julia Banks – Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs[35]
- Alison Croggon – Monsters: A reckoning[36]
- Jaivet Ealom – Escape From Manus
- Mehreen Faruqi – Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud[37]
- Ross Garnaut – Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession[38]
- Stan Grant – With the Falling of the Dusk[39]
- Dale Kent – The Most I Could Be[40]
- Scott Ludlam – Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next[41]
- Mark McKenna – Return to Uluru[42]
- Henry Reynolds – Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement[43]
- Jeff Sparrow – Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating[44]
- Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas (illustrator) – The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples[45]
Collected essays
- Chelsea Watego – Another Day in the Colony[46]
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Awards and honours
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Non-Fiction
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Deaths
- 1 May – Kate Jennings, poet and writer (died in the United States) (b. 1948)[76]
- 25 April – Valerie Parv, romance novelist (b. 1951)[77]
- 16 May – Vera Deacon, historian (b. 1926)[78]
- 16 September – Tim Thorne, poet (b. 1944)[79]
- 22 November –
- Stuart Macintyre, historian (b. 1947)[80]
- Doug MacLeod, children's writer, poet, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1959)[81]
- Babette Smith, historian (b. 1942)[80]
- 26 November – Desmond O'Grady, journalist and author (died in Rome) (b. 1929)[82]
- 26 December – Paul B. Kidd, radio broadcaster and true crime writer (b. 1945)[83]
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