Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts[2]
Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading[3]
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day[4]
Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011[5]
Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club[6]
Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund[7]
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011 Contents 1 Events 2 Major publications 2 1 Literary fiction 2 2 Children s and Young Adult fiction 2 3 Science Fiction and Fantasy 2 4 Crime and Mystery 2 5 Poetry 2 6 Biography 3 Awards and honours 3 1 Lifetime achievement 3 2 Literary 3 3 Fiction 3 3 1 International 3 3 2 National 3 4 Children and Young Adult 3 4 1 National 3 5 Crime and Mystery 3 5 1 National 3 6 Science fiction 3 7 Non Fiction 3 8 Poetry 3 9 Drama 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 ReferencesEvents editFour authors are named in the Queen s Birthday Honours Peter FitzSimons Susanne Gervay Roland Perry and Chris Wallace Crabbe 1 Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts 2 Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading 3 Australian Booksellers Association ABA declares Saturday 20 August 2011 the inaugural National Bookshop Day 4 Final issue of the Australian Literary Review to be published in October 2011 5 Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York s Manhattan Theatre Club 6 Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund 7 Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia s first Children s Laureates 8 The University of Technology Sydney UTS appoints Robert Adamson to hold the inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry 9 Major publications editLiterary fiction edit Tony Birch Blood Geraldine Brooks Caleb s Crossing 10 Annah Faulkner The Beloved 11 Anna Funder All That I Am Kate Grenville Sarah Thornhill Gail Jones Five Bells Jeanine Leane Purple Threads Gillian Mears Foal s Bread Alex Miller Autumn Laing Frank Moorhouse Cold Light Favel Parrett Past The Shallows Elliot Perlman The Street Sweeper 12 Craig Sherborne The Amateur Science of Love 13 Rohan Wilson The Roving Party Charlotte Wood Animal People 14 Children s and Young Adult fiction edit Alexandra Adornetto Hades Em Bailey Shift J C Burke Pig Boy Isobelle Carmody The Sending Ursula Dubosarsky The Golden Day Scott Gardner The Dead I Know Steven Herrick Black Painted Fingernails Andrew McGahan The Coming of the Whirlpool Melina Marchetta Froi of the Exiles Vikki Wakefield All I Ever Wanted Scott Westerfeld Goliath Science Fiction and Fantasy edit Max Barry Machine Man Trudi Canavan The Rogue Peter Docker The Water Boys Greg Egan The Clockwork Rocket Will Elliott Shadow Kim Falconer Road to the Soul Pamela Freeman Ember and Ash Richard Harland Liberator Glenda Larke Stormlord s Exile Kim Westwood The Courier s New Bicycle Crime and Mystery edit Alan Carter Prime Cut Peter Corris Follow the Money Garry Disher Whispering Death Kerry Greenwood Cooking the Books Stuart Littlemore Harry Curry Counsel of Choice Barry Maitland Chelsea Mansion Kel Robertson Rip Off Michael Robotham The Wreckage Poetry edit Ali Alizadeh Ashes in the Air Joanne Burns Amphora Barry Hill Lines for Birds Poems and Paintings John Kinsella Armour Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited Jaya Savige Surface to Air Biography edit Julian Assange Julian Assange The Unauthorised Autobiography A J Brown Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles Eileen Chanin Book Life The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836 1907 Raimond Gaita After Romulus Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity The Life of Manning Clark Susan Mitchell Tony Abbott A Man s Man Christine Nixon Fair Cop Sue Pieters Hawke Hazel My Mother s Story Alice Pung Her Father s Daughter David Robert Walker Not Dark Yet A Personal History Sarah Watt William McInnes Worse Things Happen at SeaAwards and honours editLifetime achievement edit Award Author Christopher Brennan Award 15 Jennifer Harrison Patrick White Award 16 Robert Adamson Literary edit Award Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year 17 Fiona McGregor Indelible Ink Scribe Publishing ALS Gold Medal 18 Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador Colin Roderick Award 19 Karen Kissane Worst of Days Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm Hachette Australia Nita Kibble Literary Award 20 Brenda Walker Reading by Moonlight Hamish Hamilton Victorian Prize for Literature 21 Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador Fiction edit International edit Award Region Category Author Title Publisher Commonwealth Writers Prize 22 SE Asia and South Pacific Best Book Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador National edit Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 23 Not awarded The Age Book of the Year Award 24 Fiona McGregor Indelible Ink Scribe Publications The Australian Vogel Literary Award 25 Rohan Wilson The Roving Party Allen amp Unwin Barbara Jefferis Award 26 G L Osborne Come Inside Clouds of Magellan Colin Roderick Award Gillian Mears Foal s Bread Allen and Unwin Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Fiction 27 Chris Womersley Bereft Scribe Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Debut Fiction 27 Jon Bauer Rocks in the Belly Scribe Miles Franklin Award 28 Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador Prime Minister s Literary Awards 29 Stephen Daisley Traitor Text Publishing New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards 30 Alex Miller Lovesong Allen amp Unwin Queensland Premier s Literary Awards Amanda Lohrey Reading Madame Bovary Black Inc Victorian Premier s Literary Award 21 Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador Western Australian Premier s Book Awards Anna Funder All That I Am Penguin Books Children and Young Adult edit National edit Award Category Author Title Publisher Children s Book of the Year Award Older Readers Sonya Hartnett The Midnight Zoo Viking Books Younger Readers Isobelle Carmody The Red Wind Viking Books Picture Book Jeanie Baker Mirror Walker Books Nicki Greenberg Hamlet Allen amp Unwin Early Childhood Jan Ormerod illus Freya Blackwood Maudie Bear Little Hare Books Davitt Award Young Adult Novel Penny Matthews A Girl Like Me Penguin Group New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards Children s Sophie Masson My Australian Story The Hunt for Ned Kelly Scholastic Australia Young People s Cath Crowley Graffiti Moon Pan Macmillan Australia Queensland Premier s Literary Awards Children s Michael Gerard Bauer Just a Dog Omnibus Books Young Adult Barry Jonsberg Being Here Allen amp Unwin Victorian Premier s Literary Award Young Adult Fiction Cassandra Golds The Three Loves of Persimmon Penguin Group Western Australian Premier s Book Awards Children s Michelle Gillespie amp Sonia Martinez Sam Grace and the Shipwreck Fremantle Press Writing for Young Adults Penni Russon Only Ever Always Allen and Unwin Crime and Mystery edit National edit Award Category Author Title Publisher Davitt Award 31 Novel Katherine Howell Cold Justice Pan Macmillan Young Adult novel Penny Matthews A Girl Like Me Penguin True crime Colleen Egan Murderer No More Allen amp Unwin Readers choice P M Newton The Old School Viking Ned Kelly Award 32 Novel Geoffrey McGeachin The Diggers Rest Hotel Penguin Books First novel Alan Carter Prime Cut Fremantle Press True crime Geesche Jacobsen Abandoned The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble Allen amp Unwin Lifetime achievement Not awarded Science fiction edit Award Category Author Title Publisher Aurealis Award SF Novel Kim Westwood The Courier s New Bicycle HarperVoyager SF Short Story Robert N Stephenson Rains of la Strange Coeur de Lion Publishing Anywhere but Earth Fantasy Novel Pamela Freeman Ember and Ash Hachette Fantasy Short Story Thoraiya Dyer Fruit of the Pipal Tree FableCroft Publishing After the Rain Horror Short Story Paul Haines The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt Brimstone Press The Last Days of Kali Yuga Lisa L Hannett The Short Go a Future in Eight Seconds Ticonderoga Publications Bluegrass Symphony Australian Shadows Awards Novel No Award Long Fiction Paul Haines The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt Brimstone Press The Last Days of Kali Yuga Short Fiction Amanda J Spedding Shovel Man Joe Shades of Sentience May 2011 Edited Publication Russell B Farr editor Dead Red Heart Ticonderoga Publications Collected Works Brett McBean Tales of Sin and Madness LegumeMan Books Ditmar Award Novel Tansy Rayner Roberts Power and Majesty HarperVoyager Novella Novelette Thoraiya Dyer The Company Articles of Edward Teach Twelfth Planet Press Short Story Cat Sparks All the Love in the World Twelfth Planet Press Sprawl Kirstyn McDermott She Said Morrigan Books Scenes From the Second Storey Collected Work Alisa Krasnostein ed Sprawl Twelfth Planet Press Non Fiction edit Award Category Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year Non fiction Jim Davidson A Three Cornered Life UNSW Press Children s Book of the Year Award Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Ursula Dubosarsky illus Tohby Riddle The Return of the Word Spy Viking Books Davitt Award True crime Colleen Egan Murderer No More Allen amp Unwin National Biography Award Alasdair McGregor Grand Obsessions The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin Lantern Indie Book Awards Book of the Year 27 Non Fiction Anh Do The Happiest Refugee Allen amp Unwin Prime Minister s Literary Awards Non fiction Rod Moss The Hard Light of Day University of Queensland Press New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards Non fiction Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons Malcolm Fraser The Political Memoirs Melbourne University Publishing New South Wales Premier s History Awards Australian History Penny Russell Savage or Civilised Manners in Colonial Australia UNSW Press Community and Regional History Stephen Gapps Cabrogal to Fairfield City A History of a Multicultural Community Fairfield City Council General History Shane White Stephen Garton Stephen Robertson and Graham White Playing the Numbers Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars Harvard University Press Young People s Kirsty Murray India Dark Allen amp Unwin Queensland Premier s Literary Awards Non fiction Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity The Life of Manning Clark Melbourne University Publishing History Alan Powell Northern Voyagers Australia s monsoon coast in maritime history Australian Scholarly Publishing Victorian Premier s Literary Award Non fiction Mark McKenna An Eye for Eternity The Life of Manning Clark Melbourne University Publishing Western Australian Premier s Book Awards Non fiction Alice Pung Her Father s Daughter Black Inc Western Australian history Fiona Skyring Justice A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia University of Western Australia Press Poetry edit Award Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year John Tranter Starlight 150 Poems University of Queensland Press Anne Elder Award 33 Rosanna Licari The Weather of Tongues Sunline Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 34 Not awarded Mary Gilmore Prize 35 Not awarded New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards Jennifer Maiden Pirate Rain Giramondo Publishing Queensland Premier s Literary Awards John Tranter Starlight 150 Poems University of Queensland Press Victorian Premier s Literary Award Cate Kennedy The Taste of River Water Scribe Western Australian Premier s Book Awards Tracy Ryan The Argument Fremantle Press Drama edit Award Category Author Title Publisher New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards Play Patricia Cornelius Do Not Go Gentle Currency Press Script Debra Oswald Offspring Southern Star Entertainment Patrick White Playwrights Award Award Phillip Kavanagh Little Borders Fellowship Patricia CorneliusDeaths edit1 March Hazel Rowley author born 1951 36 15 June Anne Godfrey Smith poet and theatre producer director born 1921 37 20 June T A G Hungerford author born 1915 38 2 September Bernard Smith art historian born 1916 27 September Sara Douglass author born 1957 39 4 October Di Gribble editor and publisher born 1942 8 December Zelman Cowen jurist born 1919 Unknown date May Robert J Merritt playwright born 1945 See also edit2011 in Australia 2011 in literature 2011 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature List of Australian literary awardsReferences edit Australian Writers Named in Queen s Birthday Honours Keneally s Library Finds New Home National Year of Reading in 2012 National Bookshop Day Australian Literary Review to Cease Publication Hannie Rayson Wins New York Commission Hazel Rowley s Literary Legacy Australia s First Children s Laureates Announced UTS Appoints Inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry Austlit Caleb s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Austlit Retrieved 29 January 2024 Austlit The Beloved by Annah Faulkner Austlit Retrieved 29 January 2024 Austlit The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman Austlit Retrieved 29 January 2024 Austlit The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne Austlit Retrieved 29 January 2024 Austlit Animal People by Charlotte Wood Austlit Retrieved 29 January 2024 Austlit FAW Christopher Brennan Award Austlit Retrieved 10 September 2023 Former inmate wins 18 000 poetry prize canberratimes com au 7 November 2011 Archived from the original on 7 November 2011 Retrieved 10 September 2023 Steger Jason 26 August 2011 Winning words The Age Archived from the original on 16 December 2018 Retrieved 26 February 2024 ALS Gold Medal Previous Winners Association for the Study of Australian Literature Retrieved 13 January 2024 Colin Roderick Award Other Winners James Cook University Retrieved 2 February 2024 Kibble Literary Award Australian National University 9 June 2009 Retrieved 9 March 2024 a b Victorian Premier s Literary Awards 2011 The Wheeler Centre Retrieved 3 February 2024 2011 prize final programme Commonwealth Foundation 21 May 2011 Archived from the original on 3 September 2011 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Past Literary Award Winners State Library of South Australia Retrieved 18 April 2024 The Age Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2008 2012 Austlit Retrieved 15 February 2024 Austlit Australian Vogel Award 2009 2012 Austlit Retrieved 19 February 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award Australian Society of Authors Retrieved 20 January 2024 a b c Indie Book Awards Winners 2012 amp prior Australian Independent Booksellers Retrieved 12 March 2024 Kim Scott wins prestigious Miles Franklin ABC News 22 June 2011 Retrieved 9 August 2022 Prime Minister s Literary Awards Shortlist and winners 2021 2008 Creative Australia Retrieved 11 January 2024 Fraser the Cold War warrior joins the literati The Age 17 May 2011 Retrieved 30 December 2023 LibraryThing Davitt Awards 2011 LibraryThing Retrieved 14 January 2024 Ned Kelly Awards 2011 Mystery Readers Inc Retrieved 24 January 2024 Austlit Anne Elder Award 2011 2013 Austlit Retrieved 28 February 2024 Austlit Grace Leven Poetry prize 2008 2012 Austlit Retrieved 28 February 2024 Mary Gilmore Award Association for the Study of Australian Literature Retrieved 29 February 2024 Hazel Rowley AustLit Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland Retrieved 23 September 2023 Anne Godfrey Smith AustLit Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland Retrieved 23 September 2023 T A G Hungerford AustLit Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland Retrieved 14 September 2023 Sara Douglass AustLit Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland Retrieved 21 February 2024 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2011 in Australian literature amp oldid 1222623882, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
