This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2003.

Events

* Peter Carey and Joan London join the list of authors who have withdrawn from contention for the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. In 2002

Richard Flanagan Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel ''The Narrow Road to the Deep North (novel), The Narrow Road to the Deep North'' and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for ''Question 7'', ...

and

Tim Winton Timothy John Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer. He has written novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the ...

also declined to have their books nominated for the prize in protest at the involvement of Forestry Tasmania as a sponsor of the Ten Days on the Island festival at which the award winner is to be announced.Austlit Gateway News March/April 2003
/ref> *Members of The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) voted in their Society's 40th anniversary poll to select Australia's favourite book.

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Cloudstreet ''Cloudstreet'' is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Au ...

'' headed the poll followed by '' The Man Who Loved Children'' by

Christina Stead Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a me ...

and '' The Fortunes of Richard Mahony'' by

Henry Handel Richardson Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 1870 – 20 March 1946), known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author. Life Born in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, into a prosperous family that later fell on har ...

.Austlit Gateway News July/August 2003
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Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his enginee ...

's 1950 novel, ''

A Town Like Alice ''A Town Like Alice'' (United States title: ''The Legacy'') is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner ...

'' was included in a BBC-sponsored UK survey of 100 popular novels, but has failed to make a similar Australian list.Austlit Gateway News September/October 2003
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Major publications

Literary fiction

* Alan Atwood – ''Burke's Soldier'' * Peter Carey – ''

My Life as a Fake ''My Life as a Fake'' is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine ''Angry Penguins''. ...

'' *

Brian Castro Brian Albert Castro (born 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist. Early life and education Castro was born at sea, between Macau and Hong Kong, in 1950. His father was of Spanish, Portuguese, and English descent, and born in Shanghai. His ...

– ''

Shanghai Dancing ''Shanghai Dancing'' is a 2003 novel by Australian novelist Brian Castro. Plot summary The novel's main character is, like the author, named Castro, living in Australia and hailing from a Chinese and Portuguese background. Antonio Castro is ...

'' *

J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Australia, AC Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 ...

– ''

Elizabeth Costello '' Elizabeth Costello'' is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. In this novel, Elizabeth Costello, a celebrated aging Australian writer, travels around the world and gives lectures on topics including the lives of ...

'' * Julian Davies – ''The Boy'' *

Nikki Gemmell Nikki Gemmell (born 1966) is a best-selling Australian author. She resides in Sydney, Australia. Career Gemmell is the best-selling author of fourteen works of fiction and seven non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into 22 languages ...

– '' The Bride Stripped Bare'' *

Peter Goldsworthy Peter David Goldsworthy (born 1951) is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won major awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera Libretto, libretti. He is known for his novels ''Honk If You Are Jesus'', and ''Thr ...

– ''

Three Dog Night Three Dog Night is an American rock band formed in 1967, founded by vocalists Chuck Negron, Cory Wells, and Danny Hutton. This lineup was soon augmented by Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboards), Joe Schermie (bass), Michael Allsup (guitar), and Floyd Sn ...

'' *

Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held U.S. citizenship. Hazzard's 1970 novel '' The Bay of Noon'' was shortlisted ...

– '' The Great Fire'' *

Kathryn Heyman Kathryn Heyman is an Australian writer of novels and plays. She is the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program and the Fiction Program Director of Faber Writing Academy. Career Born in New South Wales, Australia, she was brought ...

– ''The Accomplice'' *

Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (So ...

– ''Due Preparations for the Plague'' * M. J. Hyland – ''How the Light Gets In'' *

Annamarie Jagose Annamarie Jagose (born 1965) is an LGBT academic and writer of fictional works. Life and career Jagose was born in Ashburton, New Zealand in 1965. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in 1992, and worked in the Department of ...

– '' Slow Water'' * Nada A. Jarrar – ''Somewhere, Home'' *

Tom Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his historical fiction novel '' Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Hol ...

– '' The Tyrant's Novel'' *

Kathy Lette Kathryn Marie Lette (born 11 November 1958) is an Australian and British author. She came to prominence with her 1979 novel '' Puberty Blues''. Early life and education Kathryn Marie Lette was born in November 1958 in Sydney. She appeared in ...

– ''Dead Sexy'' *

Colleen McCullough Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being '' The Thorn Birds'' and '' The Ladies of Missalonghi''. Lif ...

– '' The Touch'' *

Nerida Newton Nerida Newton (born 1972) is an Australian novelist whose first novel, ''The Lambing Flat'' won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In 2004 the n ...

– ''

The Lambing Flat ''The Lambing Flat'' is the first novel by Australian author Nerida Newton; it was first published in 2003. She has since written a second novel, '' Death of a Whaler''. Plot The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century Australian gold rush ...

'' *

Elliot Perlman Elliot Perlman (born 7 May 1964) is an Australian author and barrister. He has written four novels ('' Three Dollars'', '' Seven Types of Ambiguity'', ''The Street Sweeper'' and ''Maybe the Horse Will Talk''), one short story collection (''The ...

– ''

Seven Types of Ambiguity ''Seven Types of Ambiguity'' is a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in 1930. It was one of the most influential critical works of the 20th century and was a key foundation work in the formation of the New Cri ...

'' * D. B. C. Pierre – ''

Vernon God Little ''Vernon God Little'' (2003) is a novel by DBC Pierre. It was his debut novel and won the Man Booker Prize in 2003. It has twice been adapted as a stage play. Plot synopsis The life of Vernon Little, a normal teenager who lives in Martirio, T ...

'' * Patricia Shaw – ''The Five Winds'' * Sue Woolfe – ''The Secret Cure''

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Pamela Allen Pamela Kay Allen (née Griffiths; born 3 April 1934) is a New Zealand children's writer and illustrator. She has published over 50 picture books since 1980. Sales of her books have exceeded five million copies. Early life and family Born in ...

– ''

Cuthbert's Babies ''Cuthbert's Babies'' is a 2003 children's picture book written and illustrated by Pamela Allen. Published by Penguin Books Australia, It is about a boy who resents the arrival of baby quadruplets and how he accepts them. Reception ''Cuthber ...

'' * Paul Collins – ''The Earthborn'' *

Kate Constable Kate Constable (born 1966) is an Australian author. Her first novel was '' The Singer of All Songs'', the first in the ''Chanters of Tremaris'' trilogy. It was later followed by '' The Waterless Sea'' and ''The Tenth Power''. Biography Constabl ...

– '' The Waterless Sea'' *

Marianne Curley Marianne Curley, (born 20 May 1959) is an Australian author best known for her Guardians of Time Trilogy and Old Magic books. Life According to her official biography, Marianne Curley formerly lived in Coffs Harbour, on the Mid North Coa ...

– ''The Dark'' * Justin D'Ath – ''Shaedow Master'' *

Garry Disher Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature. He is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. Disher has written three main ...

– ''Eva's Angel'' * John Heffernan – ''GBH'' *

Melina Marchetta Carmelina Marchetta (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of teen novels, '' Looking for Alibrandi'', '' Saving Francesca'' and '' On the Jellicoe Road''. She has twice been awarded the ...

– ''Saving Francesca'' * David Metzenthen – ''Boys of Blood & Bone'' *

Jaclyn Moriarty Jaclyn Moriarty (born 1968 in Perth) is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature. She is a recipient of the Davitt Award and the Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction. Biography Moriarty was raised in the north-west ...

– ''Finding Cassie Crazy'' * Martine Murray – '' How to Make a Bird'' *

Garth Nix Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the ''The Old Kingdom, Old Kingdom'', ''The Seventh Tower, Seventh Tower'' and ''The Keys to the Kingdom, Keys t ...

** ''

Abhorsen ''Abhorsen'' is a fantasy novel by Australian writer Garth Nix, first published in 2003. It is the third book in the Old Kingdom series (following ''Sabriel'' and ''Lirael''). ''Abhorsen'' features Lirael, who is the recently revealed Abhorsen-i ...

'' ** ''

Mister Monday ''Mister Monday'' is the first novel in the series ''The Keys to the Kingdom'' by Garth Nix. It follows Arthur Penhaligon, a twelve-year-old boy who discovers that he is the heir to an otherworldly House and must fulfil a mysterious Will in orde ...

'' *

Emily Rodda Jennifer June Rowe, (born 2 April 1948), is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson. She is well kn ...

– '' Rowan of the Bukshah'' *

Janeen Webb Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton) is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Biography The daughter of a Second World War Australian Army commando and salesman, Webb was brought up in ...

– ''The Silken Road to Samarkand''

Crime

* Kirsty Brooks – ''The Vodka Dialogue'' *

Ian Callinan Ian David Francis Callinan (born 1 September 1937) is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. Education Born in Casino, New South Wales, Callinan was raised in Brisbane, Queenslan ...

– ''Appointment at Amalfi'' *

Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...

– '' Degrees of Connection'' *

Peter Corris Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-w ...

– ''Master's Mates'' *

Michelle de Kretser Michelle de Kretser (born 1957) is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14. Her father was Oswald Leslie De Kretser III, a judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Education an ...

– '' The Hamilton Case'' *

– ''Kittyhawk Down'' *

Kerry Greenwood Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (17 June 1954 – 26 March 2025) was an Australian author and lawyer. She wrote many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted a ...

– ''The Castlemaine Murders: A Phryne Fisher Mystery'' * Wayne Grogan – ''Junkie Pilgrim'' * Gabrielle Lord – ''Lethal Factor'' * Barry Maitland – ''The Verge Practice'' *

Matthew Reilly Matthew John Reilly (born 2 July 1974) is an internationally bestselling Australian action thriller writer.
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– ''Scarecrow'' *

Gregory David Roberts Gregory David Roberts (born Gregory John Peter Smith; 1952) is an Australian author best known for his novel '' Shantaram''. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, w ...

– '' Shantaram'' *

Michael Robotham Michael Robotham (born 9 November 1960) is an Australian crime fiction writer who has twice won the CWA Gold Dagger award for best novel and twice been shortlisted for the Edgar Award for best novel. His eldest child is Alexandra Hope Robotham, ...

– ''The Suspect'' * Steve J. Spears – ''Murder at the Fortnight'' *

Peter Temple Peter Temple (10 March 1946 – 8 March 2018) was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his ''Jack Irish'' novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. He w ...

– '' White Dog'' * Lee Tulloch – ''The Cutting: A Nullin Mystery'' *

Robin Wallace-Crabbe Robin Wallace-Crabbe (born 1938, Melbourne) has been actively involved in the Australian arts scene since the 1960s as a curator of exhibitions, literary reviewer, cartoonist, illustrator, book designer, publisher and a commenter on art. He is b ...

– ''The Forger''

Romance

Ally Blake Ally Blake is an Australian writer of romance novels. Biography Ally Blake was born in a small town in Outback Queensland, Australia. She graduated from St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane. She earned her bachelor's degree from the Universi ...

– ''The Wedding Wish'' * Lucy Clark – ''Englishman at Dingo Creek'' * Barbara Hannay – ''A Wedding at Windaroo'' *

Stephanie Laurens Stephanie Laurens (born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka), is a best-selling Australian author of romance novels. Biography Stephanie Laurens was born on 14 August 1953 in Sri Lanka. When she was 5, her family moved to Melbourne, where she was raised ...

– ''A Gentleman's Honor'' * Di Morrissey – ''Barra Creek'' * Candice R. Proctor – ''Beyond Sunrise'' * Meredith Webber – ''Outback Encounter''

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Max Barry Max Barry (born 18 March 1973) is an Australian author. He also maintains a blog on various topics, including politics. When he published his first novel, ''Syrup'', he spelled his name "Maxx", but subsequently has used "Max". Barry is also the ...

– ''

Jennifer Government ''Jennifer Government'' is a 2003 dystopian novel by Max Barry, set in an alternate history (fiction), alternate reality where most nations in the Americas and Oceania are dominated by powerful corporations and corporate libertarianism coalitio ...

'' *

K. A. Bedford Kenneth Adrian Bedford, better known under the pseudonym of K. A. Bedford, is an Australian writer of science fiction. Biography Bedford was born in Fremantle, Western Australia. In 2003 Bedford's first novel, ''Orbital Burn'', was released in ...

– ''Orbital Burn'' * K. J. Bishop – ''

The Etched City ''The Etched City'' is the first novel (and the only one published to date) of the Australian science-fiction writer K. J. Bishop. It was published for the first time by Prime Books in 2003 (cover art done by Bishop herself), then by Tor/Pan M ...

'' *

Russell Blackford Russell Blackford (born 1954) is an Australian writer, philosopher, and literary critic. Early life and education Blackford was born in Sydney, and grew up in the city of Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, New South Wales. After graduating with ...

– ''An Evil Hour'' *

Trudi Canavan Trudi Canavan (born 23 October 1969) is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies '' The Black Magician'' and '' Age of the Five''. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic de ...

– ''The High Lord'' * Bill Congreve – '' Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural'' * Cecilia Dart-Thornton – '' The Battle of Evernight'' *

Sara Douglass Sara Warneke (2 July 1957 – 27 September 2011), better known by her pen name Sara Douglass, was an Australian fantasy writer who lived in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a recipient of the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel. Biography A great ...

– ''God's Concubine'' *

Jennifer Fallon Jennifer Fallon (born 1959) is an Australian author of fantasy and science fiction. She is also a businesswoman, trainer and business consultant. Jennifer has a master's degree from the Creative Arts faculty of QUT. A computer trainer and appli ...

** '' Eye of the Labyrinth'' ** ''Lord of the Shadows'' * Lian Hearn – '' Grass for His Pillow'' *

Ian Irvine Ian Irvine (born 1950) is an Australian fantasy and eco- thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries a ...

– ''

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'' *

Victor Kelleher Victor Kelleher (born 1939) is an Australian writer. Kelleher was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelle ...

– ''Born of the Sea'' *

Glenda Larke Glenda Larke, born Glenyce Larke, is an Australian writer. Biography Larke grew up in Western Australia. She obtained a degree in history and a diploma in education at University of Western Australia and has taught English in Australia, Vienna ...

– ''The Aware'' *

Fiona McIntosh Fiona McIntosh (born 1960) is an English-born Australian author of adult and children's books. She has also written under the pen name Lauren Crow. Early life and education Fiona McIntosh was born in Brighton, England, in 1960. As a child sh ...

– ''Myrren's Gift'' *

Anthony O'Neill Anthony O'Neill is an Australian fiction novelist. Early life O'Neill was born in Melbourne in 1964. His father was a policeman and his mother, from whom he inherited a 'rich strain of Scottish blood', was a stenographer. Educated at the Christia ...

– ''The Lamplighter'' * Kate Orman – ''Blue Box'' * Tony Shillitoe – ''Freedom'' *

Kim Wilkins Kim Wilkins (born 22 December 1966) is an Australian writer of popular fiction based in Brisbane, Queensland. She is the author of more than twenty-five mass-market novels, including her debut horror novel, ''The Infernal'' (1997), which won Au ...

– ''The Autumn Castle'' * Sean Williams and Shane Dix – ''Heirs of Earth''

Drama

* Mireille Juchau – ''White Gifts'' *

Hannie Rayson Hannie Rayson (born 1957) is a multi-award-winning Australian playwright and newspaper columnist. Biography Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College o ...

– ''Inheritance'' *

Henri Szeps Henri Szeps () (born October 2, 1943), also spelled Henry Szeps, is a Swiss-born Australian character actor of theatre and television. He has also featured in films and worked in voice roles, and has worked in productions in the United Kingdom. ...

– ''One Life, Two Journeys'' *

David Williamson David Keith Williamson (born 1942) is an Australian playwright, who has also written screenplays and teleplays. He became known in the early 1970s with his political comic drama '' Don's Party'', and other well-known plays include '' The Clu ...

– ''Birthrights''

Poetry

Judith Beveridge Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. S ...

– ''Wolf Notes'' *

Laurie Duggan Laurence James Duggan (born 1949), known as Laurie Duggan, is an Australian poet, editor, and translator. Life Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Sc ...

– ''

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'' *

Stephen Edgar Stephen Edgar (born 1951) is an Australian poet, editor and indexer. Background and education Edgar was born in 1951 in Sydney, where he attended the prestigious Sydney Technical High School. After time spent living in London, he later return ...

– ''Lost in the Foreground'' *

Clive James Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.John Kinsella – ''Peripheral Light''

Non-fiction

* Fiona Capp – ''That Oceanic Feeling'' *

Inga Clendinnen Inga Vivienne Clendinnen, (; 17 August 1934 – 8 September 2016) was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic. Her work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was an authority on Aztec civili ...

– ''Dancing with Strangers'' * Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford – ''Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area'' * David Hollinsworth – ''They Took the Children'' *

Stuart Macintyre Stuart Forbes Macintyre (21 April 1947 – 22 November 2021) was an Australian historian, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne from 1999 to 2008. He was voted one of Australia's most influential historians. Early lif ...

and Anna Clark – ''The History Wars'' * Peter Robb – ''A Death in Brazil''

Biographies

Graeme Blundell Graeme Blundell (born 7 August 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer, playwright, lyricist and biographer. Early life Blundell was born on 7 April 1945 in Melbourne; he grew up in the suburb of Clifton Hill. He was educated ...

– ''King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy'' * Lorraine Day – ''Gordon of Dingley Dell: The Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870): Poet and Horseman'' *

Edward Duyker Edward Duyker (born 21 March 1955) is an Australian historian, biographer and author born in Melbourne. Edward Duyker's books include several ethno-histories – ''Tribal Guerrillas'' (1987), ''The Dutch in Australia'' (1987) and ''Of the Star ...

– ''Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834)'' *

Greg Growden Greg Growden (1959/1960 – 14 November 2020) was an Australian sports journalist, author and biographer. Life Growden was born in Adelaide, the son of Port Adelaide Football Club player Kevin Growden. The family moved to a rice farm at Coleamba ...

– ''The Snowy Baker Story'' *

– ''Abraham Lincoln'' *

Jonathan King Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King; 6 December 1944) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He first came to prominence in 1965 when "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", a song that he wrote and sang while still an undergraduate, ...

– ''Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell'' * Garry Linnell – ''Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett'' *

Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secu ...

– ''Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna'' * Nicholas Thomas – ''Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook'' * Anne Whitehead – ''Bluestocking in Patagonia''

Awards and honours

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* 16 March – Susan McGowan, poet (born

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Moment magnitude scale, Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 9 – The "Mud March (suffragists), Mud March", the ...

in Edinburgh, Scotland) * 18 March – Julie Lewis, short story writer (born

1925 Events January * January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini m ...

) * 30 March –

Nick Enright Nicholas Paul Enright AM (22 December 1950 – 30 March 2003) was an Australian dramatist, playwright and theatre director. Early life Enright was born on 22 December 1950 to a prosperous professional Catholic family in East Maitland, New So ...

, playwright and screenwriter (born

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...

) * 2 April – Joan Phipson, writer for children and young adults (born

1912 This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15. In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skippin ...

) * 20 April – Bill Wannan, editor (born

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 * ...

) * 1 May – Stephen Estaban Kelen, dramatist (born

in Budapest, Hungary) * 28 June –

Clem Christesen Clement Byrne Christesen (28 October 1911 – 28 June 2003) was the founder of the Australian literary magazine '' Meanjin''. He served as the magazine's editor from 1940 until 1974. Biography Early years Clement Byrne Christesen was born and ...

, poet and founding editor of ''Meanjin'' (born

1911 Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 m ...

) * 30 June –

Oriel Gray Oriel Holland Bennett (26 March 1920 – 30 June 2003) known by pen name Oriel Gray, was an Australian dramatist, playwright and screenwriter who wrote from the 1940s to 1990s. The major themes of her work were gender equality and "social and po ...

, playwright and screenwriter (born

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its ow ...

) * 23 November – Hesba Brinsmead, writer for children (born

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

)

References

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21st-century Australian literature 2003 in literature

Events

Major publications

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See also

References