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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2016.


Major publications


Literary fiction

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Melissa Ashley Melissa Ashley (born 1973) is an Australian novelist. At the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, her novel ''The Birdman's Wife'' won the Fiction Book Award. It also received the Australian Booksellers Association Nielsen BookData 2017 Booksellers ...
– ''The Birdman's Wife'' *
Georgia Blain Georgia Frances Elise Blain (12 December 19649 December 2016) was an Australian novelist, journalist and biographer. Biography Born in Sydney in 1964 to journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson (d. 2016) and broadcaster Ellis Blain (d. 1978), ...
– '' Between a Wolf and a Dog'' *
Hannah Kent Hannah Kent (born 1985) is an Australian writer, known for two novels – ''Burial Rites'' (2013) and ''The Good People'' (2016). Her third novel, ''Devotion'', was published in 2021, and a first memoir, ''Always Home, Always Homesick'', in May ...
– ''
The Good People ''The Good People'' is a 2016 historical novel by Australian author Hannah Kent. The novel takes inspiration from the case of the 1826 death of Michael Leahy in Kerry, Ireland. Background While researching her first novel, ''Burial Rites'', ...
'' * Ryan O'Neill – '' Their Brilliant Careers'' *
Heather Rose Heather Rose (born 1964) is an Australian author born in Hobart, Tasmania. She is best known for her novels '' The Museum of Modern Love'', which won the 2017 Stella Prize and the Christina Stead Prize, and ''Bruny'' (2019), which won Best G ...
– '' The Museum of Modern Love'' *
Philip Salom Philip Salom (born 8 August 1950) is an Australian poet and novelist, whose poetry books have drawn widespread acclaim. His 15 collections of poetry and six novels are noted for their originality and expansiveness and surprising differences from ...
– ''Waiting'' * Dominic Smith – ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' * Josephine Wilson – ''
Extinctions Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover. As a species' potential range may be ...
''


Children's and young adult fiction

* Trace Balla – ''Rockhopping'' *
Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. She is the author of over fourteen books for children and adults, notably a short story collection entitled '' For ...
– '' The Patchwork Bike'' *
Georgia Blain Georgia Frances Elise Blain (12 December 19649 December 2016) was an Australian novelist, journalist and biographer. Biography Born in Sydney in 1964 to journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson (d. 2016) and broadcaster Ellis Blain (d. 1978), ...
– ''Special'' * Andy Griffiths ** ''The Tree House Fun Book'' ** ''The 78-Storey Treehouse'' *
Zana Fraillon Zana Fraillon (born 1981) is an Australian writer of fiction for children and young adults based in Melbourne, Australia. Fraillon is known for writing in fiction about human rights abuses and in 2017 she won an Amnesty CILIP Honour fo ...
– ''The Bone Sparrow'' * Tania McCartney – ''Smile/Cry: A Beginner's Book of Feelings'' * Shivaun Plozza – ''Frankie'' *
Richard Roxburgh Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of a number of accolades across film, television, and theatre, including several AFI and AACTA Awards, Logie Awards, and Helpmann Awards. He bega ...
– ''Artie and the Grime Wave'' * Claire Zorn – ''One Would Think the Deep''


Crime

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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 ...
– ''
That Empty Feeling ''That Empty Feeling'' is a 2016 crime fiction novel by Australian writer Peter Corris. It is the 41st novel in Corris' series of works about Cliff Hardy, a fictional private investigator who lives and works in the inner suburbs of Sydney ...
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Candice Fox Candice Fox (born 1985) is an Australian novelist, best known for her crime fiction. She has collaborated with James Patterson on several novels. Early life and education Candice Fox was born in 1985 the western suburbs of Sydney into a larg ...
and
James Patterson James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author. Among his works are the '' Alex Cross'', '' Michael Bennett'', '' Women's Murder Club'', '' Maximum Ride'', '' Daniel X'', '' NYPD Red'', '' Witch & Wizard'', '' Private'' and ...
– ''Never Never'' *
Jane Harper Jane Harper (born 1980) is a Anglo-Celtic Australians, British Australian author known for her Crime fiction, crime novels, including ''The Dry (novel), The Dry'', ''Force of Nature (novel), Force of Nature'' and ''The Lost Man (novel), The Lost ...
– '' The Dry'' * Emily Maguire – '' An Isolated Incident'' * Barry Maitland – ''Slaughter Park'' *
Adrian McKinty Adrian McKinty is a Northern Irish writer of crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction, best known for his 2020 award-winning thriller, ''The Chain'', and the Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He is a winner o ...
– ''Rain Dogs'' *
Jock Serong Jock Serong is an Australian writer. Serong grew up in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs and completed his secondary education at Xavier College in Kew. From years 4-8 he attended Xavier’s Kostka Hall junior campus in Brighton. He graduated fro ...
– '' The Rules of Backyard Cricket'' * David Whish-Wilson – ''Old Scores''


Science fiction and fantasy

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Alison Croggon Alison Croggon (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. Life and career Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Bal ...
– ''The Bone Queen'' *
Juliet Marillier Juliet Marillier (born 7 August 1948) is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy, focusing predominantly on historical fantasy. Biography Juliet Marillier was educated at the University of Otago, where she graduated with a BA in languages and a ...
– ''Den of Wolves'' *
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 Dark Side'' * C. S. Pacat – ''Kings Rising'' * Lian Hearn – ''Emperor of the Eight Islands'' * Angela Slatter – ''Vigil''


Poetry

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Peter Boyle Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. He is known for his character actor roles in film and television and received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. ...
– ''Ghostspeaking'' *
Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. She is the author of over fourteen books for children and adults, notably a short story collection entitled '' For ...
– ''Carrying the World'' * John Kinsella – ''Drowning in Wheat'' * Berndt Sellheim – ''Awake at the Wheel'' * Susan Varga – ''Rupture: Poems 2012–2015''


Drama

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Leah Purcell Leah Maree Purcell (born 14 August 1970) is an Aboriginal Australian stage and film actress, playwright, film director, and novelist. She made her film debut in 1999, appearing in Paul Fenech's ''Somewhere in the Darkness'', which led to rol ...
– '' The Drover's Wife'' * David Morton – '' The Wider Earth''


Biographies

* Deng Thiak Adut with Ben McKelvey – ''Songs of a War Boy: My Story'' *
Julia Baird Julia Baird may refer to: * Julia Baird (teacher) (born 1947), British retired teacher and half-sister of John Lennon * Julia Baird (journalist) (born 1970), Australian journalist {{hndis, Baird, Julia ...
– ''Victoria: The Queen'' *
Jimmy Barnes James Dixon Barnes ( Swan; born 28 April 1956) is an Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music a ...
–'' Working Class Boy'' *
Mark Colvin Mark Colvin (13 March 1952 – 11 May 2017) was an Australian journalist and radio and television broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and worked on most of the flagship current affairs programs. Notably, based in Sydne ...
– ''Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son'' * Suzanne Falkiner – ''Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow'' * Stan Grant – ''Talking to My Country'' * Cory Taylor – '' Dying: A Memoir''


Non-fiction

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Richard Fidler Richard Fidler is an Australian radio presenter and writer. He hosts an hour-long interview program, '' Conversations with Richard Fidler'' on ABC's Radio National, and was a member of the Australian comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars. '' ...
– '' Ghost Empire'' *
Peter FitzSimons Peter John FitzSimons (born 29 June 1961) is an Australian author, journalist, and radio and television presenter. He is a former national representative rugby union player and was the chair of the Australian Republic Movement from 2015 to 20 ...
– ''Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: Why a French town will never forget the Anzacs'' *
Clementine Ford Clementine Ford is an American actress known for her appearance as Molly Kroll on Showtime's ''The L Word''. In April 2009, she joined the cast of the soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' in the role of Mackenzie Browning. She left the s ...
– ''Fight Like A Girl'' *
Helen Garner Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's debut novel, first novel, ''Monkey Grip (novel), Monkey Grip'', published in 1977, immediately established her ...
– '' Everywhere I Look'' * David Hunt – ''True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2'' * Lynne Kelly – ''The Memory Code'' *
Tara Moss Tara Rae Moss (born 2 October 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, documentary maker and presenter, journalist and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival. Biography Moss was born in Victoria, British Columbia, where she attended schoo ...
– ''Speaking Out: A 21st Century Handbook For Women and Girls''


Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.


Lifetime achievement


Literary


Fiction


National


Children and young adult


National


Crime and mystery


National


Science fiction


Poetry


Drama


Non-fiction


Deaths

* 31 January – David Lake, science fiction novelist (born
1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
in India) * 3 February – Dimitris Tsaloumas, poet (born
1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...
in Greece) * 19 February –
Kim Gamble Kim Gamble (13 July 1952 – 19 February 2016) was an Australian illustrator of children's books. He is best known for the ''Tashi'' books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for television. Early life Kim Hunter ...
, illustrator of children's books (born
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...
) * 3 April –
Bob Ellis Robert James Ellis (10 May 1942 – 3 April 2016) was an Australian journalist, screenwriter, playwright, filmmaker, and political commentator. He lived in Sydney with author and screenwriter Anne Brooksbank; they had three children. Early ye ...
, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator (born
1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...
) * 20 April – Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, author, editor and academic (born
1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...
) * 16 May – Gillian Mears, short story writer and novelist (born
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
) * 5 July – Cory Taylor, writer (born
1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
) * 15 July –
Billy Marshall Stoneking William Randolph Marshall (31 August 1947 – 15 July 2016), better known as Billy Marshall Stoneking, was an American-Australian poet, playwright, filmmaker, and teacher. His son C.W. Stoneking is a musician. Childhood and education William Ran ...
, poet, playwright, filmmaker and teacher (born
1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country i ...
in Orlando, Florida) * 4 September – Richard Neville, writer and social commentator (born
1941 The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, wa ...
) * 8 September –
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 ...
, author and historian (born
1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
) * 3 October – Narelle Oliver, award-winning children's author-illustrator, artist and print maker (born
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
) * 19 November –
Margaret Paice Margaret Dawn Paice (1 September 1920 – 19 November 2016) was an Australian children's writer, commercial artist and book illustrator. Early life and education Margaret Dawn Cantle was born in Brisbane, Australia on 1 September 1920, daugh ...
, children's writer and illustrator (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 ...
) * 9 December –
Georgia Blain Georgia Frances Elise Blain (12 December 19649 December 2016) was an Australian novelist, journalist and biographer. Biography Born in Sydney in 1964 to journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson (d. 2016) and broadcaster Ellis Blain (d. 1978), ...
, novelist, journalist and biographer (born
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
) *12 December – **
Anne Deveson Anne Barbara Deveson (19 June 1930 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian writer, broadcaster and filmmaker who also worked in England. Early life Deveson was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. During World War II, her family was evacuated t ...
, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and social commentator (born
1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on J ...
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) **
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 ...
, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died in Manhattan, New York)(born
1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...
)


See also

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2016 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016. Events *March 11 – Jean Martin's ''The Raped Little Runaway'' becomes the first book since 1998 to be banned in the Republic of Ireland by its Censorship of ...
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2016 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 14 – Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, who was released from prison in September 2015, is prevented from leavin ...
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References

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