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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.


Major publications


Literary fiction

* Tony Birch – '' The White Girl'' * David Brooks – ''The Grass Library'' * Steven Carroll – ''The Year of the Beast'' *
Melanie Cheng Melanie Cheng is an Australian doctor and author of ''Australia Day'' (2017) and two novels, ''The Burrow (novel), The Burrow'' (2024) and ''Room for a Stranger'' (2019). Cheng draws upon her biracial, Chinese-Australian heritage as well as her ...
– ''Room for a Stranger'' *
Peggy Frew Peggy Frew (born in1976) is an Australian novelist. Background Frew was born in 1976 and grew up in Melbourne, Australia and attended RMIT University. Works Frew's writing often explores relationships between women within an Australian se ...
– ''Islands'' *
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 ...
– ''Minotaur'' *
John Hughes John Hughes may refer to: Arts and Entertainment Literature *John Hughes (poet) (1677–1720), English poet *John Hughes (1790–1857), English author *John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet *John Hughes (writer) (born 1961), Australian au ...
– ''No One'' * Anna Krien – ''Act of Grace'' *
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 ...
– ''The Place on Dalhousie'' * Andrew McGahan – ''The Rich Man's House'' (posthumous) *
Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Perhaps best known for his 1982 novel ''The Plains'', he has won acclaim for his distinctive prose and exploration of memory, identity and ...
– ''A Season on Earth'' * Favel Parrett – '' There Was Still Love'' *
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 ...
– ''Bruny'' * Philip Salom – ''The Returns'' *
Carrie Tiffany Carrie Tiffany is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger. Biography Tiffany was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia. In her ...
– ''Exploded View'' * Lucy Treloar – ''Wolfe Island'' *
Christos Tsiolkas Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and t ...
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Tara June Winch Tara June Winch (born 2 December 1983) is an Australian writer. She is the 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her book '' The Yield''. Biography Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia on 2 December 1983. He ...
– '' The Yield'' *
Charlotte Wood Charlotte Wood (born 1965) is an Australian novelist. ''The Australian'' newspaper described Wood as "one of our ustralia'smost original and provocative writers". Early life and education Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. She has a Ph ...
– '' The Weekend''


Short stories

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Debra Adelaide Debra Adelaide (born 1958) is an Australian novelist, writer and academic. She teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney. Biography Adelaide was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sutherland Shire. A contemporary of write ...
– ''Zebra: And Other Stories'' *
Yumna Kassab Yumna Kassab is an Australian novelist. She was appointed the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature for 2024. Career Yumna Kassab was born and grew up at Parramatta. She spent two years of her childhood in Lebanon with her family. Afte ...
– ''The House of Youssef'' * Josephine Rowe – '' Here Until August''


Children's and young adult fiction

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Mem Fox Merrion Frances "Mem" Fox AM (; born 5 March 1946) is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy. Fox has been semi-retired since 1996, but she still writes and gives seminars. She lives in Adelaide ...
– '' The Tiny Star'' * Helena Fox – ''How It Feels to Float'' * Will Kostakis – ''Monuments'' * Tania McCartney – ''Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures'' * Meg McKinlay – ''Catch a Falling Star'' *
Bruce Pascoe Bruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. Pascoe identifies as Abor ...
– ''Young Dark Emu'' * Holden Sheppard – ''Invisible Boys'' * Vikki Wakefield – ''This is How We Change the Ending''


Crime

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Matthew Condon Matthew Condon (born 1962) is a prize-winning Australian writer and journalist. Biography Educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany, he is the author of ten novels and short story collections, includin ...
– ''The Night Dragon'' * Pip Drysdale – ''The Strangers We Know'' * Candice Fox – ''Gone By Midnight'' * Nick Gadd – ''Death of a Typographer'' *
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 ...
– ''Dead Man Switch'' * Dave Warner – ''River of Salt'' * Christian White – '' The Wife and the Widow''


Science fiction

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John Birmingham John Birmingham (born 7 August 1964) is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'', the ''Axis of Time'' trilogy, and the well-received space opera series, the ''Cruel Stars'' trilogy. ...
– ''The Cruel Stars'' * Claire G. Coleman – '' The Old Lie'' *
Greg Egan Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, and the Lo ...
** ''
The Best of Greg Egan ''The Best of Greg Egan'' is a collection of science fiction stories by Australian writer Greg Egan, published by Subterranean Press in 2019. The collection contains 20 stories which were published in a variety of original publications. It is ...
'' ** '' Perihelion Summer'' *
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 ...
– '' Angel Mage''


Poetry

* Louise Crisp – ''Yuiquimbiang'' * Zenobia Frost – ''After the Demolition'' *
Charmaine Papertalk Green Charmaine Papertalk Green (born 1962) is an Indigenous Australian poet. As Charmaine Green she works as a visual and installation artist. Green is a Yamaji woman, born in 1962 at Eradu near Geraldton in Western Australia. On International W ...
– ''Nganajungu Yagu'' * L. K. Holt – ''Birth Plan'' *
Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Perhaps best known for his 1982 novel ''The Plains'', he has won acclaim for his distinctive prose and exploration of memory, identity and ...
– ''Green Shadows and Other Poems'' *
Pi O П. O. (or Pi O, born 1951) is a Greek-Australian, working class, anarchist poet. Biography Born in Katerini, Greece, П. O. came to Australia with his family around 1954. After time in Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, the fam ...
– ''Heide''


Non-fiction

* Jane Caro – ''Accidental Feminists'' *
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 ...
, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) – ''Growing Up African in Australia'' * Stan Grant ** ''Australia Day'' ** ''On Identity'' * Nicholas Hasluck – ''Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir'' *
Jess Hill Jesse Terrill Hill (January 20, 1907 – August 31, 1993) was an American athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator who was best known for his tenure as a coach and athletic director at the University of Southern California (USC). His ...
– ''See What You Made Me Do'' *
Jacqueline Kent Jacqueline Frances Kent (born 1947) is an Australian journalist, biographer and non-fiction writer. She is also known as Jacquie Kent, the name she used when writing young adult fiction in the 1990s and sometimes writes as Frances Cook. Career ...
– ''Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook'' * Caro Llewellyn – '' Diving into Glass'' * Emily Maguire – ''This is What a Feminist Looks Like'' * Bianca Nogrady (editor) – ''The Best Australian Science Writing 2019'' *
Christina Thompson Christina Thompson is best known for her book ''Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia'', which won the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Career Christina Thompson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up outsi ...
– ''Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia''


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

* 20 January –
Mudrooroo Colin Thomas Johnson (21 August 1938 – 2019), better known by his nom de plume Mudrooroo, and also published under the names Mudrooroo Narogin and Mudrooroo Nyoongah, was an Australian novelist, poet, essayist and playwright. He is best known ...
, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
) * 1 February – Andrew McGahan, novelist (born
1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
) * 4 March –
Les Carlyon Leslie Allen Carlyon (10 June 1942 – 4 March 2019) was an Australian writer and newspaper editor. Early life Carlyon began his career in journalism with ''The Herald and Weekly Times'' as a cadet on the '' Sun News-Pictorial'' (now the '' ...
, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (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 ...
) * 13 March –
Edmund Capon Edmund George Capon (11 June 1940 – 13 March 2019) was an art scholar specialising in Chinese art. He was director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1978 to 2011. He was also the chair of soccer club Sydney FC from 2006 to 2007. E ...
, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London) * 15 March – Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria) * 22 March –
Jack Absalom John Henry Absalom (11 November 1927 – 22 March 2019) was an Australian artist, author and adventurer. Life and death John Henry Absalom, colloquially to everyone as 'Jack', was born in Port Augusta, South Australia. He grew up along the ...
, artist, author and adventurer (born
1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the BBC, British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, John Reith becomes the first ...
) * 29 April – Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
) * 19 May – John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (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 ...
) * 1 June –
Christobel Mattingley Christobel Rosemary Mattingley (26 October 1931 – 1 June 2019) was an Australian author of books for children and adults. Her book ''Rummage'' won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers and Children's Book of the Year Award ...
, writer for children and young adults (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 ...
) * 13 July –
Kerry Reed-Gilbert Kerry Reed-Gilbert (24 October 1956 – 13 July 2019) was an Australian poet, author, collector, editor, educator, a champion of Indigenous writers and an Aboriginal rights activist. She was a Wiradjuri woman. Early life Born on 24 October 1956 ...
, poet and author (born
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
) * 21 July – ** Laurie Hergenhan, literary scholar (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 ...
) **
Ann Moyal Ann Veronica Helen Moyal (née Hurley, formerly Cousins and Mozley; 23 February 1926 – 21 July 2019) was an Australian historian known for her work in the history of science. She held academic positions at the Australian National University (A ...
, historian of science (born
1926 In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the ...
) * 10 September –
Hal Colebatch Sir Harry Pateshall Colebatch (29 March 1872 – 12 February 1953) was a long-serving figure in Western Australian politics. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for nearly 20 years, the twelfth Premier of Western Aus ...
, poet and novelist (born
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...
) *30 October – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born
1939 This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Ger ...
) *24 November –
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 2019.1939 This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Ger ...
)


See also

* 2019 in Australia *
2019 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2019. Events *February 2 – The family of the U.S. fiction writer J. D. Salinger confirm in an interview published in the U.K. newspaper ''The Guardian'' that he l ...
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2019 in poetry Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2019 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, beside ...
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List of years in Australian literature This page gives a chronological list of years in Australian literature (descending order), with notable publications and events listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers the period of European settlement of ...
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List of years in literature This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern liter ...
* List of Australian literary awards


References

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