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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021.


Major publications


Literary fiction

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Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, '' The White Tiger'', won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Early life and education Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai), the capital of Tamil Nadu, o ...
– ''Amnesty'' * Michael Mohammed Ahmad – ''The Other Half of You'' * Larissa Behrendt – '' After Story'' * Steven Carroll – ''O'' *
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 ...
– ''Scary Monsters'' * Jennifer Down – '' Bodies of Light'' * Briohny Doyle – ''Echolalia'' * Max Easton – ''The Magpie Wing'' * Nikki Gemmell – ''The Ripping Tree'' *
Anita Heiss Anita Marianne Heiss (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator. She is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her memb ...
– '' Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams'' *
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 ...
– '' Corporal Hitler's Pistol'' * John Kinsella – ''Pushing Back'' * Emily Maguire – ''Love Objects'' * Jennifer Mills – ''The Airways'' * Alice Pung – ''One Hundred Days'' *
Nicolas Rothwell Nicolas Rothwell is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for ''The Australian'' newspaper. He is also an award-winning writer with two novels and several works of non-fiction to his name. Background Rothwell is the child of Cze ...
– ''
Red Heaven ''Red Heaven'' is a studio album by the American band Throwing Muses, released in 1992. It peaked at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart. Throwing Muses promoted the album by touring with the Flaming Lips. "Firepile" was released as a single. Produ ...
'' * Claire Thomas – ''The Performance'' *
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 ...
– ''7 ½'' * Michael Winkler – '' Grimmish''


Short story collections

* Tony Birch – ''Dark as Last Night''


Children's and young adult fiction

* Felicity Castagna – ''Girls in Boys' Cars'' * Sophie Gonzales – ''Only Mostly Devastated'' * Katrina Nannestad – ''Rabbit, Soldier, Angel Thief''


Crime and mystery

* Tim Ayliffe – ''The Enemy Within'' * Mark Brandi – ''The Others'' * B. M. Carroll – ''You Had It Coming'' * Candice Fox – '' The Chase'' * Helen FitzGerald – ''Ash Mountain'' *
Jack Heath Jack Heath is an Australian writer of fiction for children and adults who is best known for the Danger, Scream, Liars and Timothy Blake series. He has been shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year Award, CBCA Notable Book Award, Nottinghamshire ...
– ''Kill Your Brother'' * Charlotte McConaghy – ''Once There Were Wolves'' *
Debra Oswald Debra Oswald (born 1959) is an Australian writer for film, television, stage, radio, fiction and children's fiction. In 2008 her ''Stories in the Dark'' won Best Play in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. She created and was head writer of th ...
– ''The Family Doctor'' * Kyle Perry – ''The Deep'' *
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, ...
– ''When You Are Mine''


Science fiction and fantasy

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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 ...
– ''The 22 Murders of Madison May'' *
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 Book of All Skies'' * Shelley Parker-Chan – '' She Who Became the Sun'' * Angela Slatter – ''All the Murmuring Bones'' *
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 Five Star Republic'' with Andrew Enstice


Poetry

* Eunice Andrada – ''
Take Care ''Take Care'' is the second studio album by Canadian rapper Drake (musician), Drake. It was released on November 15, 2011, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records. The album features guest appearances from the Weekn ...
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Evelyn Araluen Evelyn Araluen is an Australian poet and literary editor. She won the 2022 Stella Prize with her first book, '' Dropbear''. Early life Araluen is an Aboriginal Australian of the Bundjalung people, born on Dharug land. Career Araluen's po ...
– '' Dropbear'' * Pam Brown – ''Stasis Shuffle'' *
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 ...
– ''How Decent Folk Behave'' * Andy Jackson – ''Human Looking'' * Elfie Shiosaki – ''
Homecoming Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back alumni or other former members of an organization to celebrate the organization's existence. It is a tradition in many high schools, colleges, and churches in the United States and Canada. United St ...
'' * Maria Takolander – ''Trigger Warning''


Non-fiction

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Randa Abdel-Fattah Randa Abdel-Fattah (; born 1979) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is an advocate for Palestinian people and human rights in general, and much of her work focuses on identity and what it means to be Muslim in Australia. H ...
– ''Coming of Age in the War on Terror'' *
Julia Banks Julia Helen Banks is an Australian lawyer and politician. Elected as the member for Chisholm in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2016 federal election, Banks was the only candidate for the governing Liberal-National Coalition ...
– ''Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs'' * Alison Croggon – ''Monsters: A reckoning'' *
Jaivet Ealom Jaivet Ealom is a Toronto-based author, former refugee, refugee advocate, and the only person known to have escaped from Manus Island Detention Centre in Papua New Guinea. Early life Ealom was born in Myanmar where he faced persecution, as a Roh ...
– '' Escape From Manus'' *
Mehreen Faruqi Mehreen Saeed Faruqi (born 8 July 1963) is a Pakistani-born Australian politician and former engineer who has been a federal Senator for New South Wales since 15 August 2018, representing the Greens. She was chosen to fill a casual vacancy c ...
– ''Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud'' *
Ross Garnaut Ross Gregory Garnaut (born 28 July 1946, Perth) is an Australian economist, currently serving as a vice-chancellor's fellow and professorial fellow of economics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of numerous academic publications ...
– ''Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession'' * Stan Grant – ''With the Falling of the Dusk'' * Dale Kent – ''The Most I Could Be'' * Scott Ludlam – ''Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next'' * Mark McKenna – ''Return to Uluru'' * Henry Reynolds – ''Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement'' * Jeff Sparrow – ''Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating'' * Corey Tutt and
Blak Douglas __NOTOC__ Blak Douglas, formerly known as Adam Douglas Hill, is an Aboriginal Australian artist and musician. he is based in Sydney, New South Wales. Early life and education He is a Dhungatti man, with Irish, Scots, English, and German anc ...
(illustrator) – ''The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples''


Collected essays

* Chelsea Watego – ''Another Day in the Colony''


Awards and honours

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


Lifetime achievement


Literary


Fiction


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Children and Young Adult


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Crime and Mystery


National


Poetry


Drama


Non-Fiction


Deaths

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1 May Events Pre-1600 * 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor. * 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches. * 1169 &nd ...
Kate Jennings Catherine Ruth Jennings (20 May 1948 – 1 May 2021) was an Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist. Biography Born at Temora, Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. She attended the University of Sydney in the la ...
, poet and writer (died in the United States) (b.
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...
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25 April Events Pre-1600 *404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion. * 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
Valerie Parv, romance novelist (b.
1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...
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16 May Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. * 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. *13 ...
Vera Deacon, historian (b.
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 ...
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16 September Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council. *1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers. 1601–1900 * 1620 – Pilgrims set sail for V ...
Tim Thorne, poet (b.
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...
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22 November Events Pre-1600 * 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. * 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Franki ...
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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 ...
, historian (b.
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 ...
)Celebrated historians Babette Smith, Stuart Macintyre have died
** Doug MacLeod, children's writer, poet, screenwriter and playwright (b.
1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...
) ** Babette Smith, historian (b.
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 ...
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26 November Events Pre-1600 * 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her nephew from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. * 1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dy ...
Desmond O'Grady, journalist and author (died in Rome) (b.
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 ...
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26 December Events Pre-1600 * 887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia. * 1481 – Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of B ...
Paul B. Kidd, radio broadcaster and true crime writer (b.
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 ...
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See also

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2021 in Australia The following lists events that happened during 2021 in Australia. Incumbents * Monarchy of Australia, Monarch – Elizabeth II * Governor-General of Australia, Governor-General – David Hurley * Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minist ...
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2021 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021. Events *January 1 – British writer and illustrator Anthony Browne is appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year H ...
* 2021 in poetry *
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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Australian literature by year Years of the 21st century in Australia 2021 in literature