This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Major publications
Literary fiction
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Robbie Arnott – ''
Limberlost''
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Jessica Au – ''
Cold Enough for Snow''
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Geraldine Brooks – ''
Horse
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Jane Caro – ''The Mother''
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Steven Carroll – ''Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight''
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Shankari Chandran – ''
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'' (winner, 2023
Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the Will (law), will of Miles Franklin ...
)
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Robert Drewe
Robert Duncan Drewe (born 9 January 1943) is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer.
Biography
Robert Drewe was born on 9 January 1943 in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of six, he moved with his family to Perth. He grew up ...
– ''Nimblefoot''
* Katerina Gibson – ''Women I Know'' (winner, 2023
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction)
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Yumna Kassab – ''The Lovers''
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Robert Lukins – ''Loveland''
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Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane (born 1978) is an Australian author, best known for her novel '' The Night Guest'' (2013) and her collections of short stories ''The High Places'' (2016) and '' Highway 13'' (2024). She is a recipient of the Voss Literary Prize, ...
– ''The Sun Walks Down''
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Fiona Kelly McGregor – ''Iris''
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Paddy O'Reilly – ''Other Houses''
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Edwina Preston – ''
Bad Art Mother''
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Craig Sherborne – ''The Grass Hotel''
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Steve Toltz – ''Here Goes Nothing''
Short story collections
* Katerina Gibson – ''
Women I Know''
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Mirandi Riwoe – ''The Burnished Sun''
Crime and mystery
* Shelley Burr – ''Wake''
* Aoife Clifford – ''When We Fall''
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Chris Hammer – ''The Tilt''
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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 ...
– ''
Exiles''
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Sally Hepworth – ''The Soulmate''
* Katherine Kovacic – ''Seven Sisters''
* Tracey Lien – ''All That's Left Unsaid''
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Dervla McTiernan
Dervla McTiernan is an Irish crime novelist.
Early life and career
Dervla McTiernan was born in County Cork, growing up initially in Carrigaline and Douglas before her father's work in the bank took her to Dublin, aged six, and then Limerick. ...
– ''The Murder Rule''
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Michael Robotham – ''Lying Beside You''
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Emma Viskic – ''Those Who Perish''
* Greg Woodland – ''The Carnival is Over''
Science fiction and fantasy
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Eugen Bacon – ''Mage of Fools''
* Grace Chan – ''Every Version of You''
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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 ...
– "
Crisis Actors"
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Sean McMullen – ''Generation Nemesis''
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Jane Rawson – ''A History of Dreams''
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Angela Slatter – ''The Path of Thorns''
Children's and young adult fiction
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Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by
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 ...
– ''11 Words for Love''
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Lian Tanner – ''Rita’s Revenge''
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Gabrielle Wang – ''Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon''
Poetry
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Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken (born 1960) is an Australian poet.
Early life and education
Australian writer Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960. He spent his early childhood with relatives in Thailand, and was educated at a convent in Malaysia, then a school ...
– ''Revenants''
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Boey Kim Cheng – ''The Singer and Other Poems''
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Marion May Campbell – ''Languish''
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Lionel Fogarty – ''Harvest Lingo''
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Lisa Gorton – ''Mirabilia''
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Sarah Holland-Batt
Sarah Holland-Batt (born 1982) is a contemporary Australian poet, critic, and academic.
Early life and education
Born in Southport, Queensland, Sarah Holland-Batt grew up in Australia and Denver, Colorado.
She was educated at the University o ...
– ''
The Jaguar''
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John Kinsella – ''The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)''
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Les Murray – ''Continuous Creation''
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Rae White
Rae White is a Brisbane-based poet and writer. White is non-binary and the founding editor of the online periodical ''#EnbyLife: Journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives''. White's 2017 poetry collection ''Milk Teeth'' won the Thomas ...
– ''Exactly As I Am''
Non-Fiction
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Alison Bashford – ''An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family''
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Debra Dank – ''
We Come With This Place''
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Jo Dyer
Jo Dyer (born 1969) is an Australian theatre and film producer, and director of Adelaide Writers' Week from 2019 to 2022. She is known for the films '' Lucky Miles'' (2007) and '' Girl Asleep'' (2015).
In 2021 she was involved in a legal case ...
– ''Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics''
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Madonna King – ''L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood''
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Louisa Lim – ''Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong''
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Julianne Schultz
Julianne Schultz FAHA (born 1956) is an Australian academic, media manager, author and editor. She was the founding editor of the Australian literary and current affairs journal '' Griffith Review''. She is currently a professor at Griffith ...
– ''The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation''
Memoir
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Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby (born 12 January 1978) is an Australian comedian, writer, author and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. In 2018, their show '' Nanet ...
– ''Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation''
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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 ...
– ''Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On''
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Chloe Hooper
Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author.
Her first novel, '' A Child's Book of True Crime'' (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to repo ...
– ''Bedtime Story''
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Anita Jacoby – ''Secrets Beyond the Screen''
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Wendy McCarthy – ''Don't Be Too Polite, Girls''
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Brenda Niall
Brenda Mary Niall (born 25 November 1930) is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers. Educated at Genazzano FCJ College, in Kew, Victoria, ...
– ''My Accidental Career''
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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 ...
– ''Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here''
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Literary
Fiction
Children and Young Adult
Crime and Mystery
International
National
Poetry
Drama
Non-Fiction
Deaths
* 22 January –
Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...
)
* 5 February –
John Bryson
John Edgar Bryson (July 24, 1943 – May 13, 2025) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician. He served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 2011 until 2012, the 37th person to hold the post since its establishment in 1913. He ...
, writer and lawyer (born
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
)
* 1 March –
Jordie Albiston, poet (born
1961
Events January
* January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union.
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...
)
* 8 March –
Annah Faulkner
Annah Faulkner (1949/1950 – 8 March 2022) was an Australians, Australian novelist.
At the age of five, Faulkner moved with her parents to Papua New Guinea and later lived on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast with her hu ...
, novelist (born 1949/50)
* 19 March –
Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (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 ...
)
* 29 April –
Craig Powell, poet (born
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, events related to World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*Janu ...
)
* 2 June –
Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer (born
1936
Events January–February
* January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House.
* January 28 – Death and state funer ...
)
* 6 June –
Helen Hodgman, novelist (born in Scotland) (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 ...
)
* 26 June –
Frank Moorhouse
Frank Thomas Moorhouse (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer who won major national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, France and t ...
, writer (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 ...
)
* 14 July –
Clem Tisdell, economist (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 ...
)
* 26 July –
David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of
Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the Will (law), will of Miles Franklin ...
(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 ...
)
* 27 July –
Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (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 ...
)
* 3 August
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Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (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 ...
)
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Evan Jones, poet and academic (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 ...
)
* 12 August –
Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
) (born
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...
)
* 29 August –
Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, events related to World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*Janu ...
)
* 20 September –
Peter Yeldham
Peter Alan Yeldham (25 April 1927 – 20 September 2022) was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist whose career spanned five decades.
Biography
Peter Yeldham was born in Gladstone, near Smitht ...
, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (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 ...
)
* 8 October –
Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (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 ...
)
* 17 October –
Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
) (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 ...
)
* 24 November –
Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (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 ...
)
* 2 December
**
Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (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 ...
)
**
Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
)
* 16 December –
Robert Adamson, poet (born
1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 � ...
)
* December –
Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (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, ...
)
See also
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2022 in Australia
The following is a list of events including expected and scheduled events for the year 2022 in Australia.
Incumbents
Monarchy of Australia, Monarch
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2022 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2022.
Events
*1 January
** The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, a ...
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2022 in poetry
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List of years in Australian literature
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