Английская Википедия:2020 in Australian literature

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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020.

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Patrick Allington, Rise & Shine
• Robbie Arnott, The Rain Heron
• James Bradley, Ghost Species
• Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
• Jon Doust, Return Ticket
• Chris Flynn, Mammoth
• Anna Goldsworthy, Melting Moments
• Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
• Tom Keneally, The Dickens Boy
• Sofie Laguna, Infinite Splendours
• Bem Le Hunte, Elephants with Headlights
• Carol Lefevre, Murmurations
• Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
• Laura Jean McKay, The Animals in That Country
• Mirandi Riwoe, Stone Sky Gold Mountain
• Ronnie Scott, The Adversary
• Craig Silvey, Honeybee
• Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words
• Daniel Davis Wood, At the Edge of the Solid World
• Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock

Children's and young adult fiction

• K.M. Allan, Blackbirch: The Beginning
• Sarah Allen, Busy Beaks
• Davina Bell, The End of the World Is Bigger than Love
• Danielle Binks, The Year the Maps Changed
• Belinda Crawford, Cold Between Stars
• Katya de Becerra, Oasis
• Alex Dyson, When It Drops
• Sarah Epstein, Deep Water
• Alison Evans, Euphoria Kids
• Zana Fraillon, The Lost Soul Atlas
• Jane Godwin, When Rain Turns to Snow
• Kate Gordon, Aster's Good, Right Things
• Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated
• Bernadette Green, Who's Your Real Mum?
• Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, No! Never!
• Eliza Henry-Jones, How to Grow a Family Tree
• Gina Inverarity, Snow
• Kay Kerr, Please Don't Hug Me
• Will Kostakis
  • Rebel Gods
  • The Greatest Hit
• Jeremy Lachlan, Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls
• Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep
• Anna McGregor, Anemone Is Not The Enemy
• Heidi McKinnon, There's No Such Thing
• Kate McMahon, Sea of Gratitude
• Cath Moore, Metal Fish, Falling Snow
• Anna Morgan, Before the Beginning
• Jaclyn Moriarty, The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
• Sally Murphy, Worse Things
• Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves
• Christie Nieman, Where We Begin
• Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
• Poppy Nwosu, Taking Down Evelyn Tait
• Kate O'Donnell, This One is Ours
• Kirli Saunders, Bindi
• Helen Scheuerer, Dawn of Mist
• Astrid Scholte, The Vanishing Deep
• Briony Stewart, We Love You, Magoo
• Shaun Tan, Dog
• Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
• Lisa Walker, The Girl with the Gold Bikini
• Anna Whateley, Peta Lyre's Rating Normal
• Sue Whiting, The Book of Chance
• Bonnie Wynne, The Ninth Sorceress

Crime

• Anne Buist, The Long Shadow
• Garry Disher, Consolation
• Candice Fox, Gathering Dark
• Dervla McTiernan, The Good Turn

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Max Barry, Providence

Poetry

• Laurie Duggan, Homer Street
• Michael Farrell, Family Trees
• Kate Llewellyn, Harbour
• Felicity Plunkett, A Kinder Sea
• Ellen van Neerven
  • Homeland Calling: Words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices (as editor)
  • Throat

Non-fiction

• Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark
• Richard Fidler, The Golden Maze: A History of Prague
• Michael Gawenda, The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Life
• Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth
• John Kinsella, Displaced: A Rural Life
• Michael Gawenda, The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian
• Sophie McNeill, We Can't Say We Didn't Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity
• Brenda Niall, Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
• Caroline Overington, Missing William Tyrrell
• Christopher Pyne, The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble
• Cassandra Pybus, Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
• Miranda Tapsell, Top End Girl
• Robert Tickner, Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion
• Malcolm Turnbull, A Bigger Picture

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

Award	Author
Patrick White Award	Gregory Day

Fiction

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Miles Franklin Literary Award	Fiction	Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin Random House
Prime Minister's Literary Awards	Fiction	Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin Random House
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards		Tara June Winch	The Yield	Penguin Random House
Queensland Literary Awards	Fiction	Mirandi Riwoe	Stone Sky Gold Mountain	University of Queensland Press
Stella Prize		Jess Hill	See What You Made Me Do	Black Inc
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards	Literature	S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack	Counting and Cracking	Belvoir and Co-Curious
	Fiction	Christos Tsiolkas	Damascus	Allen & Unwin

Children and Young Adult

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award	Older Readers	Vikki Wakefield	This Is How We Change the Ending	Text Publishing
	Younger Readers	Pip Harry	The Little Wave	University of Queensland Press
	Picture Book	Chris McKimmie	I Need a Parrot	Ford Street
	Early Childhood	Frances Watts	My Friend Fred	Allen & Unwin
	Eve Pownall Award for Information Books	Bruce Pascoe	Young Dark Emu: A truer history	Magabala Books
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Children's	Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley	Ella and the Ocean	Allen & Unwin
	Young People's	Karen Foxlee	Lenny's Book of Everything	Allen & Unwin
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards	Young Adult Fiction	Helena Fox	How It Feels to Float	Pan Macmillan Australia

Crime and Mystery

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award	Novel	Meg Mundell	The Trespassers	UQP
Ned Kelly Award	Novel	Christian White	The Wife and the Widow	Affirm Press
	First novel	Natalie Conyer	Present Tense	Clan Destine Press

Science fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Ditmar Award	Novel	Gillian Polack	The Year of the Fruit Cake	IFWG Publishing
	Best Short Fiction	Rivqa Rafael	"Whom My Soul Loves"

Non-Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
National Biography Award	Biography	Patrick Mullins	Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon	Scribe Publications
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Patrick Mullins	Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon	Scribe Publications
New South Wales Premier's History Awards	Australian History	James Dunk	Bedlam at Botany Bay	NewSouth Publishing
	Community and Regional History	Callum Clayton-Dixon	Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of Colonial Apocalypse	Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation
	General History	Kate Fullagar	The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire	Yale University Press
Queensland Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Joe Gorman	Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland	University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards	Non-Fiction	Christina Thompson	Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia	HarperCollins

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Anne Elder Award (joint winners)	Cham Zhi Yi	blur by the	Subbed In
	Gareth Sion Jenkins	Recipes for the Disaster	Five Islands Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Peter Boyle	Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness	Vagabond Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards	Charmaine Papertalk Green	Nganajungu Yagu	Cordite

Drama

Award	Category	Author	Title
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards	Script	Kylie Boltin	Missing
		Jacquelin Perske	The Cry, Episode 2
	Play	S. Shakthidharan	Counting and Cracking

Deaths

• 1 January – Alexander Frater, travel writer and journalist (born 1937 in Vanuatu)
• 6 January – Timoshenko Aslanides, poet (born 1943)
• 20 January – Steph Bowe, young adult novelist and blogger (born 1994)
• 1 April – Bruce Dawe, poet (born 1930)
• 14 May – Judith Clarke, writer for children and teenagers (born 1943)
• 5 June – Andrew Riemer, literary critic and author (born 1936)
• 10 June – Jesse Blackadder, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1964)
• 7 July – Elizabeth Harrower, novelist (born 1928)
• 10 September – Barbara Ker Wilson, English-born Australian editor and novelist (born 1929)
• 29 September – Ania Walwicz, poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist (born 1951 in Poland)
• 6 November – Gerald Stone, journalist (born 1933 in USA)
• 14 November – Greg Growden, sports journalist, author and biographer (born 1959/60)
• 9 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator (born 1941)
• 12 December – Wendy Brennan, romantic fiction writer (co-wrote with husband Frank Brennan as Emma Darcy) (born 1940)

See also

• 2020 in Australia
• 2020 in literature
• 2020 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature
• List of Australian literary awards