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Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2020
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020.
Major publications[edit]
Literary fiction[edit]
Children's and young adult fiction[edit]
- 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 Gonzalesv 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
Science Fiction and Fantasy[edit]
Non-fiction[edit]
Awards and honours[edit]
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement[edit]
Literary[edit]
Fiction[edit]
National[edit]
Children and Young Adult[edit]
National[edit]
Crime and Mystery[edit]
National[edit]
Science fiction[edit]
Award
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Category
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Author
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Title
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Publisher
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Ditmar Award[19]
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Novel
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Gillian Polack
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The Year of the Fruit Cake
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IFWG Publishing
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Best Short Fiction
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Rivqa Rafael
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"Whom My Soul Loves"
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Non-Fiction[edit]
- 1 January – Alexander Frater, travel writer and journalist (born 1937 in Vanuatu)[26]
- 6 January – Timoshenko Aslanides, poet (born 1943)[27]
- 20 January – Steph Bowe, young adult novelist and blogger (born 1994)[28]
- 1 April – Bruce Dawe, poet (born 1930)[29]
- 14 May – Judith Clarke, writer for children and teenagers (born 1943)[30]
- 5 June – Andrew Riemer, literary critic and author (born 1936)[31]
- 10 June – Jesse Blackadder, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1964)[32]
- 7 July – Elizabeth Harrower, novelist (born 1928)[33]
- 10 September – Barbara Ker Wilson, English-born Australian editor and novelist (born 1929)[34]
- 29 September – Ania Walwicz, poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist (born 1951 in Poland)[35]
- 6 November – Gerald Stone, journalist (born 1933 in USA)[36]
- 14 November – Greg Growden, sports journalist, author and biographer (born 1959/60)[37]
- 9 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator (born 1941)[38]
- 12 December – Wendy Brennan, romantic fiction writer (co-wrote with husband Frank Brennan as Emma Darcy) (born 1940)[39]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Day wins Patrick White Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 30 November 2020. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ Convery, Stephanie (14 April 2020). "Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Christos Tsiolkas' 'Damascus' wins best fiction at VPLAs". Books+Publishing. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
- ^ "'A Treacherous Country' wins 2020 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ a b c ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2020"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin for 'The Yield'". Books+Publishing. 16 July 2020. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 December 2020. Archived from the original on 9 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Evans, Kate Evans (26 April 2020). "Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards". ABC News. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ a b Kim, Sharnie (4 September 2020). "Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards". ABC News. Archived from the original on 4 September 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 October 2020. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ "Davitt Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 28 September 2020. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Ned Kelly Awards 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 October 2020. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ "2020 Ditmar Winners". Locus Online. 21 September 2020. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "'Tiberius with a Telephone' wins National Biography Award". Books+Publishing. 31 August 2020. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. 25 March 2020. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "NSW Community and Regional History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "General History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award". Books+Publishing. 7 May 2020. Archived from the original on 7 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "Alexander Frater, award-winning author whose book Chasing the Monsoon became a classic work of Anglo-Indian literature". The Telegraph. 27 March 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "Timoshenko Aslanides". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ Carmody, Broede (21 January 2020). "Great human': Tributes flow for YA author Steph Bowe". Sydney Morning-Herald.
- ^ Romei, Stephen (2 April 2020). "Australian poet Bruce Dawe dies, aged 90". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ "Vale Judith Clarke". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ "Andrew Peter Riemer – Death Notice". The Sydney Morning Herald. 13 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ Moran, Robert. "Award-winning author Jesse Blackadder dies, aged 56". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ "Obituary - Elizabeth Harrower - Obituaries Australia". oa.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ "Barbara Ker Wilson". My Tributes. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Ania Walwicz Death Notice - Melbourne, Victoria | The Age". tributes.theage.com.au. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ Idato, Michael (6 November 2020). "60 minutes trailblazer and legendary TV producer Gerald Stone dead". The Age. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ FitzSimons, Peter (14 November 2020). "Vale Greg Growden, you will be long remembered". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ "Mungo MacCallum". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Ripley, Amy (27 January 2021). "Mills & Boon author sold 71 million copies worldwide". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 February 2022.