2010 in Australian literature


2010 in Australian literature


This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2010.

Events

  • 26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours List.
  • February – The "Australian Book Review" magazine conducted a poll of its readers and announces that Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is Australia's favourite novel.
  • 22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel Truth becoming the first crime novel to do so.

Major publications

Literary fiction

  • Jon Bauer – Rocks in the Belly
  • Carmel Bird – Child of the Twilight
  • Ashley Hay – The Body in the Clouds
  • Anita Heiss – Manhattan Dreaming
  • Toni Jordan – Fall Girl
  • Amanda Lohrey – Reading Madame Bovary (short story collection)
  • Roger McDonald – When Colts Ran
  • Fiona McGregor – Indelible Ink
  • Monica McInerney – At Home with the Templetons
  • D.B.C. Pierre – Lights Out in Wonderland
  • Jessica Rudd – Campaign Ruby
  • Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
  • Chris Womersley – Bereft

Children's and Young Adult fiction

  • Alexandra Adornetto – Halo
  • Mem Fox – Let's Count Goats!
  • Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice
  • Alison Lester – Noni the Pony
  • Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher
  • Melina Marchetta – The Piper's Son
  • Garth Nix – Lord Sunday
  • Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay

Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • Trudi Canavan – The Ambassador's Mission
  • Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate
  • Greg Egan – Zendegi
  • Fiona McIntosh – King's Wrath
  • Sean McMullen – "Eight Miles"
  • Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters
  • Scott Westerfeld – Behemoth
  • Sean Williams
    • The Force Unleashed II
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance

Crime and Mystery

  • John Birmingham – After America
  • Honey Brown – The Good Daughter
  • Peter Corris – Torn Apart
  • Garry Disher – Wyatt
  • Kathryn Fox – Death Mask
  • Kerry Greenwood – Dead Man's Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
  • Katherine Howell – Cold Justice
  • Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road
  • Colleen McCullough – Naked Cruelty
  • Geoff McGeachin – The Diggers Rest Hotel
  • Tara Moss – The Blood Countess
  • Malla Nunn – Let the Dead Men Lie
  • Leigh Redhead – Thrill City
  • Michael Robotham – Bleed for Me
  • Angela Savage – The Half-Child
  • David Whish-Wilson – Line of Sight

Poetry

  • Christopher Kelen – The Whole Forest Dancing: Poems on Four Legs in the Morning
  • Les Murray – Taller When Prone
  • Dorothy Porter – Love Poems
  • Peter Porter – The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems
  • Thomas Shapcott – Parts of Us
  • John Tranter – Starlight: 150 Poems
  • Mark Tredinnick – Fire Diary

Biography

  • Blanche d'Alpuget – Hawke: The Prime Minister
  • Jeff Apter – Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers
  • Jim Davidson – A Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock
  • Malcolm Fraser & Margaret Simons – Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
  • Rob Mundle – Bligh: Master Mariner
  • Anne Pender – One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries
  • Mark Logue & Peter Conradi – The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

  • 15 March — Patricia Wrightson, author (born 1921)
  • 23 April — Peter Porter, author (born 1929)
  • 29 May — Randolph Stow, author (died in England)(born 1935)
  • 9 July — Jessica Anderson, author (born 1916)
  • 19 July — Jon Cleary, author (born 1917)
  • 8 September — Donald Horne, author (born 1921)
  • 6 October — David Rowbotham, author (born 1924)
  • 14 November — Bobbi Sykes, poet and author (born 1943)
  • 14 December — Ruth Park, author (born 1917)

See also

  • 2010 in Australia
  • 2010 in literature
  • 2010 in poetry
  • List of years in Australian literature
  • List of years in literature
  • List of Australian literary awards
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References


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