2003 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2003.
Events
[edit]- Peter Carey and Joan London join the list of authors who have withdrawn from contention for the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. In 2002 Richard Flanagan and Tim Winton also declined to have their books nominated for the prize in protest at the involvement of Forestry Tasmania as a sponsor of the Ten Days on the Island festival at which the award winner is to be announced.[1]
- Members of The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) voted in their Society's 40th anniversary poll to select Australia's favourite book. Tim Winton's Cloudstreet headed the poll followed by The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson.[2]
- Nevil Shute's 1950 novel, A Town Like Alice was included in a BBC-sponsored UK survey of 100 popular novels, but has failed to make a similar Australian list.[3]
Major publications
[edit]Literary fiction
[edit]- Alan Atwood – Burke's Soldier[4]
- Peter Carey – My Life as a Fake
- Brian Castro – Shanghai Dancing
- J. M. Coetzee – Elizabeth Costello
- Julian Davies – The Boy[5]
- Nikki Gemmell – The Bride Stripped Bare
- Peter Goldsworthy – Three Dog Night
- Shirley Hazzard – The Great Fire
- Kathryn Heyman – The Accomplice[6]
- Janette Turner Hospital – Due Preparations for the Plague[7]
- M. J. Hyland – How the Light Gets In[8]
- Annamarie Jagose – Slow Water
- Nada A. Jarrar – Somewhere, Home[9]
- Tom Keneally – The Tyrant's Novel
- Kathy Lette – Dead Sexy[10]
- Colleen McCullough – The Touch
- Nerida Newton – The Lambing Flat
- Elliot Perlman – Seven Types of Ambiguity
- D. B. C. Pierre – Vernon God Little
- Patricia Shaw – The Five Winds[11]
- Sue Woolfe – The Secret Cure[12]
Children's and Young Adult fiction
[edit]- Pamela Allen – Cuthbert's Babies
- Paul Collins – The Earthborn
- Kate Constable – The Waterless Sea
- Marianne Curley – The Dark
- Justin D'Ath – Shaedow Master
- Garry Disher – Eva's Angel
- John Heffernan – GBH
- Melina Marchetta – Saving Francesca
- David Metzenthen – Boys of Blood and Bone
- Jaclyn Moriarty – Finding Cassie Crazy
- Garth Nix
- Emily Rodda – Rowan of the Bukshah
- Janeen Webb – The Silken Road to Samarkand
Crime
[edit]- Kirsty Brooks – The Vodka Dialogue
- Ian Callinan – Appointment at Amalfi
- Jon Cleary – Degrees of Connection
- Peter Corris – Master's Mates
- Michelle de Kretser – The Hamilton Case
- Garry Disher – Kittyhawk Down
- Kerry Greenwood – The Castlemaine Murders: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
- Wayne Grogan – Junkie Pilgrim
- Gabrielle Lord – Lethal Factor
- Barry Maitland – The Verge Practice
- Matthew Reilly – Scarecrow
- Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram
- Michael Robotham – The Suspect
- Steve J. Spears – Murder at the Fortnight
- Peter Temple – White Dog
- Lee Tulloch – The Cutting: A Nullin Mystery
- Robin Wallace-Crabbe – The Forger
Romance
[edit]- Ally Blake – The Wedding Wish
- Lucy Clark – Englishman at Dingo Creek
- Barbara Hannay – A Wedding at Windaroo
- Stephanie Laurens – A Gentleman's Honor
- Di Morrissey – Barra Creek
- Candice R. Proctor – Beyond Sunrise
- Meredith Webber – Outback Encounter
Science Fiction and Fantasy
[edit]- Max Barry – Jennifer Government
- K. A. Bedford – Orbital Burn[13]
- K. J. Bishop – The Etched City
- Russell Blackford – An Evil Hour[14]
- Trudi Canavan – The High Lord[15]
- Bill Congreve – Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Battle of Evernight
- Sara Douglass – God's Concubine[16]
- Jennifer Fallon
- Eye of the Labyrinth
- Lord of the Shadows[17]
- Lian Hearn – Grass for His Pillow
- Ian Irvine – Terminator Gene
- Victor Kelleher – Born of the Sea[18]
- Glenda Larke – The Aware[19]
- Fiona McIntosh – Myrren's Gift[20]
- Anthony O'Neill – The Lamplighter[21]
- Kate Orman – Blue Box[22]
- Tony Shillitoe – Freedom[23]
- Kim Wilkins – The Autumn Castle[24]
- Sean Williams and Shane Dix – Heirs of Earth[25]
Drama
[edit]- Mireille Juchau – White Gifts
- Hannie Rayson – Inheritance
- Henri Szeps – One Life, Two Journeys
- David Williamson – Birthrights
Poetry
[edit]- Judith Beveridge – Wolf Notes
- Laurie Duggan – Mangroves
- Stephen Edgar – Lost in the Foreground
- Clive James – The Book of My Enemy : Collected Verse, 1958–2003
- John Kinsella – Peripheral Light
Non-fiction
[edit]- Fiona Capp – That Oceanic Feeling
- Inga Clendinnen – Dancing with Strangers
- Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford – Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area
- David Hollinsworth – They Took the Children
- Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark – The History Wars
- Peter Robb – A Death in Brazil
Biographies
[edit]- Graeme Blundell – King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy
- Lorraine Day – Gordon of Dingley Dell: The Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870): Poet and Horseman
- Edward Duyker – Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834)
- Greg Growden – The Snowy Baker Story
- Tom Keneally – Abraham Lincoln
- Jonathan King – Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell
- Garry Linnell – Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett
- Peter Singer – Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
- Nicholas Thomas – Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook
- Anne Whitehead – Bluestocking in Patagonia
Awards and honours
[edit]Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
[edit]| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[26] | Philip Salom |
| Patrick White Award[27] | Janette Turner Hospital |
Literary
[edit]Fiction
[edit]International
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[32] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Sonya Hartnett | Of a Boy | Viking Books |
National
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[33] | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year Award[28] | Sonya Hartnett | Of a Boy | Viking Books |
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[34] | Nicholas Angel | Drown Them in the Sea | Allen and Unwin |
| Ruth Balint | Troubled Waters | Allen and Unwin | |
| Miles Franklin Award[35] | Alex Miller | Journey to the Stone Country | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Kate Jennings | Moral Hazard | Fourth Estate |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award | Gail Jones | Black Mirror | Picador |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Janette Turner Hospital | Due Preparations for the Plague | HarperCollins |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Brian Castro | Shanghai Dancing | Giramondo Publishing |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Gail Jones | Black Mirror | Picador |
Children and Young Adult
[edit]National
[edit]Crime and Mystery
[edit]National
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[36] | Novel | Gabrielle Lord | Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing | Hodder Headline Australia |
| Alex Palmer | Blood Redemption | HarperCollins | ||
| Readers' Choice | Cathy Cole | Skin Deep | Duffy and Snellgrove | |
| Young Adult Novel | Natalie Jane Prior | Fireworks and Darkness | Angus & Robertson | |
| Ned Kelly Award[37] | Novel | Peter Temple | White Dog | Text Publishing |
| First novel | Alex Palmer | Blood Redemption | HarperCollins | |
| True crime | Peter Lalor | Blood Stain | Allen & Unwin | |
| Lifetime Achievement | Kerry Greenwood |
Science fiction
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman | Fallen Gods | Telos Publishing |
| Sf Short Story | Brendan Duffy | "Louder Echo" | Agog! Terrific Tales | |
| Fantasy Novel | Garth Nix | Abhorsen | Allen and Unwin | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Lucy Sussex | "La Sentinelle" | Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural | |
| Horror Novel | Victor Kelleher | Born of the Sea | Viking Books | |
| Horror Short Story | Simon Brown | "Love is a Stone" | Gathering the Bones | |
| Young Adult Novel | Garth Nix | Abhorsen | Allen and Unwin | |
| Carole Wilkinson | Dragonkeeper | Black Dog Books | ||
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Sean Williams and Shane Dix | Echoes of Earth | HarperCollins |
| Short Fiction | Deborah Biancotti | "King of All and The Metal Sentinel" | Agog! Fantastic Fiction | |
| Collected Work | Cat Sparks ed. | Agog! Fantastic Fiction | Agog! Press |
Poetry
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[33] | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[28] | Laurie Duggan | Mangroves | University of Queensland Press |
| Anne Elder Award[38] | Chris Andrews | Cut Lunch | Indigo |
| Kathryn Lomer | Extraction of Arrows | University of Queensland Press | |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[39] | Stephen Edgar | Lost in the Foreground | Duffy & Snellgrove |
| Mary Gilmore Prize[40] | Not awarded | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Jill Jones | Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems | Salt Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Emma Lew | Anything the Landlord Touches | Giramondo Publishing |
Drama
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | David Milroy and Ningali Lawford | Windmill Baby | Currency Press |
Non-Fiction
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[33] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[28] | Non-Fiction | Ann Galbally | Charles Condor: The Last Bohemian | Miegunyah Press |
| National Biography Award[41] | Biography | Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin |
| Don Watson | Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : a Portrait of Paul Keating PM | Random House | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Mark McKenna | Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place | University of New South Wales Press |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | James Bowen and Margarita Bowen | The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage |
Cambridge University Press |
| Community and Regional History | Erik Eklund | Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla | Melbourne University Press | |
| General History | David Garrioch | The Making of Revolutionary Paris | University of California Press | |
| Young People's | Alan Tucker | My Story: The Bombing of Darwin, The Diary of Tom Taylor | Scholastic Press | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Margaret Simons | Meeting of the Waters | Hachette Australia |
| History | Richard Bosworth | Mussolini | Oxford University Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Graeme Davison | Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities | Allen & Unwin |
Deaths
[edit]- 16 March – Susan McGowan, poet (born 1907)
- 18 March – Julie Lewis, short story writer (born 1925)
- 30 March – Nick Enright, playwright and screenwriter (born 1950)[42]
- 2 April – Joan Phipson, writer for children and young adults (born 1912)
- 20 April – Bill Wannan, editor (born 1915)
- 1 May – Stephen Estaban Kelen, dramatist (born 1912)
- 28 June – Clem Christesen, poet and founding editor of Meanjin (born 1911)[43]
- 30 June – Oriel Gray, playwright and screenwriter (born 1920)
- 23 November – Hesba Brinsmead, writer for children (born 1922)
See also
[edit]- 2003 in Australia
- 2003 in literature
- 2003 in poetry
- List of years in literature
- List of years in Australian literature
References
[edit]- ^ Austlit Gateway News March/April 2003
- ^ Austlit Gateway News July/August 2003
- ^ Austlit Gateway News September/October 2003
- ^ "Burke's Soldier by Alan Atwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "The Boy by Julian Davies". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — The Accomplice by Kathryn Heyman". Austlit. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Somewhere, Home by Nada Awar Jarrar". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Dead Sexy by Kathy Lette". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — The Five Winds by Patricia Shaw". Austlit. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "The Secret Cure by Sue Woolfe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Orbital Burn by K. A. Bedford". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "An Evil Hour by Russell Blackford". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "The High Lord by Trudi Canavan". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "God's Concubine by Sara Douglass". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Lord of the Shadows by Jennifer Fallon". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Born of the Sea by Victor Kelleher". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "The Aware by Glenda Larke". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Myrren's Gift by Fiona McIntosh". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Blue Box by Kate Orman". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Freedom by Tony Shillitoe". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "The Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Heirs of Earth by Sean Williams & Shane Dix". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d ""No need for a `real job' after book wins prize"". The Age, 22 August 2003, p3. ProQuest 363610086. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2003"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "2003 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Nick Enright". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Clem Christesen (1911-1999)". Austlit. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
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