From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2018
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018 .
[ edit ] Science Fiction and Fantasy [ edit ] Biographies and memoirs [ edit ] Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement [ edit ] Children and Young Adult [ edit ]
Award
Category
Author
Title
Publisher
Ditmar Award [ 78] Novel
Thoraiya Dyer
Crossroads of Canopy
Tor
Best Novella or Novelette
Tansy Rayner Roberts
"Girl Reporter"
Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers Publishing)
Best Short Story
Janeen Webb
"A Pearl Beyond Price"
Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1 (IFWG Publishing Australia)
6 March – Peter Nicholls , writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1939 )[ 83]
8 March – Peter Temple , author of Jack Irish 1946 )[ 84]
3 April – Noela Young , children's book illustrator and writer (born 1930 )[ 85] [ 86]
14 April – Frank Bren , Australian actor and playwright (born 1943 )[ 87]
16 April – Beverley Farmer , novelist and short story writer (born 1941 )[ 88]
1 June – Jill Ker Conway , academic and memoir writer, author of The Road from Coorain 1934 )[ 89]
2 June – Tony Morphett , screenwriter and novelist (born 1938 )[ 90]
30 August – Peter Corris , crime novelist (born 1942 )[ 91]
31 August – Ian Jones author and television writer and director (born 1931 )[ 92]
12 September – Albert Ullin OAM German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore, The Little Bookroom (born 1930 )[ 93]
16 September – John Molony , historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University (born 1927 )[ 94]
6 October – James Cowan , author (born 1942 )[ 95]
21 October – Eleanor Witcombe , screenwriter and playwright (born 1923 )[ 96]
22 October
22 November – Judith Rodriguez , poet and academic (born 1936 )[ 99]
^ "Austlit — Flames by Robbie Arnott" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — A Sand Archive by Gregory Day" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — The Passengers by Eleanor Limprecht" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — Shell by Kristina Olsson" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — The Drover's Wives by Ryan O' Neill" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — Taboo by Kim Scott" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "'Wide Big World by Maxine Beneba Clarke" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again by Mem Fox" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The 104-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekial Kwaymullina" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Artie and the Grime Wave by Richard Roxburgh" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Cicada by Shaun Tan" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Kill Shot by Garry Disher" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024 .^ "Austlit — Redemption Point by Candice Fox" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Austlit — The Other Wife by Michael Robotham" . Austlit. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Live and Let Fry by Sue Williams" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2024 .^ "Hidden City by Alan Baxter" . ISFDB. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Devouring Dark by Alan Baxter" . ISFDB. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Scales of Empire by Kylie Chan" . ISFDB. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "This Present Past by Traci Harding" . ISFDB. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Dyschonia by Jennifer Mills" . ISFDB. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren" . ISFDB. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Warlines by Jordie Albiston" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Sun Music: New and Selected Poems by Judith Beveridge" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Starting at Basheer's by Ken Bolton" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Towards Light & Other Poems by Sarah Day" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Moonlight on Oleander by Paul Hetherington" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Lost Lake by Bella Li" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "João by John Mateer" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Underwritten Plain by Tim Metcalf" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Water Bearer by Tracy Ryan" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Sugar House by Alana Valentine" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Austlit — Rebel with a Cause by Jacqui Lambi" . Austlit. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024 .^ "Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Speaking Up by Gillian Triggs" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Her Mother's Daughter by Nadia Wheatley" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "A Certain Light by Cynthia Banham" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century by Steve Biddulph" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Sydney Wars by Stephen Gapps" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 March 2024 .^ "Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Bible in Australia: A cultural history by Meredith Lake" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers by Michael C. Madden" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Austlit — Melbourne Prize" . Austlit. Retrieved 9 November 2023 .^ "Samuel Wagan Watson wins Patrick White Literary Award" . Books+Publishing . 15 November 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018 .^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners" . Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024 .^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners" . James Cook University. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2024 .^ a b c d e " . Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 11 March 2024 .^ "Kibble Literary Award" . Australian National University . Retrieved 9 March 2024 .^ The 2018 Stella Prize . Retrieved 13 April 2018^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018" . The Wheeler Centre . Retrieved 3 February 2024 .^ "Award for thriller without violence against women goes to Jock Serong" . the Guardian . 26 November 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2024 .^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners" . State Library of South Australia . Retrieved 7 May 2024 .^ "Brisbane author Emily O'Grady wins $20,000 Vogel Literary Award" . ABC News . 23 April 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2018 .^ " . Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024 .^ "Miles Franklin Literary Awards Applications | Perpetual | Perpetual" . www.perpetual.com.au . Retrieved 26 July 2018 .^ "Michelle de Kretser wins her second Miles Franklin award with The Life To Come" . ABC News . 26 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018 .^ "Winners announced for PM's literary awards 2018" . Books+Publishing . 5 December 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018 .^ a b c d e Morris, Linda (30 April 2018). "Stories of ancestral memory storm NSW Premier's Literary Awards" . Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2018 . ^ a b "Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced | Books+Publishing" . Retrieved 23 October 2018 .^ a b c d "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018" . The Wheeler Centre . Archived from the original on 1 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018 .^ "CBCA - Book of the Year Awards 2018" . cbca.org.au . Retrieved 28 August 2018 .^ " . Retrieved 28 August 2018 .^ "Gentill, Bailey win 2018 Ned Kelly Awards | Books+Publishing" . Retrieved 28 August 2018 .^ "Ditmar Awards 2018 winners announced" . Books + Publishing . Retrieved 26 July 2018 .^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award" . Austlit. Retrieved 6 February 2024 .^ "Mary Gilmore Award" . Association for the Study of Australian Literature . Retrieved 5 February 2024 .^ Convery, Stephanie (6 August 2018). "Judith Brett wins National Biography award for 'profound' look at life of Alfred Deakin" . the Guardian . Retrieved 6 August 2018 . ^ "Winners of the 2018 NSW Premier's History Awards announced | Books+Publishing" . Retrieved 3 September 2018 .^ Mort de Peter Nicholls, éditeur de l'Encyclopédie de la science-fiction (in French) ^ "Acclaimed crime writer Peter Temple dies, aged 71" . Sydney Morning Herald. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018 .^ "Death notice". Manly Daily . 7 April 2018. ^ "Probate notice". NSW Probate Index . 23 April 2018. ^ "Frank Desmond Bren" . Legacy.com . Retrieved 16 April 2018 .^ "Beverley Anne Farmer" . Legacy.com . Retrieved 19 April 2018 .^ "Obituary – Jill Ker Conway" . Obituaries Australia . Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2021 .^ "Tony Morphett" . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024 .^ "Peter Corris, author of Cliff Hardy crime novels, dies aged 76 - ABC News" . www.abc.net.au . 30 August 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2020 .^ Bunn, Anthony (31 August 2018). "Author Ian Jones, who wrote about the life of bushranger Ned Kelly, has died at the age of 86" . Border Mail . Fairfax Ltd. Retrieved 31 August 2018 . ^ "Ullin. – Albert Henry" . Legacy.com the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018 .^ Pryor, Sally (20 September 2018). "ANU historian John Molony dead at 91" . The Canberra Times . Retrieved 20 September 2018 . ^ Thompson, Peter (30 October 2018). "An adventurous poet and writer" . The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 November 2018 . ^ "Eleanor Witcombe: Her brilliant career" . The Sydney Morning Herald . 13 November 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018 .^ Ahmad, Zia (25 October 2018). "Anne Fairbairn passed away" . AMUST – Australasian Muslim Times . Retrieved 1 October 2023 . ^ "RiP Rose Zwi" . Books+Publishing . 31 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2020 .^ "Judith Catherine Rodriguez" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 24 November 2018 .
Years in Australian literature (1852–present)