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

Major publications

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Literary fiction

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Children's and young adult fiction

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Crime

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Poetry

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Non-fiction

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Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

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Award Author
Patrick White Award[49] Gregory Day

Literary

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Award Author Title Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[50] Charmaine Papertalk Green Nganajungu Yagu Cordite Press
Colin Roderick Award[51] Sally Young Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires NewSouth Publishing
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[52] Favel Parrett There Was Still Love Hachette
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] Tara June Winch The Yield Penguin Random House
Stella Prize[54] Jess Hill See What You Made Me Do Black Inc
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55][56] S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack Counting and Cracking Belvoir and Co-Curious

Fiction

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National

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[57] Jessica Townsend Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Hachette
ARA Historical Novel Prize[58] Mirandi Riwoe Stone Sky Gold Mountain University of Queensland Press
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[59] K. M. Kruimink A Treacherous Country Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[60] Lucy Treloar Wolfe Island Pan Macmillan
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[52] Favel Parrett There Was Still Love Hachette
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[52] Suzanne Daniel Allegra in Three Parts Pan Macmillan
Miles Franklin Literary Award[61] Tara June Winch The Yield Penguin Random House
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[62] Tara June Winch The Yield Penguin Random House
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[63] Tara June Winch The Yield Penguin Random House
Queensland Literary Awards[64] Mirandi Riwoe Stone Sky Gold Mountain University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55][56] Christos Tsiolkas Damascus Allen & Unwin

Children and Young Adult

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National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[65] 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
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[52] Children's Sami Bayly The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals Lothian
Young Adult Wal Chim The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[63] 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[55][56] Young Adult Fiction Helena Fox How It Feels to Float Pan Macmillan Australia

Crime and Mystery

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International

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Barry Award[66] Novel Jane Harper The Lost Man Pan Macmillan

National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[67] Novel Meg Mundell The Trespassers University of Queensland Press
Young adult novel Astrid Scholte Four Dead Queens Allen & Unwin
Children's novel Jenny Blackford The Girl in the Mirror Eagle Books
True crime Adele Ferguson Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the Truth HarperCollins
Debut novel Susan Hurley Eight Lives Affirm Press
Readers' choice Dervla McTiernan The Scholar HarperCollins
Emma Viskic Darkness for Light Echo Publishing
Ned Kelly Award[68] Novel Christian White The Wife and the Widow Affirm Press
First novel Natalie Conyer Present Tense Clan Destine Press
True crime Dan Box Bowraville Viking Books

Science fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Ditmar Award[69] Novel Gillian Polack The Year of the Fruit Cake IFWG Publishing
Best Short Fiction Rivqa Rafael "Whom My Soul Loves"

Poetry

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[57] Natalie Harkin Archival-Poetics Vagabond Press
Anne Elder Award (joint winners)[70] Cham Zhi Yi blur by the Subbed In
Gareth Sion Jenkins Recipes for the Disaster Five Islands Press
Mary Gilmore Award[71] Thom Sullivan Carte Blanche Vagabond Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[62] Omar Sakr The Lost Arabs University of Queensland Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[63] Peter Boyle Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness Vagabond Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55][56] Charmaine Papertalk Green Nganajungu Yagu Cordite

Drama

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Award Category Author Title
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[63] Script Kylie Boltin Missing
Jacquelin Perske The Cry, Episode 2
Play S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack Counting and Cracking
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55] Drama S. Shakthidharan, with Eamon Flack Counting and Cracking

Non-Fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[57] Non-Fiction Meredith Lake The Bible in Australia NewSouth
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[52] Non-Fiction Archie Roach Tell Me Why Simon and Schuster Australia
Illustrated Non-Fiction Paul Byrnes The Lost Boys Affirm Press
National Biography Award[72] Biography Patrick Mullins Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon Scribe Publications
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[63] 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[73]
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[74]
General History Kate Fullagar The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire Yale University Press[75]
Queensland Literary Awards[64] Non-Fiction Joe Gorman Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[55][56] Non-Fiction Christina Thompson Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia HarperCollins

Deaths

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See also

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