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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024.

Events

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  • Both the chief executive and deputy chairman quit over promotional material released for the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival[1]
  • Major Australian online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration as it explores options for "sale and/or recapitalisation."[2]

Major publications

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Literary fiction

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Short story collections

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Crime and mystery

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Science fiction and Fantasy

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Children's and young adult

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  • Kate Emery – My Family and Other Suspects[34]
  • Emma Lord – Anomaly[35]
  • Katrina Nannestead – All the Beautiful Things[36]
  • Lili Wilkinson – Deep is the Fen[37]

Poetry

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Plays

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Non-Fiction

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Memoir

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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
Melbourne Prize for Literature[49] Alexis Wright
Patrick White Award[50] Pi O

Literary

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Award Author Title Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[51] Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Giramondo Publishing
Colin Roderick Award[52] Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie University of Queensland Press
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[53] David Marr Killing for Country: A Family Story Black Inc
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[54] Ali Cobby Eckermann She Is the Earth Magabala Books
Stella Prize[55] Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Giramondo Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56] Grace Yee Chinese Fish Giramondo Publishing

Fiction

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Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year[57] Tony Birch Women & Children University of Queensland Press
ARA Historical Novel Prize[58] Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie University of Queensland Press
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[59] Kristina Ross First Year Allen and Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award (joint winners)[60] Sara M Saleh Songs for the Dead and the Living Affirm
Lucy Treloar Days of Innocence and Wonder Picador
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[53] Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie University of Queensland Press
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[53] Jane Harrison The Visitors Fourth Estate
Miles Franklin Award[61] Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Giramondo Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[62] Andre Dao Anam Hamish Hamilton
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[63] Angela O'Keeffe The Sitter University of Queensland Press
Queensland Literary Awards[64] Sharlene Allsopp The Great Undoing Ultimo
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56] Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie University of Queensland Press

Children and Young Adult

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
ARA Historical Novel Prize Children and Young Adult Beverley McWilliams Spies in the Sky Pantera Press
Children's Book of the Year Award[65] Older Readers Karen Comer Grace Notes Lothian
Younger Readers Tristan Bancks Scar Town Puffin
Picture Book Kelly Canby Timeless Fremantle Press
Early Childhood Briony Stewart Gymnastica Fantastica! Lothian
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway, illus by Louise Hogan Country Town Fremantle Press
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[53] Children's Jaclyn Moriarty The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet Allen & Unwin
Young Adult Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes Welcome to Sex Hardie Grant
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[62] Children's Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country Hardie Grant
Young Adult Will Kostakis We Could Be Something Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] Children's Levi Pinfold Paradise Sands: A story of enchantment Walker Books
Young People's Helena Fox The Quiet and the Loud Pan Macmillan Australia
Queensland Literary Awards[64] Children's Karen Comer Sunshine on Vinegar Street Allen & Unwin
Young Adult sydney knoo The Spider and Her Demons Penguin
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56] Young Adult Fiction Lili Wilkinson A Hunger of Thorns Allen & Unwin
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[67] Children's Dianne Wolfer Scout and the Rescue Dogs Walker Books

Crime and Mystery

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National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[68] Novel Monica Vuu When One of Us Hurts Pan Macmillan
Young adult novel Amy Doak Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer Penguin Books
Children's novel Lucinda Gifford The Wolves of Greycoat Hall Walker Books
Non-fiction Rebecca Hazel The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife Vintage Books
Debut Christine Keighery The Half Brother Ultimo
Readers' choice Alison Goodman The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies HarperCollins
Ned Kelly Award[69] Novel Sally Hepworth Darling Girls Pan Macmillan
First novel Matt Francis Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point Big Sky Publishing
True crime Nick McKenzie Crossing the Line Hachette Australia

Non-Fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year[57] Non-Fiction Ross McMullin Life So Full of Promise Scribe
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[53] Non-Fiction David Marr Killing for Country: A Family Story Black Inc
Illustrated Non-Fiction Wendy Cooper The Bird Art of William T. Cooper National Library of Australia
National Biography Award[70] Biography Lamisse Hamouda The Shape of Dust: a father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him Pantera Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[62] Non-Fiction Daniel Browning Close to the Subject: Selected Works Magabala Books
Australian History Ryan Cropp Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country La Trobe University Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] Non-Fiction Christine Kenneally Ghosts of the Orphanage Hachette Australia
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[71] Australian History Alecia Simmonds Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law La Trobe University Press, with Black Inc[72]
Community and Regional History Shauna Bostock Reaching Through Time: Finding my family's stories Allen & Unwin
General History Katharine E. McGregor Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia University of Wisconsin Press
Queensland Literary Awards[64] Non-Fiction Abbas El-Zein Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars Upswell
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56] Non-Fiction Ellen van Neerven Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity University of Queensland Press

Poetry

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Award Author Title Publisher
Anne Elder Award[73] Sara M. Saleh The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat University of Queensland Press
Mary Gilmore Award[74] Dan Hogan Secret Third Thing Cordite Books
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[62] Amy Crutchfield Aphrodite Giramondo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] Tais Rose Wae Riverbed Sky Songs Vagabond Press
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[64] L. K. Holt Three Books Vagabond Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56] Grace Yee Chinese Fish Giramondo Publishing

Drama

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[66] Script Anna Barnes Safe Home, Episode 1 Kindling Pictures
Play Nicholas Brown Sex Magick Griffin Theatre Company & Currency Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[56] S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack The Jungle and the Sea Belvoir St Theatre & Currency Press

Deaths

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Unknown date

See also

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References

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