2022 in Australian literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Robbie Arnott – Limberlost
- Jessica Au – Cold Enough for Snow
- Jane Caro – The Mother[1]
- Steven Carroll – Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight[2]
- Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)[3]
- Robert Drewe – Nimblefoot[4]
- Katerina Gibson – Women I Know (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction)[5]
- Yumna Kassab – The Lovers[6]
- Robert Lukins – Loveland[7]
- Fiona McFarlane – The Sun Walks Down[8]
- Fiona Kelly McGregor – Iris[9]
- Paddy O'Reilly – Other Houses[10]
- Edwina Preston – Bad Art Mother[11]
- Craig Sherborne – The Grass Hotel[12]
- Steve Toltz – Here Goes Nothing[13]
Short story collections
- Mirandi Riwoe – The Burnished Sun[14]
Crime and mystery
- Shelley Burr – Wake[15]
- Aoife Clifford – When We Fall[16]
- Chris Hammer – The Tilt[17]
- Jane Harper – Exiles
- Sally Hepworth – The Soulmate[18]
- Katherine Kovacic – Seven Sisters[19]
- Tracey Lien – All That's Left Unsaid[20]
- Dervla McTiernan – The Murder Rule[21]
- Michael Robotham – Lying Beside You[22]
- Emma Viskic – Those Who Perish[23]
- Greg Woodland – The Carnival is Over[24]
Science fiction and fantasy
- Eugen Bacon – Mage of Fools[25]
- Grace Chan – Every Version of You[26]
- Sean McMullen – Generation Nemesis[27]
- Jane Rawson – A History of Dreams[28]
- Angela Slatter – The Path of Thorns[29]
Children's and young adult fiction
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke – 11 Words for Love[30]
- Lian Tanner – Rita’s Revenge[31]
- Gabrielle Wang – Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon[32]
Poetry
- Adam Aitken – Revenants[33]
- Boey Kim Cheng – The Singer and Other Poems[34]
- Marion May Campbell – Languish[35]
- Lionel Fogarty – Harvest Lingo[36]
- Lisa Gorton – Mirabilia[37]
- Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar[38]
- John Kinsella – The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)[39]
- Les Murray – Continuous Creation[40]
- Rae White – Exactly As I Am[41]
Non-Fiction
- Alison Bashford – An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family[42]
- Debra Dank – We Come With This Place[43]
- Jo Dyer – Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics[44]
- Madonna King – L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood[45]
- Louisa Lim – Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong[46]
- Julianne Schultz – The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation[47]
Memoir
- Hannah Gadsby – Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation[48]
- Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On[49]
- Chloe Hooper – Bedtime Story[50]
- Anita Jacoby – Secrets Beyond the Screen[51]
- Wendy McCarthy – Don't Be Too Polite, Girls[52]
- Brenda Niall – My Accidental Career[53]
- Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here[54]
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[55] | Antigone Kefala |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[56] | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Giramondo Publishing |
| Colin Roderick Award[57] | Emily Bitto | Wild Abandon | Allen & Unwin |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[58] | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[59] | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press |
| Stella Prize[60] | Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[61] | Veronica Gorrie | Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience | Scribe |
Fiction
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[62] | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Penguin |
| The Age Book of the Year[63] | Miles Allinson | In Moonland | Scribe |
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[64] | Nell Pierce | A Place Near Eden | Allen & Unwin |
| Barbara Jefferis Award[65] | S. L. Lim | Revenge: Murder in Three Parts | Transit Lounge Publishing |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[58] | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[58] | Lyn Yeowart | The Silent Listener | Viking |
| Miles Franklin Award[66] | Jennifer Down | Bodies of Light | Text |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[67] | Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven | Text |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | UQP |
| Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Hachette Australia |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[61] | Melisa Manning | Smokehouse | UQP |
Children and Young Adult
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[70] | Older Readers | Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | Allen & Unwin |
| Younger Readers | Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | Puffin | |
| Picture Book | Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft | Iceberg | Allen & Unwin | |
| Early Childhood | Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville | Jetty Jumping | Hardie Grant | |
| Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press | |
| Lifetime Achievement | Margaret Wild[71] | |||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[58] | Children's | Katrina Nannestad | Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief | ABC Books |
| Young Adult | Danielle Binks | The Monster of Her Age | Lothian | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Children's | Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | UQP |
| Young People's | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Children's | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Magabala Books |
| Young Adult | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[61] | Young Adult Fiction | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[72] | Novel | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
| Young adult novel | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text Publishing | |
| Children's novel | Nicki Greenberg | The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel | Affirm Press | |
| Non-fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc | |
| Debut novel | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
| Readers' choice | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
| Ned Kelly Award[73] | Novel | Candice Fox | The Chase | Bantam Books |
| First novel | Josh Kemp | Banjawarn | UWA Publishing | |
| True crime | Debi Marshall | Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders | Vintage Books | |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[62] | Jodie Albiston | Fifteeners | Puncher & Wattmann |
| Anne Elder Award[74] | Audrey Molloy | The Important Things | Gallery Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[75] | Jelena Dinic | In the Room with the She Wolf | Wakefield Press |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[67] | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Giramondo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | Vagabond Press |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[76] | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Hunter |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[61] | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | University of Queensland Press |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Script | Shaun Grant | NITRAM | |
| Play | Kirsty Marillier | Orange Thrower | Currency Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[61] | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[62] | Non-Fiction | Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Fourth Estate |
| The Age Book of the Year[63] | Non-Fiction | Bennadette Brennan | Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[58] | Non-Fiction | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate |
| Illustrated Non-Fiction | Amber Creswell Bell | Still Life | Thames and Hudson | |
| National Biography Award[77][78] | Biography | Bernadette Brennan | Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Non-Fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[79] | Australian History | Alexis Bergantz | French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions | NewSouth Publishing |
| Community and Regional History | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. | |
| General History | Mina Roces | The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change | Cornell University Press | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Non-Fiction | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Ultimo Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[61] | Non-Fiction | Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | Pan |
Deaths
- 22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933)[80]
- 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935)[81]
- 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961)[82]
- 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50)[83]
- 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934)[84]
- 29 April – Craig Powell, poet (born 1940)[85]
- 2 June – Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer (born 1936)[86]
- 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938)[87]
- 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939)[88]
- 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927)[89]
- 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942)[90]
- 3 August
- Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925)[91]
- Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931)[92]
- 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937)[93]
- 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940)[94]
- 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927)[95]
- 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964)[96]
- 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938)[97]
- 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941)[98]
- 2 December
- Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)[99]
- Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935)[100]
- 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)[101]
- December – Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (born 1952)[102]
See also
References
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