This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2016.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Patrick White Award[44] | Carmel Bird |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[45] | Brenda Niall | Mannix | Text Publishing |
Colin Roderick Award[46] | Gail Jones | A Guide to Berlin | Random House |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[47] | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things | Allen & Unwin |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[48] | Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance | Giramondo Publishing |
Stella Prize[49] | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things | Allen & Unwin |
Victorian Prize for Literature[50] | Mary Anne Butler | Broken | Currency Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[51] | Tamsin Janu | Figgy in the World | Omnibus Books |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[52] | Katherine Brabon | The Memory Artist | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award[53] | Peggy Frew | Hope Farm | Scribe |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[47] | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Things | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[47] | Lucy Treloar | Salt Creek | Macmillan |
Miles Franklin Award[54] | A. S. Patrić | Black Rock White City | Transit Lounge |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[55] | Lisa Gorton (joint winner) | The Life of Houses | Giramondo |
Charlotte Wood (joint winner) | The Natural Way of Things | Allen & Unwin | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[56] | Merlinda Bobis | Locust Girl: A Lovesong | Spinifex Press |
Queensland Literary Awards[57] | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Scribe |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[50] | Mireille Juchau | The World Without Us | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Fiona Wood | Cloudwish | Macmillan Australia |
Younger Readers | Morris Gleitzman | Soon | Viking Books | |
Picture Book | Nadia Wheatley, text
Armin Greder, illus. |
Flight | Windy Hollow Books | |
Early Childhood | Anna Walker | Mr Huff | Penguin Random House | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[47] | Children's | Aaron Blabey | The Bad Guys: Episode 1 | Scholastic Australia |
Young Adult | Fiona Wood | Cloudwish | Pan MacMillan | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley | Teacup | Scholastic Australia |
Young People's | Alice Pung | Laurinda | Black Inc. | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | Marlee Jane Ward | Welcome to Orphancorp | Xou Pty Ltd |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[58] | Novel | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing |
Young adult novel | Fleur Ferris | Risk | Random House | |
Children's novel | R. A Spratt | Friday Barnes, Under Suspicion | Random House | |
True crime | Alecia Simmonds | Wild Man | Affirm Press | |
Debut novel | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing | |
Fleur Ferris | Risk | Random House | ||
Readers' choice | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing | |
Ned Kelly Award[58] | Novel | Dave Warner | Before It Breaks | Fremantle Press |
First novel | Emma Viskic | Resurrection Bay | Echo Publishing | |
True crime | Gideon Haigh | Certain Admissions | Penguin | |
Lifetime achievement | Not awarded |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff | Gemima: The Illuminae Files 2 | Allen & Unwin |
Sf Short Story | Samantha Murray | "Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart" | Clarkesworld 122 | |
Fantasy Novel | Jay Kristoff | Nevernight | Harper Voyager | |
Fantasy Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest" | In Your Face (FableCroft Publishing) | |
Horror Novel | Kaaron Warren | The Grief Hole | IFWG Publishing Australia | |
Horror Short Story | TR Napper | "Flame Trees" | Asimov’s Science Fiction | |
Young Adult Novel | Alison Goodman | Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact | HarperCollins Publishers | |
Young Adult Short Story | Leife Shallcross | "Pretty Jennie Greenteeth" | Strange Little Girls (Belladonna Publishing) | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Lisa L. Hannett | Lament for the Afterlife | ChiZine Publications |
Best Novella or Novelette | Sean Williams | "Of Sorrow and Such" | Of Sorrow and Such (Tor.com) | |
Best Short Story | Kathleen Jennings | "A Hedge of Yellow Roses" | Hear Me Roar (Ticonderoga Publications) |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[51] | Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Black Inc Press |
Anne Elder Award[59] | John Hawke | Aurelia | Cordite Books |
Mary Gilmore Award[60] | Benedict Andrews | Lens Flare | Pitt Street Poetry |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[61] | Joanne Burns | brush | Giramondo Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Alan Loney | Crankhandle | Cordite Books |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Script | Cate Shortland | Deadline Gallipoli, Episode 4: "The Letter" | Matchbox Pictures & Full Clip Productions |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Lewis Treston | Hot Tub | Sydney Theatre Company |
Fellowship | Andrew Bovell |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[51] | Non-Fiction | Robert Dessaix | What Days Are For | Random House Australia |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[47] | Non-Fiction | Magda Szubanski | Reckoning: A Memoir | Text Publishing |
National Biography Award[62] | Biography | Brenda Niall | Mannix | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Magda Szubanski | Reckoning: A Memoir | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Stuart Macintyre | Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s | NewSouth Books |
Community and Regional History | Tanya Evans | Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales | University of New South Wales Press | |
General History | Ann McGrath | Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia | Nebraska University Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger | Giramondo |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Gerald Murnane | Something for the Pain | Text Publishing |
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.