This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Patrick White Award | Not yet awarded |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[15] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
Colin Roderick Award | Not yet awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[16] | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Black Inc |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[17] | Ali Cobby Eckermann | She Is the Earth | Magabala Books |
Stella Prize[18] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[19] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year[20] | Tony Birch | Women & Children | University of Queensland Press |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[21] | Kristina Ross | First Year | Allen and Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award | Not yet awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[16] | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | University of Queensland Press |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[16] | Jane Harrison | The Visitors | Fourth Estate |
Miles Franklin Award[22] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[23] | Andre Dao | Anam | Hamish Hamilton |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[24] | Angela O'Keeffe | The Sitter | University of Queensland Press |
Queensland Literary Awards[25] | Sharlene Allsopp | The Great Undoing | Ultimo |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[19] | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | University of Queensland Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award[26] | 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[16] | 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[23] | 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[27] | 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[25] | 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[19] | Young Adult Fiction | Lili Wilkinson | A Hunger of Thorns | Allen & Unwin |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[28] | Children's | Dianne Wolfer | Scout and the Rescue Dogs | Walker Books |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[29] | Novel | Monica Vuu | When One of Us Hurts | Macmillan |
Young adult novel | Amy Doak | Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer | Penguin | |
Children's novel | Lucinda Gifford | The Wolves of Greycoat Hall | Walker Books | |
Non-fiction | Rebecca Hazel | The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife | Vintage | |
Debut | Christine Keighery | The Half Brother | Ultimo | |
Readers' choice | Alison Goodman | The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies | HarperCollins | |
Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Not yet awarded | ||
First novel | Not yet awarded | |||
True crime | Not yet awarded |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year[20] | Non-Fiction | Ross McMullin | Life So Full of Promise | Scribe |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[16] | 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[30] | 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[23] | 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[27] | Non-Fiction | Christine Kenneally | Ghosts of the Orphanage | Hachette Australia |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[31] | Australian History | Alecia Simmonds | Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law | La Trobe University Press, with Black Inc[32] |
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[25] | Non-Fiction | Abbas El-Zein | Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars | Upswell |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[19] | Non-Fiction | Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | University of Queensland Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Anne Elder Award[33] | Sara M. Saleh | The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat | University of Queensland Press |
Mary Gilmore Award[34] | Dan Hogan | Secret Third Thing | Cordite Books |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[23] | Amy Crutchfield | Aphrodite | Giramondo Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[27] | Tais Rose Wae | Riverbed Sky Songs | Vagabond Press |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[25] | L. K. Holt | Three Books | Vagabond Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[19] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[27] | Script | Anna Barnes | Safe Home, Episode 1 | Kindling Pictures |
Play | Nicholas Brown | Sex Magick | Griffin Theatre Company & Currency Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[19] | S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack | The Jungle and the Sea | Belvoir St Theatre & Currency Press |
She died on Tuesday, aged 81.