This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Melbourne Prize for Literature[1] | Alison Lester |
Patrick White Award[2] | Samuel Wagan Watson |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[3] | Shastra Deo | The Agonist | University of Queensland Press |
Colin Roderick Award[4] | Jock Serong | On the Java Ridge | Text Publishing |
Stella Prize[5] | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Giramondo |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[6] | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster |
Text Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Staunch Book Prize[7] | Jock Serong | On the Java Ridge | Text Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[8] | Emily O'Grady | The Yellow House | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award[9] | Libby Angel | The Trapeze Act | Text Publishing |
Miles Franklin Award[10][11] | Michelle de Kretser | The Life to Come | Allen & Unwin |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[12] | Gerald Murnane | Border Districts | Giramondo |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[13] | Bram Presser | The Book of Dirt | Text Publishing |
Queensland Literary Awards[14] | Kim Scott | Taboo | Pan Macmillan |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[15] | Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Text Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award[16] | Older Readers | Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell | Take Three Girls | Pan Macmillan |
Younger Readers | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Allen & Unwin | |
Picture Book | Gwyn Perkins | A Walk in the Bush | Affirm Press | |
Early Childhood | Michael Gerard Bauer; Chrissie Krebs (illustrator) | Rodney Loses It! | Omnibus Books | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Idan Ben-Barak, illus. Julian Frost | Do Not Lick This Book | Allen & Unwin | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[13] | Children's | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Allen & Unwin |
Young People's | Zana Fraillon | The Ones That Disappeared | Lothian | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[15] | Young Adult Fiction | Demet Divaroren | Living on Hope Street | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[17] | Novel | Emma Viskic | And Fire Came Down | Echo Books |
Young adult novel | Vikki Wakefield | Ballad for a Mad Girl | Text Publishing | |
Children's novel | Allison Rushby | The Turnkey | Walker Books | |
True crime | Gabriella Coslovich | Whitely on Trial | Melbourne University Press | |
Debut novel | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Allen & Unwin | |
Readers' choice | Jane Harper | Force of Nature | Pan Macmillan | |
Ned Kelly Award[18] | Novel | Sulari Gentill | Crossing the Lines | Pantera |
First novel | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Allen & Unwin | |
True crime | Graham Archer | Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney |
Random House | |
Lifetime achievement | Garry Disher |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Ditmar Award[19] | Novel | Thoraiya Dyer | Crossroads of Canopy | Tor |
Best Novella or Novelette | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Girl Reporter" | Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers Publishing) | |
Best Short Story | Janeen Webb | "A Pearl Beyond Price" | Cthulhu Deep Down-Under Vol 1 (IFWG Publishing Australia) |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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National Biography Award[20] | Biography | Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Text Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[13] | Non-Fiction | Paul Ham | Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth | William Heinemann Australia |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[21] | Australian History | Christina Twomey | The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia | NewSouth Publishing |
Community and Regional History | Paul Irish | Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney | NewSouth Publishing | |
General History | Sean Scalmer | On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia | Temple University Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards[14] | Non-Fiction | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Giramondo Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[15] | Non-fiction | Sarah Krasnostein | The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster | Text Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Anne Elder Award[22] | Rico Craig | Bone Ink | Guillotine Press |
Mary Gilmore Award[23] | Quinn Eades | Rallying | UWA Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[13] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[15] | Bella Li | Argosy | Vagabond Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[13] | Script (joint winners) | Amanda Blue and Jacob Hickey | Deep Water: The Real Story | Blackfella Films |
Jane Campion and Gerard Lee | Birthday, Top of the Lake: China Girl, Series 2 Episode 4 | See Saw Films | ||
Play | Nakkiah Lui | Black is the New White | Sydney Theatre Company |