This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014.
Events The State Library of Queensland takes over the running the Queensland Literary Awards which had previously been run by a group of volunteers. The Voss Literary Prize is awarded for the first time.
Major publications Literary fiction Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Tribe Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies Emily Bitto – The Strays Peter Carey – Amnesia Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys Mark Henshaw – The Snow Kimono Janette Turner Hospital – The Claimant Wendy James – The Lost Girls Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep Joan London – The Golden Age Suzanne McCourt – The Lost Child Liane Moriarty – Big Little Lies Gerald Murnane – A Million Windows Omar Musa – Here Come the Dogs Favel Parrett – When the Night Comes Christine Piper – After Darkness Craig Sherborne – Tree Palace Inga Simpson – Nest Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect Christos Tsiolkas – Merciless Gods Rohan Wilson – To Name Those Lost
Short stories Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Animals Ellen van Neerven – Heat and Light
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Trace Balla – Rivertime Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli (illustrated by Annie White) Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse Rebecca James – Cooper Bartholomew is Dead Ambelin Kwaymullina – The Lost Girl Alison Lester – Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach Rebecca Lim – The Astrologer's Daughter Doug MacLeod – Tigers on the Beach John Marsden – South of Darkness Alice Pung – Laurinda Diana Sweeney – The Minnow Claire Zorn – The Protected
Crime
Honey Brown – Through the Cracks Peter Corris – Silent Kill Candice Fox – Eden Katherine Howell – Deserving Death Barry Maitland – Crucifixion Creek P. M. Newton – Beams Falling Malla Nunn – Present Darkness Michael Rowbotham – Life or Death Jock Serong – Quota
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Trudi Canavan – Thief's Magic Kate Forsyth – Wolves of the Witchwood Patrick Holland – Navigatio Juliet Marillier – The Cracks in the Kingdom Garth Nix – Clariel Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China John A. Scott – N
Drama
Michael Gow – Once in Royal David's City
Poetry
Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford (edited by Oliver Dennis) Gwen Harwood – The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood John Kinsella – Sack Geoffrey Lehmann – Poems 1957–2013 Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms David Malouf – Earth Hour Chris Wallace-Crabbe – My Feet are Hungry
Biographies
Bob Brown – Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action Phil Butterss – An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis Matthew Condon – Jacks and Jokers Robert Dessaix – What Days Are For Rafael Epstein – Prisoner X Julia Gillard – My Story Dino Hodge – Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography John Howard – The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia Erik Jensen – Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen Madonna King – Hockey : Not Your Average Joe Elizabeth Morrison – David Syme : Man of the Age Mandy Sayer – The Poet's Wife David Walsh – A Bone of Fact
Non-fiction Sophie Cunningham – Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy Paul Kelly – Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation Bruce Pascoe – Dark Emu Sam Vincent – Blood & Guts
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Award Author Christopher Brennan Award Alan Wearne Patrick White AwardPatrick White Literary Award winner Brian Castro recalls his encounter with the grumpy neighbour, The Age, November 7, 2014 Brian Castro
Literary
Award Author Title Publisher ALS Gold Medal Alexis Wright The Swan Book Giramondo Publishing Colin Roderick Award Michael Wilding Wild Bleak Bohemia : Marcus Clarke, Adam LindsayGordon and Henry Kendall - A Documentary Australian Scholarly Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Random House Nita Kibble Literary Award Kristina Olsson Boy Lost: A Family Memoir University of Queensland Press Stella Prize Clare Wright The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka Text Publishing Victorian Prize for Literature Jennifer Maiden Liquid Nitrogen Giramondo Publishing
Fiction International
Award Author Title Publisher Man Booker Prize Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Random House
National
Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Frank Moorhouse Cold Light Vintage Books The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Christine Piper After Darkness Allen & UnwinBarbara Jefferis Award Margo Lanagan Sea Hearts Allen & Unwin Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest Penguin Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Random House Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction Hannah Kent Burial Rites Pan Macmillan Miles Franklin Award Evie Wyld All The Birds, Singing Random HousePrime Minister's Literary Awards Steven Carroll A World of Other People Fourth Estate Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Random House New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel Allen & Unwin Queensland Literary Awards Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Random House Victorian Premier's Literary Award Alex Miller Coal Creek Allen & Unwin Voss Literary Prize Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest Penguin Group (Australia) Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Vintage Books
Children and Young Adult National
Award Category Author Title PublisherChildren's Book of the Year Award Older Readers Fiona Wood Wildlife Pan MacMillan Younger ReadersCatherine Jinks City of Orphans: A Very Unusual Pursuit Allen & Unwin Picture Book Freya Blackwood, text Irema Kobald My Two Blankets Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont Early Childhood Libby Gleeson, illus. Freya Blackwood Go to Sleep, Jessie! Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Children's & YA Alison Lester Kissed by the Moon PenguinNew South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Children's Katrina Nannestad The Girl Who Brought Mischief HarperCollins Young People's AJ Betts Zac and Mia Text Publishing Victorian Premier's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction Barry Jonsberg My Life as an Alphabet Allen and Unwin
Crime and Mystery National
Award Category Author Title PublisherDavitt Award Novel Honey Brown Dark Horse Penguin Books Young Adult novel Karen Foxlee The Midnight Dress University of Queensland Press Children's novel Jen Storer Spooked! HarperCollins True crime Anna Krien Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport Black Inc Debut novel Hannah Kent Burial Rites Pan Macmillan Readers' choice Hannah Kent Burial Rites Pan MacmillanNed Kelly Award Novel Adrian McKinty In The Morning I'll Be Gone Allen and Unwin First novel Candice Fox Hades Random House, Australia True crime John Saffran Murder in Mississippi Hamish Hamilton Lifetime achievement Not awarded
Science fiction
Award Category Author Title PublisherAurealis Award Sf Novel Marianne de Pierres Peacemaker Angry Robot Sf Short Story Thoraiya Dye "Wine, Women, and Stars" Analog Fantasy Novel Juliet Marillier Dreamer's Pool Pan Macmillan Australia Fantasy Short Story Angela Slatter "St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls" Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3 Horror Novel Justine Larbalestier Razorhurst Allen and Unwin Horror Short Story Angela Slatter "Home and Hearth" Spectral Press (Home and Hearth) Young Adult Novel Jaclyn Moriarty The Cracks in the Kingdom Pan Macmillan Australia Young Adult Short Story Dirk Flinthart "Vanilla" Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidoscope)Ditmar Award Novel Robert Hood Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead Wildside Press Best Novella or NoveletteKirstyn McDermott "The Home for Broken Dolls" Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press) Best Short StoryCat Sparks "Scarp" The Bride Price (Ticonderoga Publications)
Poetry
Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Lisa Jacobson The Sunlit Zone 5 Islands Press Anne Elder Award Vanessa Page Confessional Box Walleah Press Mary Gilmore Prize Rose Lucas Even in the Dark UWA PublishingPrime Minister's Literary Awards Melinda Smith Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call Pitt Street Poetry New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Fiona Hile Novelties Hunter Queensland Literary Awards David Malouf Earth Hour University of Queensland Press Victorian Premier's Literary Award Jennifer Maiden Liquid Nitrogen Giramondo Publishing Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Paul Hetherington Six Different Windows UWA Publishing
Drama
Award Category Author Title Publisher New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Script Kris Mrksa Devil's Dust Australian Broadcasting Corporation Patrick White Playwrights' Award Award Debra Thomas The Man's Bitch Sydney Theatre Company Fellowship Kate Mulvany Victorian Premier's Literary Award Drama Patricia Cornelius Savages Playlab
Non-Fiction
Award Category Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Non-Fiction Kate Richards Madness: A Memoir Penguin Books Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Non-Fiction David Hunt Girt Black Inc. National Biography Award Biography Alison Alexander The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer Allen & UnwinNew South Wales Premier's Literary AwardsNon-Fiction Kristina Olsson Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir University of Queensland Press Michael Fullilove Rendezvous with Destiny Penguin BooksNew South Wales Premier's History Awards Australian History Joan Beaumont Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War Allen & Unwin Community and Regional History Ian Hoskins Coast: A History of the New South Wales Edge NewSouth General History John Gascoigne Encountering the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment Cambridge University Press Young People's Nadia Wheatley, illustrated by Ken Searle Australians All Allen & Unwin Queensland Literary Awards Non-FictionPaul Ham 1914: The Year the World Ended Random House Australia Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-fiction Henry Reynolds Forgotten War NewSouth
Deaths
14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist (born 1935) 20 March – Joan O'Hagan, crime novelist (born 1926) 10 April – Doris Pilkington Garimara, novelist (born c.1937) 17 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (born 1957) 19 September – Rod Milgate, playwright and painter (born 1934) 8 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (born 1938) 3 November – Michael Fitzgerald Page, writer and publisher (born 1922 in England) 1 December – Rocky Wood, horror writer and researcher (born 1959 in New Zealand)
See also 2014 in Australia 2014 in literature 2014 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature List of Australian literary awards
References
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.