This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2007.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award[9] | John Kinsella |
Patrick White Award[10] | David Rowbotham |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year[11] | Peter Cochrane | Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy | Melbourne University Press |
ALS Gold Medal[12] | Alexis Wright | Carpentaria | Giramondo |
Colin Roderick Award[13] | Deborah Robertson | Careless | Vintage |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[14] | Deborah Robertson | Careless | Vintage |
Award | Region | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize[15] | SE Asia and South Pacific | Best First Novel | Andrew O'Connor | Tuvalu | Allen and Unwin |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ABC Fiction Award[16] | Damian McDonald | Luck in the Greater West | ABC Books |
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[17] | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year Award[18] | David Malouf | Every Move You Make | Chatto & Windus |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[19] | Stefan Laszczuk | I Dream of Magda | Allen and Unwin |
Miles Franklin Award[20] | Alexis Wright | Carpentaria | Giramondo |
Nita Kibble Literary Award | Deborah Robertson | Careless | Vintage Books |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Peter Carey | Theft: A Love Story | Alfred A. Knopf |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Alexis Wright | Carpentaria | Giramondo |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Alexis Wright | Carpentaria | Giramondo |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Simone Lazaroo | The Travel Writer | Macmillan |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Andre Norton Award | Justine Larbalestier | Magic or Madness | Penguin Books |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Duncan Lawrie Dagger[21] | Peter Temple | The Broken Shore | Text Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[22] | Novel | Sydney Bauer | Undertow | Macmillan |
Young Adult Novel | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie | Macmillan | |
True Crime | Karen Kissane | Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage | Hodder | |
Readers' Choice | Kerry Greenwood | Devil's Food | Allen & Unwin | |
Karen Kissane | Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage | Hodder | ||
Ned Kelly Awards[23] | Novel | Garry Disher | Chain of Evidence | Soho Press |
First novel | Adrian Hyland | Diamond Dove | Text Publishing | |
True crime | Liz Porter | Written on the Skin | Pan Macmillan | |
Debi Marshall | Killing For Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders | Random House | ||
Lifetime Acheievement | Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | Novel | Will Elliott | The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books |
Short Story | Shaun Tan | The Arrival | Lothian | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Will Elliott | The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books |
Novella/Novelette | Paul Haines | "The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or How I Found God Inside My Wife)" | Coeur de Lion Publishing | |
Short Story | Rjurik Davidson | "The Fear of White" | Borderlands #7 | |
Collected Work | edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt | The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol. 2 | Mirrordanse Books | |
Australian Shadows Award | Will Elliott | The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year | Non-fiction | Peter Cochrane | Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy | Melbourne University Press |
Davitt Award | True crime | Karen Kissane | Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage | Hachette Australia |
National Biography Award | Jacob Rosenberg | East of Time | Brandl & Schlesinger | |
Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History | Les Carlyon | The Great War | Macmillan | |
Peter Cochrane | Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy | Melbourne University Press | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Robert Hughes | Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir | Alfred A. Knopf |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Libby Robin | How a Continent Created a Nation | University of NSW Press |
Community and Regional History | Regina Ganter | Mixed Relations: Asian Aboriginal Contact in North Australia | University of Western Australia Press | |
General History | Christopher Clark | Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 | Harvard University Press | |
Young People's | John Nicholson | Songlines and Stone Axes | Allen & Unwin | |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Tom Griffith | Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica | University of NSW Press |
History | Christopher Clark | Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 | Harvard University Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Danielle Clode | Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes | Melbourne University Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year | Robert Adamson | The Goldfinches of Baghdad | Flood Editions |
Anne Elder Award[24] | Judith Bishop | Event | Salt Publishing |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[25] | Robert Adamson | The Goldfinches of Baghdad | Flood Editions |
Mary Gilmore Prize[26] | Not awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | John Tranter | Urban Myths: 210 Poems | University of Queensland Press |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Laurie Duggan | The Passenger | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Judy Johnson | Jack | Pandanus Press |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Dennis Haskell | All the Time in the World | Salt Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Patrick White Playwrights' Award (joint winners) | Angus Cerini | Wretch | |
Timothy Daly | The Man in the Attic |