This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2012.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award[26] | Tim Thorne |
Melbourne Prize for Literature[27] | Alex Miller |
Patrick White Award[28] | Amanda Lohrey |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year[29] | James Boyce | 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia | Black Inc |
ALS Gold Medal[30] | Gillian Mears | Foal's Bread | Allen & Unwin |
Colin Roderick Award[31] | Thomas Keneally | The Daughters of Mars | Random House |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[32] | Anna Funder | All That I Am | Penguin Books |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[33] | Gail Jones | Five Bells | Vintage Books |
Victorian Prize for Literature[34] | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Region | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Book Prize[35] | Pacific | Cory Taylor | Me and Mr Booker | Text Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Scott Gardner | The Dead I Know | Allen & Unwin |
Younger Readers | Kate Constable | Crow Country | Allen & Unwin | |
Picture Book | Bob Graham | A Bus Called Heaven | Walker Books | |
Early Childhood | Nick Bland, illus. Freya Blackwood | Maudie Bear | Scholastic Press | |
Davitt Award | Young Adult Novel | Meg McKinley | Surface Tension | Walker Books |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[32] | Children's & YA | Anh Do & Suzanne Do & Bruce Whatley (Illus) | The Little Refugee | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Kate Constable | Crow Country | Allen & Unwin |
Young People's | Penni Russon | Only Ever Always | Allen & Unwin | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Children's | Briony Stewart | Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers | University of Queensland Press |
Young Adult | Neil Grant | The Ink Bridge | Allen & Unwin | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[34] | Young Adult Fiction | John Larkin | The Shadow Girl | Random House |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Children's | Stephen Herrick | Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend | University of Queensland Press |
Peter Macinnis | Australian Backyard Naturalist | National Library of Australia | ||
Writing for Young Adults | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen and Unwin |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[43] | Novel | Sulari Gentill | A Decline in Prophets | Pantera Press |
Young adult novel | Meg McKinlay | Surface Tension | Walker Books | |
True crime | Liz Porter | Cold Case Files: Past Crimes Solved by New Forensic Science | Pan Macmillan | |
Debut novel | Jaye Ford | Beyond Fear | Bantam Books | |
Readers' choice | YA Erskine | The Brotherhood | Bantam Books | |
Jaye Ford | Beyond Fear | Bantam Books | ||
Ned Kelly Award[44] | Novel | J. C. Burke | Pig Boy | Random House Australia |
First novel | Peter Twohig | The Cartographer | Fourth Estate | |
True crime | Eamonn Duff | Sins of the Father: The Untold Story Behind Schapelle Corby's Ill-Fated Drug Run | Allen & Unwin | |
Life achievement | Gabrielle Lord |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Daniel O'Malley | The Rook | HarperCollins |
SF Short Story | Margo Lanagan | "Significant Dust" | Twelfth Planet Press (Cracklescape) | |
Fantasy Novel | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen & Unwin | |
Fantasy Short Story | Margo Lanagan | "Bajazzle" | Twelfth Planet Press (Cracklescape) | |
Horror Novel | Kirstyn McDermott | Perfections | Xuom | |
Horror Short Story | Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) | |
Anthology | Jonathan Strahan | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume 6 | Night Shade Books | |
Collection | K. J. Bishop | That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote | K. J. Bishop | |
Australian Shadows Awards | Novel | Kirstyn McDermott | Perfections | Xoum |
Long Fiction | Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Through Splintered Walls: A Twelve Planets Collection edited by Alisa Krasnostein | |
Short Fiction | Martin J. Livings | "Birthday Suit" | Living with the Dead by Martin J. Livings | |
Edited Publication | Craig Bezant, editor | Surviving The End | Dark Prints Press | |
Collected Works | Kaaron Warren | Through Splintered Walls: A Twelve Planets Collection | Twelfth Planet Press | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Kim Westwood | The Courier's New Bicycle | HarperVoyager |
Novella/Novelette | Paul Haines | "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt" | The Last Days of Kali Yuga | |
Short Story | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "The Patrician" | Love and Romanpunk | |
Collected Work | Paul Haines | The Last Days of Kali Yuga | Brimstone |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[36] | Les Murray | Taller When Prone | Black Inc Publishing |
The Age Book of the Year | Mal McKimmie | The Brokenness Sonnets I-III And Other Poems | Five Islands Press |
Anne Elder Award[45] | Elizabeth Allen | Body Language | Vagabond Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[46] | Toby Fitch | Rawshock | Puncher and Wattmann |
Michael Brennan | Autoethnographic | Giramondo Publishing | |
Laurie Duggan | The Collected Blue Hills | Puncher and Wattmann | |
John Kinsella | Jaguar's Dream | Alma Books | |
Michael Sharkey | Another Fine Morning in Paradise | Five Island Press | |
Mary Gilmore Prize[47] | Fiona Wright | Knuckled | Giramondo Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Gig Ryan | New and Selected Poems | Giramondo Publishing |
Queensland Literary Awards | Peter Rose | Crimson Crop | UWA Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[34] | John Kinsella | Armour | Picador |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Robert Gray | Cumulus | John Leonard Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Play | Joanna Murray-Smith | The Gift | Melbourne Theatre Company |
Vanessa Bates | Porn.Cake | Beckett Theatre, Melbourne | ||
Script | Peter Duncan | Rake (Episode 1): "R v Murray" | ABC Television | |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Anna Barnes | Minus One Sister | Griffin Theatre Company |
Fellowship | Hilary Bell |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[36] | Non-fiction | Mark McKenna | An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark | Miegunyah Press |
The Age Book of the Year | Non-fiction | James Boyce | 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest of Australia | Black Inc. |
Children's Book of the Year Award | Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch | One Small Island: The Story of Macquarie Island | Penguin Group |
Davitt Award | True crime | Liz Porter | Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science | Pan Macmillan |
National Biography Award[48] | Biography | Martin Thomas | The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[32] | Non-Fiction | William McInnes & Sarah Watt | Worse Things Happen at Sea | Hachette |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Mark McKenna | An Eye for Eternity: The Live of Manning Clark | Melbourne University Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Mark McKenna | An Eye for Eternity: The Live of Manning Clark | Melbourne University Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Russell McGregor | Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation | Aboriginal Studies Press |
Community and Regional History | Deborah Beck | Set in Stone: A History of the Cell Block Theatre | UNSW Press | |
General History | Tim Bonyhady | Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family | Allen & Unwin | |
Young People's | Stephanie Owen Reeder | Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea | National Library of Australia | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Robin De Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Penguin Group |
History | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Allen & Unwin | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[34] | Non-fiction | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Allen & Unwin |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Non-fiction | Roger Averill (author) | Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz | Transit Lounge |
Western Australian history | edited by Anne Scrimgeour; transcribed and translated by Barbara Hale, Mark Clendon | Kurlumarniny: We come from the Desert | Aboriginal Studies Press |
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