This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award[18] | Judith Beveridge |
Patrick White Award[19] | Louis Nowra |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[20] | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Allen & Unwin |
Colin Roderick Award[21] | Ashley Hay | The Railwayman's Wife | Allen & Unwin |
Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Black Pepper | |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[22] | Annah Faulkner | The Beloved | Picador |
Stella Prize[23] | Carrie Tiffany | Mateship with Birds | Pan Macmillan |
Victorian Prize for Literature[24] | Not awarded |
Award | Region | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Book Prize[25] | Pacific | Michael Sala | The Last Thread | Affirm Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen and Unwin |
Younger Readers | Sonya Hartnett | The Children of the King | Viking Books | |
Picture Book | Ron Brooks and Julie Hunt | The Coat | Allen and Unwin | |
Early Childhood | Emma Allen, illus. Freya Blackwood | The Terrible Suitcase | Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia | |
Davitt Award | Young Adult Novel | Jennifer Walsh | The Tunnels of Tarcoola | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Aaron Blabey | The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon | Penguin Books |
Young People's | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Pan Macmillan | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Children's | Narelle Oliver | Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! | Omnibus Books |
Young Adult | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Pan Macmillan | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | No award | ||
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Children's | Dianne Wolfer, illus. by Brian Simmonds | Light Horse Boy | Fremantle Press |
Jan Ormerod, illus. by Andrew Joyner | The Swap | Hardie Grant | ||
Writing for Young Adults | Alyssa Brugman | Alex As Well | Text Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[33] | Novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan |
Young adult novel | Jennifer Walsh | The Tunnels of Tarcoola | Allen & Unwin | |
True Crime | Pamela Burton | The Waterlow Killings | Melbourne University Press | |
Debut novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan | |
Readers' choice | Kerry Greenwood | Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery | NewSouth Publishing | |
Ned Kelly Award[34] | Novel | Geoffrey McGeachin | Blackwattle Creek | Penguin Books |
First novel | Zane Lovitt | The Midnight Promise | Text Publishing | |
True crime | Robin de Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Viking | |
Lifetime Achievement | Not awarded |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Max Barry | Lexicon | Hachette |
SF Short Story | Kaaron Warren | "Air, Water, and the Grove" | Pandemonimum Press (The Lowest Heaven) | |
Fantasy Novel | Mitchell Hogan | A Crucible of Souls | Mitchell Hogan | |
Fantasy Short Story | Jay Kristoff | "The Last Stormdancer" | Thomas Dunne Books | |
Horror Novel | Allyse Near | Fairytales for Wilde Girls | Random House Australia | |
Horror Short Story | Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | |
Anthology | Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene | The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror | Ticonderoga Publications | |
Tehani Wessely | One Small Step, An Anthology of Discoveries | FableCroft Publishing | ||
Collection | Joanne Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
Australian Shadows Awards | Novel | Marty Young | 809 Jacob Street | Black Beacon Books |
Long Fiction | Kaaron Warren | "The Unwanted Women of Surrey" | Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling | |
Short Fiction | Debbie Cowens | "Caterpillars" | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror edited by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray | |
Edited Publication | Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray, editors | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | Paper Road Press | |
Collected Works | Jo Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and other stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen & Unwin |
Novella/Novelette | Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) | |
Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "The Wisdom of Ants" | Clarkesworld 75 | |
Collected Work | Kaaron Warren, edited by Alisa Krasnostein | Through Splintered Walls | Twelfth Planet Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Kristin Weidenbach, illus. Timothy Ide | Tom the Outback Mailman | Lothian Children's Books, Hachette Australia |
Davitt Award | True crime | Pamela Burton | The Waterlow Killings | Melbourne University Publishing |
National Biography Award | Peter Fitzpatrick | The Two Frank Thrings | Monash University Publishing | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[28] | Non-Fiction | Richard de Crespigny | QF32 | Pan Macmillan |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | George Megalogenis | The Australian Moment | Penguin Books |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Gideon Haigh | The Office: A Hard Working History | Miegunyah |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Janet Butler | Kitty's War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton | University of Queensland Press |
Community and Regional History | Patti Miller | The Mind of a Thief | University of Queensland Press | |
General History | Saliha Belmessous | Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in the French and British Colonies, 1541–1954 | Oxford University Press | |
Young People's | Jackie French | Pennies for Hitler | HarperCollins | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | University of Queensland Press |
History | Jane Lydon | The Flash of Recognition | New South Books | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | No award | ||
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Non-fiction | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | University of Queensland Press |
Western Australian history | Margaret Simons | Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man | Penguin Books |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Anne Elder Award[35] | Elizabeth Allen | Body Language | Vagabond Press |
Mary Gilmore Prize[36] | Not awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[31] | Ali Cobby‐Eckermann | Ruby Moonlight | Magabala Books |
Queensland Literary Awards | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully | W. W. Norton |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | No award | ||
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Paul Hetherington | Six Different Windows | UWA Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Play | Reg Cribb | The Damned | The Yellow Agency |
Script | Louise Fox | Dead Europe | See Saw Films; Porchlight Films | |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Chris Summers | King Artur | |
Fellowship | Angela Betzien |