2011 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011.

Events

*Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-CrabbeAustralian Writers Named in Queen's Birthday Honours
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*Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of ArtsKeneally's Library Finds New Home
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*Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading
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*Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day
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* Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011
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*Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre ClubHannie Rayson Wins New York Commission
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*Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary FundHazel Rowley's Literary Legacy
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* Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s LaureatesAustralia's First Children's Laureates Announced
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*The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) appoints Robert Adamson to hold the inaugural CAL Chair in Australian PoetryUTS Appoints Inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry
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Major publications

Literary fiction

* Tony Birch – ''Blood''
* Geraldine Brooks – ''Caleb's Crossing''
* Annah Faulkner – ''The Beloved''
* Anna Funder – '' All That I Am''
* Kate Grenville – '' Sarah Thornhill''
* Gail Jones – '' Five Bells''
* Jeanine Leane – ''Purple Threads''
* Gillian Mears – ''Foal's Bread''
* Alex Miller – '' Autumn Laing''
* Frank Moorhouse – ''Cold Light''
* Favel Parrett – '' Past The Shallows''
* Elliot Perlman – ''The Street Sweeper''
* Craig Sherborne – ''The Amateur Science of Love''
* Rohan Wilson – ''The Roving Party''
* Charlotte Wood – ''Animal People''

Children's and Young Adult fiction

* Alexandra Adornetto – ''Hades''
* Em Bailey – ''Shift''
* J. C. Burke – '' Pig Boy''
* Isobelle Carmody – '' The Sending''
* Ursula Dubosarsky – '' The Golden Day''
* Scott Gardner – ''The Dead I Know''
* Steven Herrick – ''Black Painted Fingernails''
* Andrew McGahan – ''The Coming of the Whirlpool''
* Melina Marchetta – ''Froi of the Exiles''
* Vikki Wakefield – ''All I Ever Wanted''
* Scott Westerfeld – '' Goliath''

Science Fiction and Fantasy

* Max Barry – '' Machine Man''
* Trudi Canavan – '' The Rogue''
* Peter Docker – ''The Water Boys''
* Greg Egan – ''The Clockwork Rocket''
* Will Elliott – ''Shadow''
* Kim Falconer – ''Road to the Soul''
* Pamela Freeman – ''Ember and Ash''
* Richard Harland – ''Liberator''
* Glenda Larke – ''Stormlord's Exile''
* Kim Westwood – ''The Courier's New Bicycle''

Crime and Mystery

* Alan Carter – ''Prime Cut''
* Peter Corris – ''Follow the Money''
* Garry Disher – ''Whispering Death''
* Kerry Greenwood – ''Cooking the Books''
* Stuart Littlemore – ''Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice''
* Barry Maitland – ''Chelsea Mansion''
* Kel Robertson – ''Rip Off''
* Michael Robotham – ''The Wreckage''

Poetry

* Ali Alizadeh – ''Ashes in the Air''
* Joanne Burns – ''Amphora''
* Barry Hill – ''Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings''
* John Kinsella – ''Armour''
* Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – ''Australian Poetry Since 1788'' (edited)
* Jaya Savige – ''Surface to Air''

Biography

* Julian Assange – ''Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography''
* A. J. Brown – ''Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles''
* Eileen Chanin – ''Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907''
* Raimond Gaita – ''After Romulus''
* Mark McKenna – ''An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark''
* Susan Mitchell – ''Tony Abbott: A Man's Man''
* Christine Nixon – ''Fair Cop''
* Sue Pieters-Hawke – ''Hazel: My Mother's Story''
* Alice Pung – ''Her Father's Daughter''
* David Robert Walker – ''Not Dark Yet: A Personal History''
* Sarah Watt, William McInnes – ''Worse Things Happen at Sea''

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

* 1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951)
* 15 June – Anne Godfrey-Smith, poet and theatre producer/director (born 1921)
* 19 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915)
* 2 September – Bernard Smith, art historian (born 1916)
* 27 September – Sara Douglass, author (born 1957)
* 4 October – Di Gribble, editor and publisher (born 1942)
* 8 December – Zelman Cowen, jurist (born 1919)
Unknown date

* May – Robert J. Merritt, playwright (born 1945)

See also

* Literature
* List of years in Australian literature
* List of Australian literary awards
* 2011 in Australia
* 2011 in literature
* 2011 in poetry

References

{{Years in Australian literature
Literature
Australian literature by year
21st-century Australian literature
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