This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014.

Major publications

Literary fiction

* Belinda Alexandra - '' Sapphire Skies'' *

Emily Bitto Emily Bitto is an Australian writer. Her debut novel ''The Strays'' won the 2015 Stella Prize for Australian women's writing. Biography Bitto was shortlisted for the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript for an emerging Victorian Writer at the 2 ...

– ''The Strays'' * Peter Carey – ''

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In Certain Circles In Certain Circles is an Australian novel by Elizabeth Harrower. Though the novel was written sometime in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was not published until 2014 when it became her first novel published in 48 years. It helped to spur a r ...

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Sonya Hartnett Sonya Louise Hartnett (born 1968) is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". For her career contribution to "children's and young adult liter ...

– '' Golden Boys'' *

Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South ...

– ''The Claimant'' *

Wendy James Wendy James (born 21 January 1966) is an English singer-songwriter most notable for her work with the pop band Transvision Vamp. Transvision Vamp Born in London to Norwegian parents, James was adopted soon after birth. She left home at the ag ...

– ''The Lost Girls'' *

Sofie Laguna Sofie Laguna (born 1968) is an Australian writer. She was born in Sydney and studied law before deciding that being a lawyer was not for her. She has worked as an actor and is now a writer and playwright. She now lives in Melbourne. Awards * ...

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The Eye of the Sheep ''The Eye of the Sheep'' is a 2014 novel by Australian novelist Sofie Laguna Sofie Laguna (born 1968) is an Australian writer. She was born in Sydney and studied law before deciding that being a lawyer was not for her. She has worked as an a ...

'' * Joan London – '' The Golden Age'' * Suzanne McCourt – ''The Lost Child'' *

Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel ''The Plains'' (1982). ''The New York Times'', in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer ...

– ''A Million Windows'' *

Omar Musa Omar bin Musa (born 9 January 1984) is a Malaysian-Australian author, poet, rapper and visual artist from Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He has released three solo hip hop records (including ''Since Ali Died'') and three books of poetr ...

– ''Here Come the Dogs'' *

Favel Parrett Favel Parrett (born 1974) is an Australian writer. Career Parrett's first novel, ''Past the Shallows'', was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2012 and also that year won the Dobbie Literary Prize and Newcomer of the Year at the Aus ...

– ''When the Night Comes'' *

Christine Piper Christine Piper is an Australian author and editor. Her first novel, ''After Darkness'', won the 2014 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. She won the 2014 Calibre Prize for an Outsta ...

– '' After Darkness'' *

Craig Sherborne Craig Sherborne (born 1962) is an Australian poet, playwright and novelist. He was born in Sydney and attended Scots College there before studying drama in London. He lives in Melbourne. Awards * ''The Ones Out of Town'', 1989 winner Wal C ...

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Tree Palace ''Tree Palace'' (2014) is a novel by Australian author Craig Sherborne. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2015. Plot summary Set in rural western Victoria, this novel deals with a group of itinerants who have congregated around ...

'' * Inga Simpson – ''Nest'' *

Graeme Simsion Graeme C. Simsion (born 1956) is an Australian author, screenwriter, playwright and data modeller. Prior to becoming an author, Simsion was an information systems consultant, co-authoring the book ''Data Modelling Essentials,'' and worked in win ...

– ''The Rosie Effect'' *

Rohan Wilson Rohan Wilson is an Australian novelist who was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania, where he currently lives. He holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. In 2003 he travelled to Jap ...

– ''To Name Those Lost''

Children's and Young Adult fiction

* Trace Balla – ''Rivertime'' * Karen Foxlee – ''Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy'' *

Morris Gleitzman Morris Gleitzman (born 9 January 1953) is an English-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction.Kerry Greenwood Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (born 1954) is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular tele ...

– ''Gallipoli'' (illustrated by Annie White) * Andy Griffiths – ''The 52-Storey Treehouse'' * Darren Groth – ''Are You Seeing Me?'' * Rebecca James – ''Cooper Batholomew is Dead'' *

Ambelin Kwaymullina Ambelin Kwaymullina (born 1975 in Perth, Western Australia) is a Palyku novelist, illustrator, and assistant professor of law at the University of Western Australia. She was born as the eldest of three children to Sally Morgan, an author and a ...

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The Lost Girl ''The Lost Girl'' is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly after writing ''Women in Love'', and worked on it only spora ...

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Alison Lester Alison Jean Lester (born 17 November 1952) is an Australian author and illustrator who has published over 25 children's picture books and two young adult novels; ''The Quickstand Pony'' and ''The Snow Pony''. In 2005 Lester won the Children's ...

– '' 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 Alice Pung (born 1981) is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Her books include the memoirs ''Unpolished Gem'' (2006), ''Her Father's Daughter'' (2011) and the novel ''Laurinda'' (2014). Pung is a practising solicitor. She has also worke ...

– ''Laurinda'' * Diana Sweeney – ''The Minnow'' * Claire Zorn – ''The Protected''

Crime

Honey Brown Honey Brown (born 1972) is an Australian novelist who grew up in Campbell Town, Tasmania. She attended Campbell Town High School and Launceston College before moving to Victoria. In 2009 she was involved in a farming accident which left her p ...

– ''Through the Cracks'' * Katherine Howell – ''Deserving Death'' *

Barry Maitland Barry Maitland (born 1941 in Scotland) is an Australian author of crime fiction. After studying architecture at Cambridge, Maitland practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia, where he became a Professor of Architecture at the ...

– ''Crucifixion Creek'' * P. M. Newton – ''Beams Falling'' *

Malla Nunn Malla Nunn is a Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter and author. Her works include the murder mysteries '' A Beautiful Place to Die'' and ''Let the Dead Lie,'' as well as the award-winning young adult novel, ''When the Ground Is Hard''. Priva ...

– ''Present Darkness'' *

Michael Rowbotham Michael Rowbotham is a political and economic writer and commentator based in the UK who is primarily known for his two books, ''The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery, and Destructive Economics'' (1998) and ''Goodbye America'' ...

– '' Life or Death''

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Trudi Canavan Trudi Canavan (born 23 October 1969) is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies ''The Black Magician (novel series), The Black Magician'' and ''Age of the Five''. While establishing her writing ...

– ''Thief's Magic'' *

Kate Forsyth Kate Forsyth (born 3 June 1966) is an Australian author. She is best known for her historical novel ''Bitter Greens'', which interweaves a retelling of the ''Rapunzel'' fairy tale with the true life story of the woman who first told the tale, ...

– ''Wolves of Witchwood'' * Patrick Holland – ''Navigato'' *

Juliet Marillier Juliet Marillier (born 27 July 1948) is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy, focusing predominantly on historical fantasy. Biography Juliet Marillier was educated at the University of Otago, where she graduated with a BA in languages and a ...

– ''The Cracks in the Kingdom'' *

Garth Nix Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the ''Old Kingdom'', '' Seventh Tower'' and '' Keys to the Kingdom'' series. He has frequently been asked if his ...

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Clariel The Old Kingdom, or Abhorsen in North America, is a fantasy series written by Australian author Garth Nix. It originated in 1995 with the novel ''Sabriel'' and has continued in the novels ''Lirael'' (2001), ''Abhorsen'' (2003) and ''Goldenhand'' ...

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Matthew Reilly Matthew John Reilly (born 2 July 1974) is an internationally bestselling Australian action thriller writer.
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– '' The Great Zoo of China'' * John A. Scott – ''N''

Drama

Michael Gow Michael Gow is an Australian playwright and director most famed for his 1986 work '' Away''. Early life As a student at Sydney University, Gow acted and directed with the Dramatic Society from 1973-1976. After graduation, Gow went on to act pro ...

– ''Once in Royal David's City'' * Daniel Keene – ''The Long Way Home''

Poetry

Judith Beveridge Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She ...

– ''Devadatta's Poems'' *

Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford (9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927) was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. Biography Lesbia Venner Keogh was the first child of Edmund Joseph Keogh and Beatrice Eleanor Moore, great-great-granddaughter of an Earl of ...

– ''Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford'' (edited by Oliver Dennis) *

Gwen Harwood Gwen Harwood (née Gwendoline Nessie Foster, 8 June 19205 December 1995) was an Australian poet and librettist. Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won nu ...

– ''The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood'' * John Kinsella – ''Sack'' * Geoffrey Lehmann – ''Poems 1957–2013'' *

Jennifer Maiden Jennifer Maiden (born 1949) is an Australian poet. She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 36 books published: 28 poetry collections, 6 novels and 2 nonfiction works. Her current publishers are Quemar Press in Australia and Blooda ...

– ''Drones and Phantoms'' *

David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf AO (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Quee ...

– ''Earth Hour'' *

Chris Wallace-Crabbe Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Ken ...

– ''My Feet are Hungry''

Biographies

Bob Brown Robert James Brown (born 27 December 1944) is a former Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist. He was a senator and the parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasman ...

– ''Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action'' * Phil Butterss – ''An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis'' *

Matthew Condon Matthew Condon (born 1962) is a prize-winning Australian writer and journalist. Biography Educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany, he is the author of ten novels and short story collections, includi ...

– ''Jacks and Jokers'' *

Robert Dessaix Robert Dessaix (born 17 February 1944) is an Australian novelist, essayist and journalist. Biography Robert Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age by Tom and Jean Jones, after which he was known as Robert Jones. Tom Jones, a ...

– ''What Days Are For'' * Rafael Epstein – ''Prisoner X'' *

Julia Gillard Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013, holding office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She is the first and only ...

– '' My Story'' * Dino Hodge – ''Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography'' *

John Howard John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the s ...

– ''The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia'' *

Madonna King Madonna King is an Australian journalist, author and media commentator. From 2006 until 2011, King presented ''Mornings'' on ABC Radio Brisbane. As an author, King has published several books, including the biographies of notable Australians Ia ...

– ''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

Paul Barry Paul James Barry (born 24 February 1952) is an English-born, Australian-based journalist, newsreader and television presenter, who has won many awards for his investigative reporting. He previously worked for the BBC on numerous programs, bef ...

– ''Breaking News : Sex, lies & the Murdoch succession'' *

Sophie Cunningham Sophie Cunningham is an Australian writer and editor based in Melbourne. She is the current Chair of the Board of the Australian Society of Authors, the national peak body representing Australian authors. Career Publisher Cunningham was pub ...

– ''Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy'' * Paul Kelly – ''Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation'' *

Bruce Pascoe Bruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. Since August 2 ...

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Dark Emu ''Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?'' is a 2014 non-fiction book by Bruce Pascoe. It reexamines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia, and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture, engineering and building constr ...

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

* 14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist (born 1935) * 10 April –

Doris Pilkington Garimara Doris Pilkington Garimara (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author. Garimara wrote ''Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence'' (1996), a story about the stolen generation, and base ...

, 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 Moses "Morris" Lurie (30 October 19388 October 2014) was an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generati ...

, novelist (born 1938) *3 November – Michael Fitzgerald Page, writer and publisher (born 1922)

References

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Major publications

Literary fiction

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Crime

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Drama

Poetry

Biographies

Non-fiction

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

See also

References