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This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.


Major publications


Literary fiction

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Robbie Arnott Robbie or Robby is a surname. It is usually encountered as a nickname or a shortened form of Robert, Rob or Robin. The name experienced a significant rise in popularity in Northern Ireland in 2003. People Given name Robbie *Robbie Amell (born 19 ...
, ''Limberlost'' * Jessica Au, ''
Cold Enough for Snow ''Cold Enough for Snow'' is a 2022 novel by Jessica Au. It won the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in the Fiction and Overall categories. It was also shortlisted for the 2023 Miles Fra ...
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Jane Caro Catherine Jane Caro (born 24 June 1957) is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia. Early life and education Caro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963. ...
, ''The Mother'' *
Steven Carroll Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for ''The Sunday Age'' new ...
, ''Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight'' * Shankari Chandran, ''Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'' (winner, 2023
Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...
) * Robert Drewe, ''Nimblefoot'' * Katerina Gibson, ''Women I Know'' (winner, 2023
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, t ...
) *
Robert Lukins Robert Lukins is an Australian writer. Career Lukins' debut novel ''The Everlasting Sunday'' was released by UQ Press in 2018 and received favourable reviews in major Australian publications and on Radio National's The Book Show. The book wa ...
, ''Loveland'' * Fiona Kelly McGregor, ''Iris'' *
Edwina Preston Edwina Preston is a Melbourne-based writer and musician. Preston is the author of a biography of Australian artist Howard Arkley, ''Not Just a Suburban Boy'' (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002), and the novel ''The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer'' (Universi ...
, ''Bad Art Mother'' *
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 ...
, ''The Grass Hotel'' *
Steve Toltz Steve Toltz (born 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian novelist. Works ''A Fraction of the Whole'', his first novel, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It is a comic novel which tells the history of a family of Australian outcasts ...
, ''Here Goes Nothing''


Short story collections

* Mirandi Riwoe, ''The Burnished Sun''


Non-Fiction

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Alison Bashford Alison Caroline Bashford, (born 1963) is an historian specialising in global history and the history of science. She is Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Popula ...
, ''An Intimate History of Evolution: The Huxleys in Nature and Culture'' * Debra Dank, ''We Come With This Place'' *
Jo Dyer Jo Dyer (born 1969) is an Australian theatre and film producer, and director of Adelaide Writers' Week from 2019 to 2022. She is known for the films ''Lucky Miles'' (2007) and '' Girl Asleep'' (2015). In 2021 she was involved in a legal case re ...
, ''Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics'' *
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 ...
, ''L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood'' * Julianne Schulz, ''The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation''


Children's and young adult fiction

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Lian Tanner Lian Tanner (born 17 March 1951 in Tasmania, Australia) is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania. Tanner is the author of the fantasy Keepers trilogy of children's books. ''Museum of Thieves'' the first book in the serie ...
, ''Rita’s Revenge''


Crime

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Dervla McTiernan Dervla McTiernan (born c.1977) is an Irish crime novelist. Biography Dervla McTiernan was born c.1977 in County Cork, growing up initially in Carrigaline and Douglas before her father's work in the bank took her to Dublin, aged six, and then Li ...
, ''The Murder Rule''


Poetry

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Adam Aitken Adam Aitken is an Australian poet. Early life Australian writer Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960. He spent his early childhood with relatives in Thailand, and was educated at a convent in Malaysia, then a school in Perth Western Austral ...
, ''Revenants'' *
Boey Kim Cheng Boey Kim Cheng (; born 1965) is a Singaporean Australian poet. As a student, Boey won the National University of Singapore Poetry Writing/Creative Prose Competition and has since received the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award (1996 ...
, ''The Singer and Other Poems'' *
Marion May Campbell Marion May Campbell (born 1948) is a contemporary Australian novelist and an academician. Biography Marion May Campbell was born in Sydney, New South Wales, 1948. Campbell earned a BA in French Literature studying first at the University of N ...
, ''Languish'' * Lisa Gorton, ''Miribilia'' * Sarah Holland-Batt, ''The Jaguar'' * John Kinsella, ''The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)'' * Les Murray, ''Continuous Creation''


Memoir

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Hannah Gadsby Hannah Gadsby (born 1978) is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress. She began her career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. In 2018, her show '' Nanette'' on Netflix won ...
, ''Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation'' * Anita Heiss, ''Am I Black Enough For You? Ten years on'' * Chloe Hooper, ''Bedtime Story'' *
Anita Jacoby Anita Jacoby, is an Australian television producer and journalist. Life Jacoby was born in Sydney, Australia, the daughter of political refugees displaced through the Second World War. Her father was born in Heinrichswalde, Germany, and h ...
, ''Secrets Beyond the Screen'' * Wendy McCarthy, ''Don't Be Too Polite, Girls'' *
Brenda Niall Dr Brenda Mary Niall (born 25 November 1930) is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is particularly noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers. Educated at Genazzano FCJ College, ...
, ''My Accidental Career'' * Heather Rose, ''Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here''


Awards and honours

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


Lifetime achievement


Fiction


Children and Young Adult


Crime and Mystery


National


Non-Fiction


Poetry


Drama


Deaths

* 22 January –
Craig McGregor Craig Rob Roy McGregor (12 October 1933 – 22 January 2022) was an Australian journalist, essayist, academic, cultural observer and critic. Life and career McGregor grew up in Jamberoo and then Gundagai in New South Wales, before his family mo ...
, journalist and writer (born
1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
) * 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born
1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...
) * 1 March –
Jordie Albiston Jordie Albiston (30 September 1961 – 28 February 2022) was an Australian poet. Early life Jordie Albiston grew up in Melbourne, the second of four children. She studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing a doct ...
, poet (born
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...
) * 8 March –
Annah Faulkner Annah Faulkner (1949/1950 – 8 March 2022) was an Australian novelist. At the age of five, Faulkner moved with her parents to Papua New Guinea and later lived on Queensland's Sunshine Coast with her husband. She died in March 2022, after lea ...
, novelist (born 1949/50) * 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born
1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
) * 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born
1938 Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
) * 14 July –
Clem Tisdell Clement Allan Tisdell (18 November 1939 – 14 July 2022 ) was an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. He was best known for his work in environmental and ecological economics. Personal life Tisdell was ...
, economist (born
1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to ...
) * 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of
Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...
(born
1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...
) * 27 July – Edwin Wilson – poet, painter, scientist (born
1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
) * 3 August ** Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born
1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
) ** Evan Jones, poet and academic (born
1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...
) * 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born
1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
) * 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
) * 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born
1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...
) * 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
) * 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born
1938 Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
) * 24 November –
Margaret Hamilton Margaret Hamilton may refer to: * Margaret Hamilton (nurse) (1840–1922), American nurse in the Civil War * Maggie Hamilton (1867–1952), Scottish artist * Margaret Hamilton (educator) (1871–1969), American educator * Margaret Hamilton (actre ...
, children's literature publisher and writer (born
1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
) * 2 December **
Jill Jolliffe Jill Jolliffe (7 February 1945 – 2 December 2022) was an Australian journalist and author who reported on East Timor since 1975. She was the author of ''Finding Santana'' and ''Balibo''. Education and career Educated at Geelong High School and ...
, journalist and non-fiction writer (born
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
) **
Antigone Kefala Antigone Kefala (28 May 1931 – 3 December 2022) was an Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and is acknowledged as being an important voice in capturing ...
, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born
1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...
) * 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
)


See also

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2022 in Australia The following is a list of events including expected and scheduled events for the year 2022 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II (until 8 September), then Charles III *Governor-General – David Hurley *Prime Minister – Sco ...
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2022 in literature This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022. Events *1 January – The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all ...
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2022 in poetry Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2022 are outlined below under different sections. These include poetry books released during the year in different languages, major poetry awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniv ...
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List of years in Australian literature This page gives a chronological list of years in Australian literature (descending order), with notable publications and events listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers the period of European settlement of ...
* List of years in literature


References

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