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2011 in Australian literature

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

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Events

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

    • 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
  • 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

    • Deaths

  • 1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951)
  • 20 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915)
  • 2 September – Bernard Smith, poet (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)

    • References

    2011 in Australian literature Wikipedia
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