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2013 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013.

Contents

Events

  • James Ley launches the Sydney Review of Books in order to provide "an opportunity for Australia’s critics to rediscover the art of literary criticism".
  • The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize are announced.
  • The shortlist of the Miles Franklin Award contains only female writers for the first time.
  • Nicole Bourke, writing under the pseudonym "N. A. Sulway", becomes the first Australian writer to win the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for her novel Rupetta.
  • Aora Children’s Literature Research Centre in Sydney closes after 12 years of operation.

    • Literary fiction

  • Deborah Adelaide – Letter to George Clooney
  • Steven Carroll – A World of Other People
  • J. M. Coetzee – The Childhood of Jesus
  • Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • Andrea Goldsmith – The Memory Trap
  • Ashley Hay – The Railwayman's Wife
  • Tom Keneally – Shame and the Captives
  • Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
  • Melissa Lucashenko – Mullumbimby
  • Colleen McCullough – Bittersweet
  • Fiona McFarlane – The Night Guest
  • Alex Miller – Coal Creek
  • Di Morrissey – The Winter Sea
  • Cory Taylor – My Beautiful Enemy
  • Christos Tsiolkas – Barracuda
  • Tim Winton – Eyrie
  • Alexis Wright – The Swan Book
  • Evie Wyld – All The Birds, Singing

    • Children's and young adult fiction

  • Alyssa Brugman – Alex as Well
  • J. C. Burke – Pretty Girl
  • Kerry Greenwood – Evan's Gallipoli: A Gripping Story of Unlikely Friendship and an Incredible Journey behind Enemy Lines
  • Richard Harland – Song of the Slums
  • Karen Healey – When We Wake
  • Melissa Keil – Life in Outer Space
  • Felicity Volk – Lightning
  • Fiona Anne Wood – Wildlife

    • Science fiction and fantasy

  • Max Barry – Lexicon
  • Greg Egan – The Arrows of Time
  • Jennifer Fallon – Reunion
  • Traci Harding – Dreaming of Zhou Gong
  • Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: Safe Art
  • Fiona McIntosh – The Scrivener's Tale
  • Juliet Marillier – The Caller
  • James Phelan – 13
  • N. A. Sulway – Rupetta

    • Crime and mystery

  • Honey Brown – Dark Horse
  • Peter Corris – The Dunbar Case
  • Garry Disher – Bitter Wash Road
  • Karen Foxlee – The Midnight Dress
  • Poppy Gee – Bay of Fires
  • Katherine Howell – Web of Deceit
  • Stuart Littlemore —Harry Curry: Rats and Mice
  • Adrian McKinty – I Hear the Sirens in the Street
  • Barry Maitland – The Raven's Eye
  • Matthew Reilly – The Tournament
  • Michael Robotham – Watching You
  • Angela Savage – The Dying Beach
  • David Whish-Wilson – Zero at the Bone
  • Chris Womersley – Cairo

    • Poetry

  • Pamela Brown – Home by Dark
  • Lisa Gorton
  • The Best Australian Poems 2013
  • Hotel Hyperion
  • John Kinsella – The Vision of Error: A Sextet of Activist Poems
  • Kate Middleton – Ephemeral Waters
  • Geoff Page
  • 1953
  • New Selected Poems
  • Dorothy Porter – The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe – New and Selected Poems

    • Biography

  • Alison Alexander – The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer
  • Andrew Burell – Twiggy: The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest
  • Gabrielle Carey – Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family
  • Matthew Condon – Three Crooked Kings
  • David Day – Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson
  • Stephen Dando-Collins – Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus
  • Susanna de Vries – Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front
  • Jesse Fink – The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC
  • Peter FitzSimons – Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend
  • David Marr – The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell
  • Kris Olsson – Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
  • Michael Pembroke – Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy
  • John Safran – Murder in Mississippi: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book
  • Margaret Simons – Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man
  • Helen Trinca – Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St. John
  • Clare Wright – The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka

    • Deaths

  • 23 January – Graham Stone, bibliographer (born 1926)
  • 23 May – Hazel Hawke, memoirist (born 1929)
  • 16 July – Christopher Koch, novelist (born 1932)
  • 9 October – Mark "Chopper" Read, writer (born 1954)

    • References

    2013 in Australian literature Wikipedia
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