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2014 in Australian literature

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

Contents

Literary fiction

  • Emily Bitto – The Strays
  • Peter Carey – Amnesia
  • Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles
  • Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys
  • Janette Turner Hospital – The Claimant
  • Wendy James – The Lost Girls
  • Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep
  • Joan London – The Golden Age
  • Suzanne McCourt – The Lost Child
  • Gerald Murnane – A Million Windows
  • Omar Musa – Here Come the Dogs
  • Favel Parrett – When the Night Comes
  • Christine Piper – After Darkness
  • Craig Sherborne – Tree Palace
  • Inga Simpson – Nest
  • Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect
  • Rohan Wilson – To Name Those Lost

    • Children's and Young Adult fiction

  • Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
  • Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures
  • Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli (illustrated by Annie White)
  • Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse
  • Darren Groth – Are You Seeing Me?
  • Rebecca James – Cooper Batholomew is Dead
  • Rebecca Lim – The Astrologer's Daughter
  • Doug MacLeod – Tigers on the Beach
  • John Marsden – South of Darkness
  • Alice Pung – Laurinda
  • Diana Sweeney – The Minnow
  • Claire Zorn – The Protected

    • Crime

  • Honey Brown – Through the Cracks
  • Katherine Howell – Deserving Death
  • Barry Maitland – Crucifixion Creek
  • P. M. Newton – Beams Falling
  • Malla Nunn – Present Darkness
  • Michael Rowbotham – Life or Death

    • Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • Trudi Canavan – Thief's Magic
  • Kate Forsyth – Wolves of Witchwood
  • Patrick Holland – Navigato
  • Juliet Marillier – The Cracks in the Kingdom
  • Garth Nix – Clariel
  • Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China
  • John A. Scott – N

    • Drama

  • Michael Gow – Once in Royal David's City
  • Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home

    • Poetry

  • Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems
  • Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford (edited by Oliver Dennis)
  • Gwen Harwood – The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
  • John Kinsella – Sack
  • Geoffrey Lehmann – Poems 1957–2013
  • Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
  • David Malouf – Earth Hour
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe – My Feet are Hungry

    • Biographies

  • Bob Brown – Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action
  • Phil Butterss – An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis
  • Matthew Condon – Jacks and Jokers
  • Robert Dessaix – What Days Are For
  • Rafael Epstein – Prisoner X
  • Julia Gillard – My Story
  • Dino Hodge – Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography
  • John Howard – The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia
  • Elizabeth Morrison – David Syme : Man of the Age
  • Mandy Sayer – The Poet's Wife
  • David Walsh – A Bone of Fact

    • Awards and honours

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

    Deaths

  • 14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist (born 1935)
  • 17 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (born 1957)
  • 8 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (born 1938)

    • References

    2014 in Australian literature Wikipedia
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