- Source: 1981 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1981.
Events
Peter Carey won the 1981 Miles Franklin Award for Bliss
Major publications
= Literary novels
=Peter Carey — Bliss
Blanche d'Alpuget — Turtle Beach
David Foster — Moonlite
Miles Franklin — On Dearborn Street
David Ireland — City of Women
Elizabeth Jolley — The Newspaper of Claremont Street
Colleen McCullough — An Indecent Obsession
Morris West — The Clowns of God
= Crime and mystery
=Marshall Browne — Dragon Strike
Peter Corris — White Meat
= Science fiction and fantasy
=John Brosnan — Skyship
David Lake — The Man Who Loved Morlocks
Keith Taylor — Bard
George Turner — Vaneglory
= Children's and young adult fiction
=Jan Ormerod — Sunshine
Ruth Park — The Muddle-Headed Wombat is Very Bad
Eleanor Spence – The Seventh Pebble
Colin Thiele — The Valley Between
= Poetry
=Alan Gould — Astral Sea
Gwen Harwood — The Lion's Bride
Geoffrey Lehmann — Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero
= Drama
=Louis Nowra
Inside The Island
The Precious Woman
= Non-fiction
=Albert Facey — A Fortunate Life
Henry Reynolds — The Other Side of the Frontier
Eric Charles Rolls — A Million Wild Acres
Gavin Souter — A Company of Heralds
Patrick White — Flaws in the Glass
Awards and honours
= Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
=A. D. Hope
= Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
=Dymphna Cusack
Beatrice Deloitte Davis
David Ireland
Jack Lindsay
Alan Marshall
Stephen Murray-Smith
Leslie Rees
Ivan Southall
Joan Woodberry
= Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
=Walter W. Stone
= Lifetime achievement award
== Literary
== Fiction
== Children and Young Adult
== Poetry
== Non-fiction
=Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1981 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
7 April — Lili Wilkinson, author of young adult fiction
Unknown date
Alice Pung, novelist and memoir writer, editor and lawyer
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1981 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
14 January — John O'Grady, writer, best known as Nino Culotta, author of They're a Weird Mob (born 1907)
29 March — Clive Sansom, poet and playwright (born 1910)
19 April — Louis Kaye, novelist and short story writer (born 1901)
29 April — Leonard Mann, poet and novelist (born 1895)
29 August — Wal Stone, book publisher, collector and supporter of Australian literature (born 1910)
19 October — Dymphna Cusack, novelist and playwright (born 1902)
Unknown date
Edith Mary England, novelist and poet (born 1899)
Ada Verdun Howell, author and poet (born 1902)
See also
1981 in Australia
1981 in literature
1981 in poetry
List of years in literature
List of years in Australian literature
References
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