- Source: 1984 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1984.
Events
Tim Winton’s Shallows won the 1984 Miles Franklin Award
Major publications
= Novels
=Helen Garner — The Children's Bach
Nicholas Hasluck — The Bellarmine Jug
David Ireland — Archimedes and the Seagle
Peter Kocan — The Treatment; and, the Cure
Elizabeth Jolley — Milk and Honey
Amanda Lohrey — The Morality of Gentlemen
David Malouf — Harland's Half Acre
Jill Neville — Last Ferry to Manly
Randolph Stow — The Suburbs of Hell
Tim Winton — Shallows
= Crime and mystery
=Marshall Browne — Dark Harbour
Evan Green — Alice to Nowhere
Tony Kenrick — Blast
William Marshall — The Far Away Man
= Science fiction and fantasy
=A. Bertram Chandler — The Wild Ones
Victor Kelleher — The Beast of Heaven
Keith Taylor — Bard II
Cherry Wilder
A Princess of the Chameln
Yorath the Wolf
= Short story anthologies
=John Morrison — Stories of the Waterfront
= Children's and young adult fiction
=James Aldridge — The True Story of Lilli Stubeck
Robin Klein — Hating Alison Ashley
Emily Rodda — Something Special
Nadia Wheatley — Dancing in the Anzac Deli
= Poetry
=Doris Brett — The Truth about Unicorns
Rosemary Dobson — The Three Fates & Other Poems
Robert Gray — The Skylight
Kevin Hart — Your Shadow
Dorothy Porter — The Night Parrot
Awards and honours
Nancy Cato , for "service to Australian literature"
John Manifold , for "service literature as a poet and musician
Dorothy Auchterlonie Green , for "service to Australian literature"
= Lifetime achievement
== Literary awards
== Fiction awards
== Poetry
== Children and Young Adult
== Drama
== Non-fiction
=Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1984 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
21 January — Alan Marshall, writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter (born 1902)
12 March — Peg Maltby, artist, book illustrator and children's writer (born 1899 in England)
6 June — A. Bertram Chandler, mariner-turned-science fiction writer (born 1912)
24 June — Francis Brabazon, poet and member of Meher Baba's mandali (born 1907)
29 September — Hal Porter, novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer (1911)
10 November — Xavier Herbert, writer (born 1901)
10 December — Jean Campbell, novelist (born 1901)
23 December — Joan Lindsay, novelist, playwright, essayist and visual artist (born 1896)
See also
1984 in Australia
1984 in literature
1984 in poetry
List of years in literature
List of years in Australian literature
References
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