- Source: 1989 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1989.
Events
Peter Carey won the Miles Franklin Award for Oscar and Lucinda
Major publications
= Novels
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Jessica Anderson — Taking Shelter
Mena Calthorpe — The Plain of Ala
Bryce Courtenay — The Power of One
Tom Flood — Oceana Fine
Peter Goldsworthy — Maestro
Elizabeth Jolley — My Father's Moon
Tom Keneally — Towards Asmara
Amy Witting — I for Isobel
= Short story anthologies
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Liam Davison — The Shipwreck Party
Brian Matthews — Quickening and Other Stories
= Crime and mystery
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Kerry Greenwood — Cocaine Blues, the first in the Phryne Fisher series.
Jennifer Rowe — Murder by the Book
= Science fiction and fantasy
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Judith Clarke — The Boy on the Lake : Stories
Greg Egan – "The Cutie"
Rosaleen Love — The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
= Children's and young adult fiction
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Graeme Base — The Eleventh Hour
Morris Gleitzman — Two Weeks with the Queen
= Poetry
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Robert Adamson — The Clean Dark
Dorothy Hewett — A Tremendous World in Her Head: Selected Poems
Dorothy Porter — Driving Too Fast
Peter Porter — Possible Worlds
Peter Skrzynecki — "Night Swim"
= Drama
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Nick Enright — Daylight Saving
Jenny Kemp — Call of the Wild
Peta Murray
Spitting Chips
Wallflowering
David Williamson — Top Silk
= Non-fiction
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Jill Ker Conway — The Road from Coorain
Adam Shoemaker — Black Words, White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988
Elisabeth Wynhausen — Manly Girls
Awards and honours
Mary Durack , for "service to the community and literature"
Les Murray (poet) , for "service to Australian literature"
Thomas Shapcott , for "service to Australian literature and to arts administration"
Gwen Harwood , for "service to literature, particularly as a poet and librettist"
Max Harris (poet) , for "service to literature"
Clement Semmler , for "service to Australian literature"
John Morrison (writer) , for "service to literature"
= Lifetime achievement
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= Literary
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= Fiction
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International
National
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= Children and Young Adult
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= Non-fiction
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Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1989 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
2 June — Will Kostakis, author and journalist
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1989 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
3 June – Connie Christie, children's writer/illustrator, photographer and commercial artist (born 1908 in England)
16 August – Donald Friend, artist and diarist (born 1914)
See also
1989 in Australia
1989 in literature
1989 in poetry
List of years in literature
List of years in Australian literature
References
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