- Source: 1999 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1999.
Events
Murray Bail won the Miles Franklin Award for Eucalyptus
Jan Fullerton was appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia, being the first woman and first internal appointee
Major publications
= Novels
=Thea Astley — Drylands
Lily Brett — Too Many Men
Marshall Browne – The Burnt City
Kate Grenville — The Idea of Perfection
Dorothy Hewett — Neap Tide
Julia Leigh — The Hunter
Bruce Pascoe — Shark
Dorothy Porter — What a Piece of Work
Matthew Reilly — Ice Station
Heather Rose — White Heart
Kim Scott — Benang
Amy Witting — Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
= Science fiction and fantasy
=James Bradley — The Deep Field
Sara Douglass — Crusader
Kate Forsyth – The Cursed Towers
Greg Egan
"Border Guards"
Teranesia
Ian Irvine — Dark is the Moon
Juliet Marillier – Daughter of the Forest
Sean McMullen – Souls in the Great Machine
George Turner – Down There in Darkness
= Crime
=Marshall Browne — The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
Garry Disher — The Dragon Man
Kerry Greenwood – Death Before Wicket
Gabrielle Lord – Feeding the Demons
Barry Maitland – The Chalon Heads
Tara Moss – Fetish
Chris Nyst — Cop This!
Peter Temple
Black Tide
Shooting Star
= Children's and young adult fiction
=Helen Barnes — Killing Aurora
Graeme Base — The Worst Band in the Universe
Kim Caraher — Goanna Anna
Nick Earls — 48 Shades of Brown
Christine Harris — Foreign Devil
Sonya Hartnett — Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
Victor Kelleher — The Ivory Trail
Markus Zusak — The Underdog
= Poetry
=Kevin Hart — Wicked Heat
John Kinsella — Visitants
Jennifer Maiden — Mines
Les Murray — Conscious and Verbal
= Drama
=Van Badham — The Wilderness of Mirrors
= Non-fiction
=Ian McFarlane — Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop
Drusilla Modjeska — Stravinsky's Lunch
Les Murray — The Quality of Sprawl: Thoughts about Australia
Anne Summers — Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945–1976
David Walker— Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850–1939
Awards and honours
Michael Fitzgerald Page "for service to the book publishing industry and to literature as a writer, and through the encouragement and support of upcoming Australian authors"
Frank John Ford "for service to the development of the performing arts in South Australia as a director, playwright, administrator and educator"
Kay Saunders "for service to Australian history as a scholar, author and commentator on social issues"
John Antill Millett "for service to literature as editor of Poetry Australia"
= Lifetime achievement
== Literary
== Fiction
=International
National
= Crime and Mystery
=National
= Poetry
== 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 1999 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
15 February — Gordon Neil Stewart, writer (born 1912)
1 March — Richard Beynon, playwright, actor and television producer (born 1925)
20 April — Ric Throssell, diplomat and author whose writings included novels, plays, film and television scripts and memoirs (born 1922)
8 July — Mavis Thorpe Clark, novelist and writer for children (born 1909)
12 July — Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, journalist, broadcaster and poet (born 1913)
9 October — Morris West, novelist and playwright (born 1916)
16 November — Mal Morgan, poet (born 1936, London, England)
See also
1999 in Australia
1999 in literature
1999 in poetry
List of years in literature
List of years in Australian literature
References
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