- Source: 2009 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2009.
Events
HarperCollins takes over ABC Books – the publishing arm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Caro Llewellyn, resigns as director of the new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (now called the Wheeler Centre) in Melbourne before taking up the role. Chrissy Sharp, the Australian general manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, is appointed to take her place.
The Australia-Asia Literary Award, based in Western Australia, is suspended.
Major publications
= Literary fiction
=Steven Amsterdam – Things We Didn't See Coming
Peter Carey – Parrot and Olivier in America
Steven Carroll – The Lost Life
Brian Castro – The Bath Fugues
Nick Cave – The Death of Bunny Munro
Tracy Crisp – Black Dust Dancing
Deborah Forster – The Book of Emmett
Andrea Goldsmith – Reunion
Marion Halligan – Valley of Grace
Sonya Hartnett – Butterfly
Eva Hornung – Dog Boy
Katherine Johnson – Pescador's Wake
Tom Keneally – The People's Train
Kate Legge – The Marriage Club
David Malouf – Ransom
Alex Miller – Lovesong
Jennifer Mills – The Diamond Anchor
Kristina Olsson – The China Garden
Sonia Orchard – The Virtuoso
Susan Varga – Headlong
= Children's and Young Adult fiction
=Allan Baille – Krakatoa Lighthouse
Alyssa Brugman – Girl Next Door
Judith Clarke – The Winds of Heaven
Mem Fox
Hello, Baby!
The Goblin and the Empty Chair
Odo Hirsch – Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool
Paul Jennings – The Nest
Justine Larbalestier – How to Ditch Your Fairy
Sophie Masson – The Madman of Venice
David Metzenthen – Jarvis 24
Tohby Riddle – The Lucky Ones
Sean Williams – The Scarecrow
= Crime and Mystery
=Robert G. Barrett – High Noon in Nimbin
Sydney Bauer – Move to Strike
Marshall Browne – The Iron Heart
Peter Corris – Deep Water
Garry Disher – Blood Moon
Kathryn Fox – Blood Born
Leah Giarratano – Black Ice
Bronwyn Parry – Dark Country
= Romance
=Michelle Douglas – The Aristocrat and The Single Mom
Nicola Marsh – Two Weeks in the Magnate's Bed
Katherine Scholes – The Hunter's Wife
Maxine Sullivan – Valente's Baby
= Science Fiction and Fantasy
=Trudi Canavan – The Magician's Apprentice
Greg Egan
Crystal Nights and Other Stories
Oceanic
Kim Falconer – The Spell of Rosette
Pamela Freeman – Full Circle
Traci Harding – Being of the Field
Deborah Kalin – Shadow Queen
Glenda Larke – The Last Stormlord
Juliet Marillier – Heart's Blood
K. J. Taylor – The Dark Griffin
Sean Williams – The Grand Conjunction
= Drama
=Angela Betzien – The Dark Room
Matt Cameron & Tim Finn – Poor Boy
Joanna Murray-Smith – Rockabye
Richard Tulloch – The Book of Everything
David Williamson – Let the Sunshine
= Poetry
=Emily Ballou – The Darwin Poems
Judith Beveridge – Storm and Honey
Emma Jones – The Striped World
Jennifer Maiden – Pirate Rain
Dorothy Porter – The Bee Hut
Peter Porter – Better Than God
= Biographies
=Roger Averill – Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey
Stephen Cummings – Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music
Jacqueline Kent – The Making of Julia Gillard
Harry M. Miller with Peter Holder – Harry M Miller: Confessions of a Not-So-Secret Agent
Don Walker – Shots
Jonathon Welch – Choir Man
Shirley Walker – The Ghost at the Wedding
George Whaley – Leo 'Rumpole' McKern: An Accidental Actor
Kristin Williamson – David Williamson: Behind the Scenes
Awards and honours
= Lifetime achievement
== Literary
== Fiction
=International
National
= Children and Young Adult
=National
= Crime and Mystery
=National
= Science Fiction and Fantasy
=International
National
= Poetry
== Drama
== Non-Fiction
=Deaths
14 January – Val Vallis, poet (born 1916)
3 June – Geoffrey C. Bingham, theological and short story writer (born 1919)
3 July – Frank Devine, journalist (born 1931)
6 September – Catherine Gaskin, author (born 1929 in Ireland)
8 September – Rica Erickson, botanical and historical writer (born 1908)
24 November – John West, poet (born 1951)
See also
2009 in Australia
2009 in literature
2009 in poetry
List of years in literature
List of Australian literary awards
References
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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