- Source: 2011 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011.
Events
Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts
Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day
Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011
Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club
Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund
Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) appoints Robert Adamson to hold the inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry
Major publications
= Literary fiction
=Tony Birch – Blood
Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing
Annah Faulkner – The Beloved
Anna Funder – All That I Am
Kate Grenville – Sarah Thornhill
Gail Jones – Five Bells
Jeanine Leane – Purple Threads
Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
Alex Miller – Autumn Laing
Frank Moorhouse – Cold Light
Favel Parrett – Past The Shallows
Elliot Perlman – The Street Sweeper
Craig Sherborne – The Amateur Science of Love
Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party
Charlotte Wood – Animal People
= Children's and Young Adult fiction
=Alexandra Adornetto – Hades
Em Bailey – Shift
J. C. Burke – Pig Boy
Isobelle Carmody – The Sending
Ursula Dubosarsky – The Golden Day
Scott Gardner – The Dead I Know
Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails
Andrew McGahan – The Coming of the Whirlpool
Melina Marchetta – Froi of the Exiles
Vikki Wakefield – All I Ever Wanted
Scott Westerfeld – Goliath
= Science fiction and fantasy
=Max Barry – Machine Man
Trudi Canavan – The Rogue
Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
Will Elliott – Shadow
Kim Falconer – Road to the Soul
Pamela Freeman – Ember and Ash
Richard Harland – Liberator
Glenda Larke – Stormlord's Exile
Kim Westwood – The Courier's New Bicycle
= Crime and mystery
=Alan Carter – Prime Cut
Peter Corris – Follow the Money
Garry Disher – Whispering Death
Kerry Greenwood – Cooking the Books
Stuart Littlemore – Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice
Barry Maitland – Chelsea Mansions
Kel Robertson – Rip Off
Michael Robotham – The Wreckage
= Poetry
=Ali Alizadeh – Ashes in the Air
Joanne Burns – Amphora
Barry Hill – Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings
John Kinsella – Armour
Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited)
Jaya Savige – Surface to Air
= Biography
=Julian Assange – Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
A. J. Brown – Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles
Eileen Chanin – Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907
Raimond Gaita – After Romulus
Mark McKenna – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark
Susan Mitchell – Tony Abbott: A Man's Man
Christine Nixon – Fair Cop
Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story
Alice Pung – Her Father's Daughter
David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History
Sarah Watt, William McInnes – Worse Things Happen at Sea
Awards and honours
= Lifetime achievement
== Literary
== Fiction
=International
National
= Children and Young Adult
=National
= Crime and Mystery
=National
= Science fiction
== Poetry
== Drama
== Non-Fiction
=Deaths
1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951)
15 June – Anne Godfrey-Smith, poet and theatre producer/director (born 1921)
20 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915)
2 September – Bernard Smith, art historian (born 1916)
27 September – Sara Douglass, author (born 1957)
4 October – Di Gribble, editor and publisher (born 1942)
8 December – Zelman Cowen, jurist (born 1919)
Unknown date
May – Robert J. Merritt, playwright (born 1945)
See also
2011 in Australia
2011 in literature
2011 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
List of Australian literary awards
References
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