- Source: 2012 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2012.
Events
Clive James is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to literature and the media" in the Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours List.
Five literary figures are named in the Australia Day Honours: Paul Brunton, Stuart Macintyre, Roy Masters, Ros Pesman and Carol Woodrow.
Peter Carey is the recipient of the Bodleian Libraries' 2012 Bodley Medal. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford "to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active: literature, culture, science, and communication".
Incoming Premier Campbell Newman cancels the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
In response, a week later, the new Queensland Literary Awards are announced. The awards use a crowd-funding campaign to raise the prize-money for their initial set of awards.
Sophie Cunningham is appointed as the new head of the Australian Literature Board.
In the Queen's Birthday Honours, Peter Carey, Barbara Blackman, Rolf Harris, and Liz Jones were appointed Officers of the Order of Australia (AO), Grahame Bond and Peter Steele were appointed Members of the Order of Australia (AM), and Peter Singer was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
Text Publishing launches its Text Classics line, reprinting Australian literary classics.
Melbourne City Council unveils "Literature Lane", a small laneway off Little LaTrobe Street near the State Library of Victoria, in recognition of Melbourne's status as a UNESCO City of Literature.
The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry was discontinued.
Major publications
= Literary fiction
=Romy Ash – Floundering
Murray Bail – The Voyage
Peter Carey – The Chemistry of Tears
Brian Castro – Street to Street
Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel
Annah Faulkner – The Beloved
Susan Johnson – My Hundred Lovers
Toni Jordan – Nine Days
Tom Keneally – The Daughters of Mars
Christopher Koch – Lost Voices
Drusilla Modjeska – The Mountain
Stephanie Radok – An Opening: twelve love stories about art
Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Project
M. L. Stedman – The Light Between Oceans
Carrie Tiffany – Mateship with Birds
Patrick White – The Hanging Garden
Sue Woolfe – The Oldest Song in the World
= Children's and Young Adult fiction
=Michael Gerard Bauer – Epic Fail
Mem Fox
Good Night, Sleep Tight
Tell Me About Your Day Today
Two Little Monkeys
Jackie French – Pennies for Hitler
Morris Gleitzman – After
Sonya Hartnett – Children of the King
Steven Herrick – Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend
Doug MacLeod – The Shiny Guys
Emily Rodda – The Silver Door
Carole Wilkinson – Blood Brothers
= Science Fiction and Fantasy
=John Birmingham – Stalin's Hammer: Rome
Trudi Canavan – The Traitor Queen
Greg Egan – The Eternal Flame
Will Elliott – Nightfall
Jennifer Fallon – The Dark Divide
Ian Irvine – Rebellion
Margo Lanagan – Sea Hearts
Jaclyn Moriarty – A Corner of White
Garth Nix – A Confusion of Princes
= Crime and Mystery
=Jessie Cole – Darkness on the Edge of Town
Peter Corris – Comeback
Kathryn Fox – Cold Grave
Kerry Greenwood – Unnatural Habits
Katherine Howell – Silent Fear
L. A. Larkin – Thirst
Gabrielle Lord – Death by Beauty
Zane Lovitt – The Midnight Promise
Colleen McCullough – The Prodigal Son
Geoffrey McGeachin – Blackwattle Creek
Adrian McKinty – The Cold, Cold Ground
Tara Moss – Assassin
Malla Nunn – Silent Valley
Michael Robotham – Say You're Sorry
= Poetry
=Rosemary Dobson – Rosemary Dobson: Collected
Kate Fagan (poet) – First Light
Robert Gray – Cumulus: Collected Poems
John Kinsella – Jam Tree Gully: Poems
Kate Lilley – Ladylike
Rhyll McMaster – Late Night Shopping
Jennifer Maiden – Liquid Nitrogen
Les Murray ed. – The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001–2010
John Shaw Neilson – Collected Verse of John Shaw Neilson
Peter Rose – Crimson Crop
Randolph Stow – The Land's Meaning: New Selected Poems (edited by John Kinsella)
John Tranter ed. – The Best Australian Poems 2012
= Biography
=John Bailey – Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt
Daryl Dellora – Michael Kirby: Law, Love and Life
Gideon Haigh – On Warne
Jenny Hocking – Gough Whitlam: His Time: Volume 2
J. C. Kannemeyer – J. M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing
Malcolm Knox – Bradman's War: How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield
Mungo MacCallum – The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
David McKnight – Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power
Brenda Niall – True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
= Drama
=Ian Meadows – Between Two Waves
Tee O'Neill – Barassi
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
14 April – Bruce Bennett, literary academic (born 1941)
18 June – Don Charlwood, writer (born 1915)
24 June – Ralph Elliott, critic and academic (born 1921)
27 June –
Rosemary Dobson, poet (born 1920)
Peter Steele, poet (born 1939)
6 August – Robert Hughes, writer and critic (born 1938)
20 September – Robert G. Barrett, novelist (born 1942)
14 October – Max Fatchen, writer for children (born 1920)
22 November – Bryce Courtenay, novelist (born 1933 in Johannesburg)
See also
2012 in Australia
2012 in literature
2012 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
List of Australian literary awards
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