- Source: 2013 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013.
Events
James Ley launches the Sydney Review of Books to provide "an opportunity for Australia's critics to rediscover the art of literary criticism".
The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize is announced.
The shortlist of the Miles Franklin Award contains only female writers for the first time.
Nicole Bourke, writing under the pseudonym "N. A. Sulway", becomes the first Australian writer to win the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for her novel Rupetta.
Aora Children's Literature Research Centre in Sydney closes after 12 years of operation.
The Commonwealth Book Prize was discontinuted after 2013.
Major publications
= Literary fiction
=Debra Adelaide – Letter to George Clooney
Steven Carroll – A World of Other People
J. M. Coetzee – The Childhood of Jesus
Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Andrea Goldsmith – The Memory Trap
Ashley Hay – The Railwayman's Wife
Tom Keneally – Shame and the Captives
Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
Melissa Lucashenko – Mullumbimby
Colleen McCullough – Bittersweet
Fiona McFarlane – The Night Guest
Alex Miller – Coal Creek
Di Morrissey – The Winter Sea
Cory Taylor – My Beautiful Enemy
Christos Tsiolkas – Barracuda
Felicity Volk – Lightning
Tim Winton – Eyrie
Alexis Wright – The Swan Book
Evie Wyld – All The Birds, Singing
= Children's and young adult fiction
=Alyssa Brugman – Alex as Well
J. C. Burke – Pretty Girl
Felicity Castagna – The Incredible Here and Now
Mem Fox – Baby Bedtime
Mem Fox – Yoo-hoo, Ladybird!
Kerry Greenwood – Evan's Gallipoli: A Gripping Story of Unlikely Friendship and an Incredible Journey behind Enemy Lines
Richard Harland – Song of the Slums
Karen Healey – When We Wake
Melissa Keil – Life in Outer Space
Tania McCartney – An Aussie Year: Twelve Months in the Life of Australian Kids
James Phelan – 13
Fiona Wood – Wildlife
= Science fiction and fantasy
=Max Barry – Lexicon
Greg Egan – The Arrows of Time
Jennifer Fallon – Reunion
Traci Harding – Dreaming of Zhou Gong
Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: Safe Art
Fiona McIntosh – The Scrivener's Tale
Juliet Marillier – The Caller
N. A. Sulway – Rupetta
= Crime and mystery
=Honey Brown – Dark Horse
Peter Corris – The Dunbar Case
Garry Disher – Bitter Wash Road
Karen Foxlee – The Midnight Dress
Poppy Gee – Bay of Fires
Katherine Howell – Web of Deceit
Stuart Littlemore —Harry Curry: Rats and Mice
Adrian McKinty – I Hear the Sirens in the Street
Barry Maitland – The Raven's Eye
Matthew Reilly – The Tournament
Michael Robotham – Watching You
Angela Savage – The Dying Beach
David Whish-Wilson – Zero at the Bone
Chris Womersley – Cairo
= Poetry
=Pamela Brown – Home by Dark
Lisa Gorton
The Best Australian Poems 2013
Hotel Hyperion
John Kinsella – The Vision of Error: A Sextet of Activist Poems
Kate Middleton – Ephemeral Waters
Geoff Page
1953
New Selected Poems
Dorothy Porter – The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter
Chris Wallace-Crabbe – New and Selected Poems
= Biography
=Alison Alexander – The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer
Andrew Burell – Twiggy: The High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forest
Gabrielle Carey – Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family
Matthew Condon – Three Crooked Kings
David Day – Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson
Stephen Dando-Collins – Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus
Jesse Fink – The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC
Peter FitzSimons – Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend
David Marr – The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Kristina Olsson – Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
Michael Pembroke – Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy
Margaret Simons – Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man
Helen Trinca – Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St. John
Clare Wright – The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Non-fiction
Paul Barry – Breaking News : Sex, Lies & the Murdoch Succession
Susanna de Vries – Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front
John Safran – Murder in Mississippi: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book
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
23 May – Hazel Hawke, memoirist (born 1929)
16 July – Christopher Koch, novelist (born 1932)
5 September – Elisabeth Wynhausen, Dutch-born journalist and author (born 1946)
11 September – Keith Dunstan, journalist and author (born 1925)
9 October – Mark "Chopper" Read, writer (born 1954)
16 November – Graham Stone, bibliographer (born 1926)
See also
2013 in Australia
2013 in literature
2013 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
List of Australian literary awards
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