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1993 in Australian literature

Events[edit]

• Alex Miller (writer) won the Miles Franklin Award for The Ancestor Game

Major publications[edit]

Novels[edit]

• Bryce Courtenay — April Fool's Day
• Liam Davison – Soundings^[1]
• Fotini Epanomitis – The Mule's Foal^[2]
• Rodney Hall — The Grisly Wife
• Dorothy Hewett — The Toucher^[3]
• Elizabeth Jolley — The Georges' Wife
• David Malouf — Remembering Babylon
• Roger McDonald — Water Man
• Frank Moorhouse — Grand Days^[4]
• Madeleine St John — The Women in Black
• Morris West — The Lovers

Crime and mystery[edit]

• Jon Cleary – Bleak Spring
• Peter Corris
  • Browning Battles On^[5]
  • Cross Off^[6]
  • Matrimonial Causes^[7]
• Garry Disher – Deathdeal^[8]
• Jennifer Rowe – Stranglehold^[9]
• Kerry Greenwood – The Green Mill Murder^[10]

Science fiction and fantasy[edit]

• Terry Dowling – Twilight Beach^[11]
• Terry Dowling and Van Ikin – Mortal Fire: Best Australian Science Fiction (editors)^[12]
• Rosaleen Love – Evolution Annie: And Other Stories^[13]
• George Turner – The Destiny Makers^[14]

Children's and young adult fiction[edit]

• Isobelle Carmody — The Gathering
• Carmel Charles — Winin: Why the Emu Cannot Fly^[15]
• Morris Gleitzman — Sticky Beak
• John Marsden — Tomorrow, When the War Began
• James Moloney – Dougy
• Dorothy Porter — The Witch Number^[16]
• Emily Rodda – Roan of Rin
• Tim Winton – Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster

Poetry[edit]

• Robert Gray — Certain Things^[17]
• Barry Hill — Ghosting William Buckley^[18]
• Philip Hodgins — The End of the Season^[19]
• Jill Jones — Flagging Down Time^[20]
• Jennifer Maiden — Acoustic Shadow^[21]
• Jan Owen — Blackberry Season^[22]
• John Tranter — At the Florida^[23]

Drama[edit]

• Louis Nowra — Radiance

Non-fiction[edit]

• Verity Burgmann — Power and Protest: Movements for Change in Australian Society^[24]
• Hazel Rowley — Christina Stead: A Biography^[25]
• Peter Singer — How Are We to Live?

Awards and honours[edit]

Lifetime achievement[edit]

Literary[edit]

Fiction[edit]

International[edit]

National[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Deaths[edit]

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabeticallybysurname) of deaths in 1993 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 9 January — Paul Hasluck, statesman, poet, biographer and writer on politics (born 1905)^[40]
• 19 January — Nancy Keesing, poet, writer, editor and promoter of Australian literature (born 1923)^[41]
• 4 February — Leonard Frank Meares, writer of western fiction (born 1921)^[42]
• 1 March — Ronald McCuaig, poet, journalist, literary critic, humourist and children's author (born 1908)^[43]
• 23 March — Robert Harris, poet (born 1951) ^[44]
• 1 April — Kevin Gilbert, author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker (born 1933)^[45]
• 12 April — Alexander Turner, poet, playwright, and theatre and radio producer (born 1907)^[46]
• 22 April — Margaret Diesendorf, linguist, poet, editor, translator and educationist (born 1912 Vienna, Austria)^[47]
• 18 June — Alexandra Hasluck, historian (born 1908)^[48]
• 1 July – Eric Irvin, historian and poet (born 1908)^[49]
• 25 August — Florence James, author and literary agent (born 1902)^[50]
• 16 September — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet, political activist, artist and educator (born 1920)^[51]

See also[edit]

• 1993 in Australia
• 1993 in literature
• 1993 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References[edit]