This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Patrick White Award[55] | Antigone Kefala |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[56] | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Giramondo Publishing |
Colin Roderick Award[57] | Emily Bitto | Wild Abandon | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[58] | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press |
Stella Prize[59] | Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Veronica Gorrie | Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience | Scribe |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Penguin |
The Age Book of the Year[62] | Miles Allinson | In Moonland | Scribe |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[63] | Nell Pierce | A Place Near Eden | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award[64] | S. L. Lim | Revenge: Murder in Three Parts | Transit Lounge Publishing |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[65] | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[65] | Lyn Yeowart | The Silent Listener | Viking |
Miles Franklin Award[66] | Jennifer Down | Bodies of Light | Text |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[67] | Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven | Text |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | UQP |
Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Hachette Australia |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Melisa Manning | Smokehouse | UQP |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award[70] | Older Readers | Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | Allen & Unwin |
Younger Readers | Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | Puffin | |
Picture Book | Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft | Iceberg | Allen & Unwin | |
Early Childhood | Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville | Jetty Jumping | Hardie Grant | |
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Safdar Ahmed | Still Alive, Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Twelve Panels Press | |
Lifetime Achievement | Margaret Wild[71] | |||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[65] | Children's | Katrina Nannestad | Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief | ABC Books |
Young Adult | Danielle Binks | The Monster of Her Age | Lothian | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Children's | Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | UQP |
Young People's | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text | |
Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Children's | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Magabala Books |
Young Adult | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Young Adult Fiction | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys' Cars | Pan |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[72] | Novel | Charlotte McConaghy | Once There Were Wolves | Hamish Hamilton |
Young adult novel | Leanne Hall | The Gaps | Text Publishing | |
Children's novel | Nicki Greenberg | The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel | Affirm Press | |
Non-fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc | |
Debut novel | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
Readers' choice | Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | Allen & Unwin | |
Ned Kelly Award[73] | Novel | Candice Fox | The Chase | Bantam Books |
First novel | Josh Kemp | Banjawarn | UWA Publishing | |
True crime | Debi Marshall | Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders | Vintage Books |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Jodie Albiston | Fifteeners | Puncher & Wattmann |
Anne Elder Award[74] | Audrey Molloy | The Important Things | Gallery Press |
Mary Gilmore Award[75] | Jelena Dinic | In the Room with the She Wolf | Wakefield Press |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[67] | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Giramondo Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | Vagabond Press |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[76] | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Hunter |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | University of Queensland Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Script | Shaun Grant | NITRAM | |
Play | Kirsty Marillier | Orange Thrower | Currency Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Dylan Van Den Berg | Milk |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Non-Fiction | Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Fourth Estate |
The Age Book of the Year[62] | Non-Fiction | Bennadette Brennan | Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[65] | Non-Fiction | Trent Dalton | Love Stories | Fourth Estate |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Amber Creswell Bell | Still Life | Thames and Hudson | |
National Biography Award[77][78] | Biography | Bernadette Brennan | Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears | Allen & Unwin |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[68] | Non-Fiction | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[79] | Australian History | Alexis Bergantz | French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions | NewSouth Publishing |
Community and Regional History | Kate Holden | The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek | Black Inc. | |
General History | Mina Roces | The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change | Cornell University Press | |
Queensland Literary Awards[69] | Non-Fiction | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Ultimo Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Non-Fiction | Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | Pan |
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