This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Patrick White Award | Not yet awarded |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal | Not yet awarded | ||
Colin Roderick Award | Not yet awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[11] | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Black Inc |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Ali Cobby Eckermann | She Is the Earth | Magabala Books |
Stella Prize[13] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year[15] | Tony Birch | Women & Children | University of Queensland Press |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[16] | Kristina Ross | First Year | Allen and Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award | Not yet awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[11] | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | University of Queensland Press |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[11] | Jane Harrison | The Visitors | Fourth Estate |
Miles Franklin Award | Not yet awarded | ||
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Not yet awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[17] | Angela O'Keeffe | The Sitter | University of Queensland Press |
Queensland Literary Awards | Not yet awarded | ||
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | University of Queensland Press |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Not yet awarded | ||
Younger Readers | Not yet awarded | |||
Picture Book | Not yet awarded | |||
Early Childhood | Not yet awarded | |||
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books | Not yet awarded | |||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[11] | Children's | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet | Allen & Unwin |
Young Adult | Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes | Welcome to Sex | Hardie Grant | |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Children's | Not yet awarded | ||
Young Adult | Not yet awarded | |||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[18] | Children's | Levi Pinfold | Paradise Sands: A story of enchantment | Walker Books |
Young People's | Helena Fox | The Quiet and the Loud | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
Queensland Literary Awards | Children's | Not yet awarded | ||
Young Adult | Not yet awarded | |||
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Young Adult Fiction | Lili Wilkinson | A Hunger of Thorns | Allen & Unwin |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[19] | Children's | Dianne Wolfer | Scout and the Rescue Dogs | Walker Books |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award | Novel | Not yet awarded | ||
Young adult novel | Not yet awarded | |||
Children's novel | Not yet awarded | |||
Non-fiction | Not yet awarded | |||
Debut | Not yet awarded | |||
Readers' choice | Not yet awarded | |||
Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Not yet awarded | ||
First novel | Not yet awarded | |||
True crime | Not yet awarded |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year[15] | Non-Fiction | Ross McMullin | Life So Full of Promise | Scribe |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[11] | Non-Fiction | David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | Black Inc |
Illustrated Non-Fiction | Wendy Cooper | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper | National Library of Australia | |
National Biography Award | Biography | Not yet awarded | ||
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Not yet awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[18] | Non-Fiction | Christine Kenneally | Ghosts of the Orphanage | Hachette Australia |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Not yet awarded | ||
Community and Regional History | Not yet awarded | |||
General History | Not yet awarded | |||
Queensland Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Not yet awarded | ||
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Non-Fiction | Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | University of Queensland Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Anne Elder Award[20] | Sara M. Saleh | The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat | University of Queensland Press |
Mary Gilmore Award | Not yet awarded | ||
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Not yet awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[18] | Tais Rose Wae | Riverbed Sky Songs | Vagabond Press |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Not yet awarded | ||
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Giramondo Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[18] | Script | Anna Barnes | Safe Home, Episode 1 | Kindling Pictures |
Play | Nicholas Brown | Sex Magick | Griffin Theatre Company & Currency Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[14] | S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack | The Jungle and the Sea | Belvoir St Theatre & Currency Press |