Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2021
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021.
Children's and young adult fiction
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Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
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Children and Young Adult
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- ^ "Amnesty by Aravind Adiga". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "After Story by Larissa Behrendt". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "O by Steven Carroll". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Echolalia by Briohny Doyle". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "The Magpie Wing by Max Easton". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Pushing Back by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Love Objects by Emily Maguire". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "The Airways by Jennifer Mills". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "One Hundred Days by Alice Pung". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "The Performance by Max Easton". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "7 ½ by Christos Tsiolkas". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Girls in Boys' Cars by Felicity Castagna". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Rabbit, Soldier, Angel Thief by Katrina Nannestad". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "The Enemy Within by Tim Ayliffe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "The Others by Mark Brandi". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "You Had It Coming by B. M. Carroll". Austlit. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy". Austlit. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "The Deep by Kyle Perry". Austlit. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Stasis Shuffle by Pam Brown". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "How Decent Folk Behave by Maxine Beneba Clarke". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Human Looking by Andy Jackson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Coming of Age in the War on Terror by Randa Abdel-Fattah". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs by Julia Banks". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Monsters: A reckoning by Alison Croggon". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud by Mehreen Faruqi". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession by Ross Garnaut". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "The Most I Could Be by Dale Kent". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next by Scott Ludlam". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples by Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Melbourne Prize". Austlit. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ "Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2021"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "'Eight jobs at once and no sick days': $60,000 prizes a welcome relief for young writer". www.abc.net.au. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize". ArtsHub. 22 April 2021. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ "Pandemic novel wins Australia's richest literary prize". Books+Publishing. 17 March 2021. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "McKay wins $100k Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 2 February 2021. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ^ ""Robbie Arnott's Rain Heron swoops on the Age Book of the Year"". The Age, 3 September 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ Steger, Jason (30 April 2021). "How truth and fiction won Emma Batchelor this year's Vogel Award". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "$60,000 Miles Franklin awarded to a novel 'soaked in sadness' that is ultimately about hope". ABC News. 15 July 2021. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ a b "PMLA 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 December 2021. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2021. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "'Eight jobs at once and no sick days': $60,000 prizes a welcome relief for young writer". www.abc.net.au. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Winners announced for 2021 Queensland Literary Awards". Queensland Government: Ministerial Media Statements. 9 September 2021. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "Pandemic novel wins Australia's richest literary prize". Books+Publishing. 17 March 2021. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 21 August 2021. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "Nicholls wins 2021 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award". Books+Publishing. 25 June 2021. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ "Davitt Awards winners announced". Books+Publishing. 30 August 2021. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ^ "Ned Kelly Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Jeffrey wins 2020 Anne Elder Award for 'Dead Bolt'". Books+Publishing. 15 April 2021. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Radio. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "NSW Premier's History Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ Haigh, Gideon (2 May 2021). "Expat writer Kate Jennings had a voice both fierce and fun". The Australian. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ "Valerie Parv". Austlit. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Newcastle loses a legend: Vera Deacon passes away, aged 94". Newcastle Herald. 18 May 2021. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Timothy Colin Thorne – Death Notice". The Advocate. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ a b Celebrated historians Babette Smith, Stuart Macintyre have died (subscription required)
- ^ "Vale Doug MacLeod". Books+Publishing. 1 December 2021. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ Phillilps, John (28 November 2021). "Obituary: Desmond O'Grady, Australian foreign correspondent who reported on Italy for over half a century". www.italianinsider.it. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ White, Daniella (27 December 2021). "Veteran Australian radio broadcaster Paul B. Kidd dies, aged 76". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2021.