2011 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011. == Events == Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011 Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) appoints Robert Adamson to hold the inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry == Major publications == === Literary fiction === Tony Birch – Blood Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing Annah Faulkner – The Beloved Anna Funder – All That I Am Kate Grenville – Sarah Thornhill Gail Jones – Five Bells Jeanine Leane – Purple Threads Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread Alex Miller – Autumn Laing Frank Moorhouse – Cold Light Liane Moriarty – The Hypnotist's Love Story Favel Parrett – Past The Shallows Elliot Perlman – The Street Sweeper Craig Sherborne – The Amateur Science of Love Cory Taylor – Me and Mr Booker Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party Charlotte Wood – Animal People === Children's and Young Adult fiction === Alexandra Adornetto – Hades Em Bailey – Shift J. C. Burke – Pig Boy Isobelle Carmody – The Sending Ursula Dubosarsky – The Golden Day Scott Gardner – The Dead I Know Andy Griffiths - The 13-Storey Treehouse Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails Andrew McGahan – The Coming of the Whirlpool Melina Marchetta – Froi of the Exiles Vikki Wakefield – All I Ever Wanted Scott Westerfeld – Goliath === Science fiction and fantasy === Max Barry – Machine Man Trudi Canavan – The Rogue Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket Will Elliott – Shadow Kim Falconer – Road to the Soul Pamela Freeman – Ember and Ash Richard Harland – Liberator Glenda Larke – Stormlord's Exile Kim Westwood – The Courier's New Bicycle === Crime and mystery === Alan Carter – Prime Cut Peter Corris – Follow the Money Garry Disher – Whispering Death Sulari Gentill – A Decline in Prophets Kerry Greenwood – Cooking the Books Malcolm Knox – The Life Stuart Littlemore – Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice Barry Maitland – Chelsea Mansions Kel Robertson – Rip Off Michael Robotham – The Wreckage === Poetry === Ali Alizadeh – Ashes in the Air Joanne Burns – Amphora Luke Davies – Interferon Psalms Barry Hill – Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings John Kinsella – Armour Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited) Jaya Savige – Surface to Air === Biography === Julian Assange – Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography A. J. Brown – Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles Eileen Chanin – Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907 Raimond Gaita – After Romulus Mark McKenna – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark Susan Mitchell – Tony Abbott: A Man's Man Christine Nixon – Fair Cop Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story Alice Pung – Her Father's Daughter David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History Sarah Watt & William McInnes – Worse Things Happen at Sea == 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 == 1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951) 15 June – Anne Godfrey-Smith, poet and theatre producer/director (born 1921) 20 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915) 2 September – Bernard Smith, art historian (born 1916) 27 September – Sara Douglass, author (born 1957) 4 October – Di Gribble, editor and publisher (born 1942) 8 December – Zelman Cowen, jurist (born 1919) Unknown date May – Robert J. Merritt, playwright (born 1945) == See also == 2011 in Australia 2011 in literature 2011 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature List of Australian literary awards == References ==