2010 in Australian literature

none an overview of world literature 2010 in literature October 2014 October 2014 This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2010. Events 26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours List.https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2010/Media%20Notes%20AM%20%28A-L%29%20%28final%29%281%29.pdf 2010 Australia Day Honours List 4 October 2014 13 February 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140213095814/http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2010/Media%20Notes%20AM%20(A-L)%20(final)(1).pdf dead February – The "Australian Book Review" magazine conducted a poll of its readers and announces that Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is Australia's favourite novel.Favourite Australian Novel Poll 22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel TruthTemple wins Miles Franklin award, ABC News, 22 June 2010. becoming the first crime novel to do so. Major publications Literary fiction Jon Bauer – Rocks in the Belly Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4852234 18 May 2025 Carmel Bird – Child of the Twilight Child of the Twilight by Carmel Bird National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4701058 18 May 2025 Ashley Hay – The Body in the Clouds The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4935062 18 May 2025 Anita Heiss – Manhattan Dreaming Manhattan Dreaming by Anita Heiss National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4727764 18 May 2025 Toni Jordan – Fall Girl Fall Girl by Toni Jordan National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4931466 18 May 2025 Amanda Lohrey – Reading Madame Bovary (short story collection) Roger McDonald – When Colts Ran Fiona Kelly McGregor – Indelible Ink Monica McInerney – At Home with the Templetons At Home with the Templetons by Monica McInerney National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7286942 18 May 2025 Kate Morton – The Distant Hours D.B.C. Pierre – Lights Out in Wonderland Lights Out in Wonderland by D.B.C. Pierre National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4975934 18 May 2025 Jessica Rudd – Campaign Ruby Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8051737 18 May 2025 Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance Chris Womersley – Bereft Children's and Young Adult fiction Alexandra Adornetto – Halo Halo by Alexandra Adornetto National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7577030 17 January 2025 John Flanagan – The Emperor of Nihon-Ja Mem Fox – Let's Count Goats! Sonya Hartnett – The Midnight Zoo Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4804742 17 January 2025 Alison Lester – Noni the Pony Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher by Doug MacLeod National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7286904 17 January 2025 Melina Marchetta – The Piper's Son The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7286872 17 January 2025 Garth Nix – Lord Sunday Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay Science Fiction and Fantasy John Birmingham – After America Trudi Canavan – The Ambassador's Mission The Ambassador's Mission by Trudi Canavan ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1107971 22 May 2024 Sara Creasy – Song of Scarabaeus Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate The Infinity Gate by Sara Douglass ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?930199 22 May 2024 Greg Egan – Zendegi Fiona McIntosh – King's Wrath King's Wrath by Fiona McIntosh ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1156029 22 May 2024 Sean McMullen – "Eight Miles" Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters Seer of Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1180678 22 May 2024 Shaun Micallef – Preincarnate Scott Westerfeld – Behemoth Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1154538 22 May 2024 Sean Williams The Force Unleashed II Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance Crime and Mystery Lenny Bartulin – The Black Russian The Black Russian by Lenny Bartulin National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8038288 18 March 2025 John Birmingham – After America Honey Brown – The Good Daughter Peter Corris – Torn Apart Garry Disher – Wyatt Kathryn Fox – Death Mask Death Mask by Kathryn Fox National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4854508 18 March 2025 Kerry Greenwood – Dead Man's Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4969814 18 March 2025 Katherine Howell – Cold Justice Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5299023 18 March 2025 Colleen McCullough – Naked Cruelty Naked Cruelty by Colleen McCullough National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7575990 18 March 2025 Geoff McGeachin – The Diggers Rest Hotel Tara Moss – The Blood Countess The Blood Countess by Tara Moss National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4963271 18 March 2025 P. M. Newton – The Old School The Old School by P. M. Newton National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7286897 18 March 2025 Malla Nunn – Let the Dead Lie Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4734007 18 March 2025 Leigh Redhead – Thrill City Thrill City by Leigh Redhead National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4833378 18 March 2025 Michael Robotham – Bleed for Me Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4807065 18 March 2025 Angela Savage – The Half-Child The Half-Child by Angela Savage National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4810276 18 March 2025 David Whish-Wilson – Line of Sight Line of Sight by David Whish-Wilson National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7286935 18 March 2025 Poetry Brook Emery ed. (with Victoria Haritos) Earthly Matters: Biology and Geology Poems"Earthly matters : biology and geology poems / edited by Brook Emery and Victoria Haritos ; project editor Carol Jenkins", National Library of Australia Law and Impulse: Maths and Chemistry Poems"Law and impulse : maths and chemistry poems / edited by Brook Emery and Victoria Haritos ; project editor Carol Jenkins", National Library of Australia Brook Emery ed. (with John L Sheppard and Victoria Haritos) – Holding Patterns: Physics and Engineering Poems"Holding patterns : physics and engineering poems / edited by Brook Emery and Victoria Haritos ; project editor Carol Jenkins", National Library of Australia Christopher Kelen – The Whole Forest Dancing: Poems on Four Legs in the Morning The Whole Forest Dancing: Poems on Four Legs in the Morning by Christopher Kelen National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4832767 9 May 2025 Les Murray – Taller When Prone Dorothy Porter – Love Poems Love Poems by Dorothy Porter National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4926048 9 May 2025 Peter Porter – The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems by Peter Porter National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6352576 9 May 2025 Thomas Shapcott – Parts of Us Parts of Us by Thomas Shapcott National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4706006 9 May 2025 John Tranter – Starlight: 150 Poems Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4811192 9 May 2025 Mark Tredinnick – Fire Diary Fire Diary by Mark Tredinnick National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5300245 9 May 2025 Biography Blanche d'Alpuget – Hawke: The Prime Minister Hawke: The Prime Minister by Blanche d'Alpuget National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4808763 5 May 2025 Jeff Apter – Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers by Jeff Apter National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4764900 5 May 2025 Jim Davidson – A Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock A Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock by Jim Davidson National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4702295 5 May 2025 Sheila Fitzpatrick – My Father's Daughter Malcolm Fraser & Margaret Simons – Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs by Malcolm Fraser & Margaret Simons National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4511792 5 May 2025 Rob Mundle – Bligh: Master Mariner Bligh: Master Mariner by Rob Mundle National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4900051 5 May 2025 Anne Pender – One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries by Anne Pender National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4762985 5 May 2025 Mark Logue & Peter Conradi – The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue & Peter Conradi National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5036510 5 May 2025 Awards and honours Lifetime achievement Award Author Christopher Brennan AwardAustlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v539?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=0&count=3 10 September 2023 Peter Steele Patrick White Awardhttp://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/literary-postman-delivers-again-winning-mentors-bequest-20101112-17r7f.html Literary postman delivers again, winning mentor's bequest SMH.com.au 2010-11-13 2023-09-10 David Foster Literary Award Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year"Lovesong" The Age, 28 August 2010 https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/lovesong-20100827-13vng.html 3 September 2025 Alex Miller Lovesong Allen & Unwin ALS Gold Medal ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners Association for the Study of Australian Literature https://www.asal.org.au/awards/als-gold-medal/ 13 January 2024 David Malouf Ransom Knopf Australia Colin Roderick Award Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners James Cook University https://www.jcu.edu.au/foundation-for-australian-literary-studies/roderick-award/previous-winners2 2 February 2024 Michael Cathcart The Water Dreamers Text Publishing Indie Book Awards Book of the Year"Indie Book Awards - Winners 2012 & prior" Australian Independent Booksellers https://www.indiebookawards.com.au/prior-2012-winners 24 May 2024 Not awarded Nita Kibble Literary Award 2009-06-09 Kibble Literary Award https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb/kibble-literary-award 9 March 2024 Australian National University en-AU Shirley Walker The Ghost at the Wedding Viking Fiction International Award Region Category Author Title Publisher Commonwealth Writers' Prizehttps://web.archive.org/web/20100418072814/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/news/news/detail.cfm?id=616 18 April 2010 http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/news/news/detail.cfm?id=616 Literary icons of tomorrow revealed Commonwealth Foundation 12 April 2010 18 January 2024 SE Asia and South Pacific Best First Book Glenda Guest Siddon Rock Vintage Australia National Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for LiteratureState Library of South Australia https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/past-literary-award-winners Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners 18 April 2024 9 March 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260309180911/https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/past-literary-award-winners dead David Malouf Ransom Random House The Age Book of the Year Award Alex Miller Lovesong Allen & Unwin The Australian/Vogel Literary Award"Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2009-2012" Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v385?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=9&count=3 19 February 2024 Not awarded (change of award year date) Barbara Jefferis Award"Barbara Jefferis Award" Australian Society of Authors https://www.asauthors.org.au/award/barbara-jefferis-award/ 20 January 2024Kristina Olsson The China Garden University of Queensland Press Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction Not awarded Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction Not awarded Miles Franklin Award2010-06-23 Crime writer win Miles Franklin award https://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2934394.htm?site=local 2022-08-09 www.abc.net.au en-AU Peter Temple Truth Text Publishing Prime Minister's Literary Awards"Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Shortlist and winners: 2021-2008" Creative Australia https://creative.gov.au/advocacy-and-research/events/prime-ministers-literary-awards/ 11 January 2024 Eva Hornung Dog Boy Text Publishing New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards"Herald writer wins top prize for Hamas book" Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2010 https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/herald-writer-wins-top-prize-for-hamas-book-20100517-v9h0.html 16 January 2025 J.M. Coetzee Summertime Harvill Secker Queensland Premier's Literary Awards "Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Previous Winners" Queensland Government http://www.qld.gov.au/about/events-awards-honours/awards/literary-awards/past-winners/ 13 May 2025 17 July 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120717073830/http://www.qld.gov.au/about/events-awards-honours/awards/literary-awards/past-winners/ dead J.M. Coetzee Summertime Harvill Secker South Australian Premier's Awards David Malouf Ransom Knopf Australia Victorian Premier's Literary Award"Temple dreams of trifecta" The Age, 29 September 2010 https://www.proquest.com/docview/755123483 6 August 2025 755123483 Peter Temple Truth Text Publishing Western Australian Premier's Book Awards"Australian Literary Awards: Western Australian Premier's" University Libraries, University of Washington https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341672&p=2299464 23 May 2025 Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador Children and Young Adult National Award Category Author Title PublisherChildren's Book of the Year Award "CBCA – Winners 2010" CBCA https://www.cbca.org.au/winners-2010 17 January 2025 15 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240415024337/https://www.cbca.org.au/winners-2010 dead Older Readers David Metzenthen Jarvis 24 Penguin Group Younger Readers Odo Hirsch Darius Bell and the Glitter Pond Allen & Unwin Picture BookGregory Rogers The Hero of Little Street Allen & Unwin Early Childhood Lisa Shanahan, illus. Emma Quay Bear & Chook By the Sea Lothian Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Children's & YA Not Awarded New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Children's Allan Baillie Krakatoa Lighthouse Penguin Books Australia Young People's Pamela Rushby When the Hipchicks Went to War HachetteQueensland Premier's Literary Awards Children's Sally Murphy Toppling Walker Books Young Adult Richard Yaxley Drink the Air Richard Yaxley South Australian Premier's Awards Children's Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia Allen and Unwin Victorian Premier's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction Kirsty Eagar Raw Blue Penguin GroupWestern Australian Premier's Book Awards Children's Sally Murphy Toppling Walker BooksWriting for Young Adults Scott Gardner Happy as Larry Allen and Unwin James Roy Anonymity Jones Woolshed Press Crime and Mystery National Award Category Author Title PublisherDavitt Award"LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2010" LibraryThing https://www.librarything.com/award/2525.0.0.2010/Davitt-Award-2010 24 January 2024 Novel Marianne Delacourt Sharp Shooter Arena Young adult novel Justine Larbalestier Liar Allen & Unwin True crime Ellen Connolly and Candace Sutton Ladykiller Allen & Unwin Readers' choice Kerry Greenwood Forbidden Fruit Allen & UnwinNed Kelly AwardSeptember 8, 2010 Awards: Australia's Ned Kelly Prize https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1275 24 January 2024 Shelf Awareness December 25, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231225034435/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1275 live Novel Garry Disher Wyatt Text Publishing First novel Mark Dapin King of the Cross Pan Macmillan True crime Kathy Marks Pitcairn: Paradise Lost Fourth Estate Lifetime achievement Peter Doyle Science fiction Award Category Author Title PublisherAurealis Award SF Novel Marianne de Pierres Transformation Space Orbit Books SF Short Story K.J. Bishop "The House of a Mouse" Subterrannean Online Fantasy Novel Tansy Rayner Roberts Power and Majesty HarperVoyagerFantasy Short Story Thoraiya Dyer "Yowie" Twelfth Planet Press (Sprawl) L.L. Hannett and Angela Slatter "The February Dragon" Ticonderoga Publications (Scary Kisses) Horror Novel Kirstyn McDermott Madigan Mine Pan Macmillan Horror Short Story Richard Harland "The Fear" Brimstone Press (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears)Australian Shadows Award Long Fiction Bob Franklin Under Stones Affirm Press Edited Publication Angela Challis & Marty Young Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears Brimstone Press Short Fiction Kirstyn McDermott "She Said" Scenes from the Second Storey, Morrigan BooksDitmar Award Novel Kaaron Warren Slights Angry Robot Books Novella/Novelette Paul Haines "Wives" X6 (Coeur de Lion) Short Story Cat Sparks "Seventeen" Masques (CSFG) Collected Work Geoffrey Maloney ed. Slice of Life, Paul Haines The Mayne Press Poetry Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Bronwyn Lea The Other Way Out Giramondo Publishing The Age Book of the Year Jennifer Maiden Pirate Rain Giramondo Publishing Anne Elder Award Austlit — Anne Elder Award (2008-2010) Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v148?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=12&count=3 28 February 2024 Rosanna Licari An Absence of Saints University of Queensland PressGrace Leven Prize for Poetry Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry prize (2008-2012) Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v186 28 February 2024 David Musgrave Phantom Limb John Leonard Press LK Holt Patience, Mutiny John Leonard Press Petra White The Simplified World John Leonard Press Mary Gilmore PrizeMary Gilmore Award Association for the Study of Australian Literature https://www.asal.org.au/awards/mary-gilmore-award/ 29 February 2024 Joanna Preston The Summer King Otago University Press New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Jordie Albiston the sonnet according to 'm' John Leonard Press Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Peter Boyle Apocrypha Vagabond Press Victorian Premier's Literary Award Anna Kerdijk Nicholson Possession Five Islands Press Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Mark Tredinnick Fire Diary Puncher and Wattmann Drama Award Category Author Title PublisherNew South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Script Jane Campion Bright Star BBC Films; Screen Australia; UK Film Council; New South Wales Film and Television Office Aviva Ziegler Fairweather Man Fury ProductionsPatrick White Playwrights' Award"Patrick White Playwrights' Award – Past Winners" Sydney Theatre Company https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/about/information-for-artists/patrick-white-playwrights-award-and-fellowship/past-winners 25 December 2025 Award Melissa Bubnic Beached Currency Press Fellowship Raimondo Cortese Non-Fiction Award Category Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Non-Fiction Jill Roe Stella Miles Franklin Fourth Estate/HarperCollins The Age Book of the Year Non-fiction Kate Howarth Ten Hail Marys Penguin Books Children's Book of the Year Award Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Peter Macinnis Australian Backyard Explorer National Library of Australia Davitt Award True crime Ellen Connolly and Candace Sutton Lady Killer Allen & Unwin National Biography Award"National Biography Award – Past Winners" State Library of NSW https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/national-biography-award?page=2 1 August 2024 Biography Brian Matthews Manning Clark: A Life Allen & Unwin Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Non-Fiction Not awarded Prime Minister's Literary Awards Non-fiction Grace Karskens The Colony: A History of Early Sydney Allen & Unwin New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction Paul McGeough Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit ... and the rise of Hamas Allen & UnwinNew South Wales Premier's History Awards Australian History Bain Attwood Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History Melbourne University Publishing Community and Regional History Pauline Curby Randwick Randwick Municipal Council General History Lisa Ford Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 Harvard University Press Young People's Jackie French The Night They Stormed Eureka HarperCollinsQueensland Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction Mark Tredinnick The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir UQP History Ian Hoskins Sydney Harbour: A history, NewSouth Books Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-fiction Brenda Walker Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life Penguin BooksWestern Australian Premier's Book Awards Non-fiction Jim Davidson The Historian: W K Hancock University of New South Wales Press Western Australian history Susanna Iuliano Vite Italiane, Italian Lives in Western Australia University of Western Australia Press Deaths 15 March — Patricia Wrightson, author (born 1921)Patricia Wrightson (1921-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A26709 2023-09-23 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 23 April — Peter Porter, author (born 1929)Peter Porter (1929-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A15735 2023-10-18 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 29 May — Randolph Stow, author (died in England)(born 1935)Randolph Stow (1935-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A6363 2024-02-16 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 9 July — Jessica Anderson, author (born 1916)Jessica Anderson (1916-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A33375 2023-09-16 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 19 July — Jon Cleary, author (born 1917)Jon Cleary (1917-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A27610 2023-09-16 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 6 September — John McKellar, playwright (born 1930) John McKellar (1930-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A95607 30 July 2025 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 8 September — Donald Horne, author (born 1921)Donald Horne (1921-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A34030 2023-09-23 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 6 October — David Rowbotham, author (born 1924)Donald Rowbotham (1924-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A35832 2023-09-23 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 14 November — Bobbi Sykes, poet and author (born 1943)Roberta Sykes (1943-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A13303 2024-02-19 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland 14 December — Ruth Park, author (born 1917)Ruth Park (1917-2010) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16879 2024-05-21 AustLit: Discover Australian Stories The University of Queensland See also 2010 in Australia 2010 in literature 2010 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature List of Australian literary awards References Literature Category:Australian literature by year Category:21st-century Australian literature Category:2010 in literature