2014 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2014.

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Emily Bitto – The Strays
• Peter Carey – Amnesia
• Elizabeth Harrower – In Certain Circles
• Sonya Hartnett – Golden Boys
• Janette Turner Hospital – The Claimant
• Wendy James – The Lost Girls
• Sofie Laguna – The Eye of the Sheep
• Joan London – The Golden Age
• Suzanne McCourt – The Lost Child
• Gerald Murnane – A Million Windows
• Omar Musa – Here Come the Dogs
• Favel Parrett – When the Night Comes
• Christine Piper – After Darkness
• Craig Sherborne – Tree Palace
• Inga Simpson – Nest
• Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect
• Rohan Wilson – To Name Those Lost

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Karen Foxlee – Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
• Morris Gleitzman – Loyal Creatures
• Kerry Greenwood – Gallipoli (illustrated by Annie White)
• Andy Griffiths – The 52-Storey Treehouse
• Darren Groth – Are You Seeing Me?
• Rebecca James – Cooper Batholomew is Dead
• Rebecca Lim – The Astrologer's Daughter
• Doug MacLeod – Tigers on the Beach
• John Marsden – South of Darkness
• Alice Pung – Laurinda
• Diana Sweeney – The Minnow
• Claire Zorn – The Protected

Crime

• Honey Brown – Through the Cracks
• Katherine Howell – Deserving Death
• Barry Maitland – Crucifixion Creek
• P. M. Newton – Beams Falling
• Malla Nunn – Present Darkness
• Michael Rowbotham – Life or Death

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Trudi Canavan – Thief's Magic
• Kate Forsyth – Wolves of Witchwood
• Patrick Holland – Navigato
• Juliet Marillier – The Cracks in the Kingdom
• Garth Nix – Clariel
• Matthew Reilly – The Great Zoo of China
• John A. Scott – N

Drama

• Michael Gow – Once in Royal David's City
• Daniel Keene – The Long Way Home

Poetry

• Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems
• Lesbia Harford – Collected Poems : Lesbia Harford (edited by Oliver Dennis)
• Gwen Harwood – The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
• John Kinsella – Sack
• Geoffrey Lehmann – Poems 1957–2013
• Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
• David Malouf – Earth Hour
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe – My Feet are Hungry

Biographies

• Bob Brown – Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action
• Phil Butterss – An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C. J. Dennis
• Matthew Condon – Jacks and Jokers
• Robert Dessaix – What Days Are For
• Rafael Epstein – Prisoner X
• Julia Gillard – My Story
• Dino Hodge – Don Dunstan : Intimacy and Liberty : A Political Biography
• John Howard – The Menzies Era : The Years that Shaped Modern Australia
• Elizabeth Morrison – David Syme : Man of the Age
• Mandy Sayer – The Poet's Wife
• David Walsh – A Bone of Fact

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

• 14 February – Marshall Browne, novelist (born 1935)
• 17 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (born 1957)
• 8 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (born 1938)

See also

• Literature
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of Australian literary awards

References

Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.