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. 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 Carmel Bird – Child of the Twilight Ashley Hay – The Body in the Clouds Anita Heiss – Manhattan Dreaming Toni Jordan – Fall Girl 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 Kate Morton – The Distant Hours D.B.C. Pierre – Lights Out in Wonderland Jessica Rudd – Campaign Ruby Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance Chris Womersley – Bereft
Children's and Young Adult fiction Alexandra Adornetto – Halo John Flanagan – The Emperor of Nihon-Ja Mem Fox – Let's Count Goats! Sonya Hartnett – The Midnight Zoo Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice Alison Lester – Noni the Pony Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher Melina Marchetta – The Piper's Son Garth Nix – Lord Sunday Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay
Science Fiction and Fantasy John Birmingham – After America Trudi Canavan – The Ambassador's Mission Sara Creasy – Song of Scarabaeus Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate Greg Egan – Zendegi Fiona McIntosh – King's Wrath Sean McMullen – "Eight Miles" Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters Shaun Micallef – Preincarnate Scott Westerfeld – Behemoth Sean Williams The Force Unleashed II Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
Crime and Mystery
Lenny Bartulin – The Black Russian John Birmingham – After America Honey Brown – The Good Daughter Peter Corris – Torn Apart Garry Disher – Wyatt Kathryn Fox – Death Mask Kerry Greenwood – Dead Man's Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery Katherine Howell – Cold Justice Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road Colleen McCullough – Naked Cruelty Geoff McGeachin – The Diggers Rest Hotel Tara Moss – The Blood Countess P. M. Newton – The Old School Malla Nunn – Let the Dead Lie Leigh Redhead – Thrill City Michael Robotham – Bleed for Me Angela Savage – The Half-Child David Whish-Wilson – Line of Sight
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 Les Murray – Taller When Prone Dorothy Porter – Love Poems Peter Porter – The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems Thomas Shapcott – Parts of Us John Tranter – Starlight: 150 Poems Mark Tredinnick – Fire Diary
Biography Blanche d'Alpuget – Hawke: The Prime Minister Jeff Apter – Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers Jim Davidson – A Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock Sheila Fitzpatrick – My Father's Daughter Malcolm Fraser & Margaret Simons – Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs Rob Mundle – Bligh: Master Mariner Anne Pender – One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries Mark Logue & Peter Conradi – The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement Award Author Christopher Brennan Award Peter Steele Patrick White Award David Foster
Literary Award Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year Alex Miller Lovesong Allen & Unwin ALS Gold Medal David Malouf Ransom Knopf Australia Colin Roderick Award Michael Cathcart The Water Dreamers Text Publishing Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Not awarded Nita Kibble Literary Award Shirley Walker The Ghost at the Wedding Viking
Fiction
International Award Region Category Author Title Publisher Commonwealth Writers' Prize SE Asia and South Pacific Best First Book Glenda Guest Siddon Rock Vintage Australia
National Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature David Malouf Ransom Random House The Age Book of the Year Award Alex Miller Lovesong Allen & Unwin The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Not awarded (change of award year date) Barbara Jefferis AwardKristina 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 Award Peter Temple Truth Text Publishing Prime Minister's Literary Awards Eva Hornung Dog Boy Text Publishing New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards J.M. Coetzee Summertime Harvill Secker Queensland Premier's Literary Awards J.M. Coetzee Summertime Harvill Secker South Australian Premier's Awards David Malouf Ransom Knopf Australia Victorian Premier's Literary Award Peter Temple Truth Text Publishing Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Picador
Children and Young Adult
National Award Category Author Title PublisherChildren's Book of the Year Award 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 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 Award 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 Rosanna Licari An Absence of Saints University of Queensland PressGrace Leven Prize for Poetry David Musgrave Phantom Limb John Leonard Press LK Holt Patience, Mutiny John Leonard Press Petra White The Simplified World John Leonard Press Mary Gilmore Prize 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 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 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) 23 April — Peter Porter, author (born 1929) 29 May — Randolph Stow, author (died in England)(born 1935) 9 July — Jessica Anderson, author (born 1916) 19 July — Jon Cleary, author (born 1917) 6 September — John McKellar, playwright (born 1930) 8 September — Donald Horne, author (born 1921)