1992 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1992.
Events[edit]
- Tim Winton won the Miles Franklin Award for Cloudstreet
Major publications[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Thea Astley – Vanishing Points
- Brian Castro – After China
- Helen Garner – Cosmo Cosmolino
- Peter Goldsworthy – Honk If You Are Jesus[1]
- Marion Halligan – Lovers' Knots
- Janette Turner Hospital – The Last Magician[2]
- Roger McDonald – Shearers' Motel[3]
- Andrew McGahan – Praise
- Alex Miller – The Ancestor Game
Children's and young adult fiction[edit]
- Pamela Allen – Belinda
- Brian Caswell – A Cage of Butterflies
- Garry Disher – The Bamboo Flute
- Anna Fienberg – Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life[4]
- Joanne Horniman – Sand Monkeys
- Victor Kelleher – Del-Del
- Melina Marchetta – Looking for Alibrandi
Crime and mystery[edit]
- Peter Corris
- Marele Day – The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado[9]
- Garry Disher – Paydirt[10]
- Kerry Greenwood – Death at Victoria Dock[11]
- Gabrielle Lord – Whipping Boy[12]
- Jan McKemmish – Only Lawyers Dancing[13]
Science fiction and fantasy[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- Beatriz Copello – Women, Souls And Shadows[15]
- Robert Harris – Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems[16]
- A. D. Hope – Selected Poems[17]
- Jill Jones – The Mask and the Jagged Star[18]
- Les Murray – Translations from the Natural World[19]
- Elizabeth Riddell – Selected Poems[20]
- John Tranter — The Floor of Heaven[21]
Drama[edit]
- Julia Britton – Miles Franklin
- Louis Nowra
Non-fiction[edit]
- Robert Adamson – Wards of the State[22]
- Stephanie Dowrick – Intimacy and Solitude[23]
- Sara Henderson – From Strength to Strength: An Autobiography[24]
- A. D. Hope – Chance Encounters[25]
- Ruth Park – A Fence Around the Cuckoo[26]
- Donna Williams – Nobody Nowhere
Awards and honours[edit]
- Thea Astley AO for "service to Australian literature"[27]
- Jack Pollard OAM for "service to sport and sporting history"[28]
Lifetime achievement[edit]
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[29] | R. A. Simpson Oodgeroo Noonuccal |
| Patrick White Award[30] | Peter Cowan |
Literary[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year Award[31] | Marion Halligan | Lovers' Knots | Heinemann |
| ALS Gold Medal[32] | Rodney Hall | The Second Bridegroom | McPhee Gribble |
| Colin Roderick Award[33] | Ruth Park | A Fence Around the Cuckoo | Viking |
Fiction[edit]
National[edit]
Poetry[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award[38] | Nicolette Stasko | Abundance | Angus & Robertson |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[39] | Kevin Hart | Dog Fox Field: Poems | Golvan Arts |
| Gary Catalano | The Empire of Grass : Twenty-Eight Poems : 1983-1989 | University of Queensland Press | |
| Mary Gilmore Award[40] | Alison Croggon | This is the Stone | Penguin |
Deaths[edit]
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1992 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
- 28 January — Dora Birtles, novelist, short-story writer, poet and travel writer (born 1903)[41]
- 8 February — Roland Robinson, poet, writer and collector of Australian Aboriginal myths (born 1912)[42]
- 24 May — Beatrice Davis, Australia's first full-time book editor (born 1909)[43]
- 19 June — Jas H. Duke, performance poet (born 1939)[44]
- 22 October — Peter Pinney, novelist and travel writer (born 1922)[45]
- 6 December — Mary Finnin, artist, art teacher and poet (born 1906)[46]
- 21 December — Paul White, missionary, evangelist, radio program host and author of the Jungle Doctor Series (born 1910)[47]
See also[edit]
- 1992 in Australia
- 1992 in literature
- 1992 in poetry
- List of years in literature
- List of years in Australian literature
References[edit]
- ^ "Honk If You Are Jesus by Peter Goldsworthy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "The Last Magician by Janette Turner Hospital". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Shearers' Motel by Roger McDonald". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life by Anna Fienberg". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Beware of the Dog by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Browning, P.I. by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "The Japanese Job by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Set Up by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado by Marele Day". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Paydirt by Garry Disher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Death at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Whipping Boy by Gabrielle Lord". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Only Lawyers Dancing by Jan McKemmish". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Quarantine by Greg Egan". ISFDB. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Women, Souls And Shadows by Beatriz Copello". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems by Robert Harris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Selected Poems by A. D. Hope". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "The Mask and the Jagged Star by Jill Jones". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Selected Poems by Elizabeth Riddell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "The Floor of Heaven by John Tranter". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Wards of the State by Robert Adamson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Intimacy and Solitude by Stephanie Dowrick". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "From Strength to Strength: An Autobiography by Sara Henderson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Chance Encounters by A. D. Hope". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Thea Beatrice May Astley, AM". honours.pmc.gov.au. Archived from the original on 25 December 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ^ "Jack Ernest Pollard". honours.pmc.gov.au. Archived from the original on 25 December 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
- ^ ""Book prize and board chair keep Canberra author busy"". The Canberra Times, 5 December 1992, p14. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Age Book of the Year — Imaginative Writing Prize 1992-94". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1992". Austlit. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Cloudstreet - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Castro wins two writers' awards". The Sunday Age, 13 September 1992, p4. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 1992-94". Austlit. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 1991-93". Austlit. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ Cushing, Nancy, "Dora Eileen Birtles (1903–1992)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 13 February 2024
- ^ "Roland Edward Robinson (1912–1992) by Peter Kirkpatrick". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ "Beatrice Deloitte Davis (1909–1992) by Beverley Kingston". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ "Jas Heriot Duke (1939-1992)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Peter Patrick Pinney (1922–1992) by Richard White and Claire Petrie". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ Death Notice showing date of death as 6 Dec 1992, including crossreference to married name Mary Connellan, The Age, published 7 Dec 1992, via Ryerson Index
- ^ Hawkesbury on the Net, Paul White's grave Retrieved 1 June 2009
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