2007 in Australian literature

Events

• Surrender by Sonya Hartnett, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak are named as Honor Books in the 2007 American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
• "The Guardian" newspaper from the UK reports that Borders plans to sell its Australian stores.
• The small township of Clunes, about 20 kilometres north of Ballarat in Victoria, decides to try to set up Australia's first dedicated booktown. The first weekend event takes place on 20 May.
• AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), the major Australian literature resource for research and teaching housed at the University of Queensland, announces the commencement of "Black Words", a literary website specialising in Australian Indigenous writers and storytellers and their works.
• Federal Education minister, Julie Bishop, announces that the Australian Government will allocate funds to A$1.5m to create a Chair of Australian Literature in an Australian university.
• Charlie Rimmer, Group Commercial Manager for Angus and Robertson bookshops, writes to a number of Australian independent publishers indicating that the bookshop chain will refuse to stock their books without compensation.
• Lonely Planet, the iconic Australian publisher of travel guides, is sold to the commercial division of the BBC in a deal reportedly worth A$200 million.
• Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announces a major new literary prize of $100,000 in both fiction and non-fiction categories.
• Australia-Asia Literary Award established.

Major publications

Literary fiction

• David Brooks – The Fern Tattoo
• Steven Carroll – The Time We Have Taken
• Belinda Castles – The River Baptists
• Jon Cleary – Four-Cornered Circle
• J. M. Coetzee – Diary of a Bad Year
• Matthew Condon – The Trout Opera
• Steven Conte – The Zookeeper's War
• Gregory Day – Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds
• Michelle de Kretser – The Lost Dog
• Nicholas Drayson – Love and the Platypus
• Karen Foxlee – The Anatomy of Wings
• Rodney Hall – Love Without Hope
• Janette Turner Hospital – Orpheus Lost
• Gail Jones – Sorry
• Mireille Juchau – Burning In
• Thomas Keneally – The Widow and Her Hero
• Malcolm Knox – Jamaica
• Christopher Koch – The Memory Room
• Carol Lefevre – Nights in the Asylum
• Colleen McCullough – Antony and Cleopatra
• Rhyll McMaster – Feather Man
• David Malouf – The Complete Stories
• Alex Miller – Landscape of Farewell
• Kate Morton – The House at Riverton
• Nicholas Shakespeare – Secrets of the Sea
• Allayne Webster – Our Little Secret
• Jessica White – A Curious Intimacy
• Charlotte Wood – The Children
• Geraldine Wooller – The Seamstress

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Alexandra Adornetto – The Shadow Thief
• Sherryl Clark – Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!), illus by Elissa Christian
• John Flanagan
  • Erak's Ransom
  • The Siege of Macindaw
• Mem Fox – Where the Giant Sleeps
• Jackie French
  • Pharaoh: The Boy Who Conquered the Nile
  • The Shaggy Gully Times, illus by Bruce Whatley
• Jane Godwin – Falling from Grace
• Sonya Hartnett – The Ghost's Child
• Lian Hearn – Heaven's Net is Wide
• John Heffernan – Marty's Shadow
• Odo Hirsch – Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp
• Justine Larbalestier – Magic's Child
• Brigid Lowry – Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful
• Juliet Marillier – Cybele's Secret
• Meme McDonald – Love Like Water
• David Metzenthen
  • Black Water
  • Winning the World Cup, illus by Stephen Axelsen
• Garth Nix – Lady Friday
• Leonie Norrington – Leaving Barrumbi
• Emily Rodda – The Key to Rondo
• Scott Westerfeld – Extras
• Carole Wilkinson – Dragon Moon

Crime and Mystery

• Mark Abernethy – Golden Serpent
• John Clanchy and Mark Henshaw (J.M. Calder) – And Hope to Die
• Garry Disher – Chain of Evidence
• Kathryn Fox – Skin and Bone
• Robert Gott – Amongst the Dead
• Kerry Greenwood – Trick or Treat
• Sarah Hopkins – The Crimes of Billy Fish
• Katherine Howell – Frantic
• Gabrielle Lord – Shattered
• Shane Maloney – Sucked In
• Dorothy Porter – El Dorado
• Leigh Redhead – Cherry Pie
• Michael Robotham – The Night Ferry
• Steve Toltz – A Fraction of the Whole
• Chris Womersley – The Low Road

Romance

• Anna Campbell – Claiming the Courtesan
• Emma Darcy – The Billionaire's Scandalous Marriage
• Lilian Darcy – Cafe du Jour
• Kimberley Freeman – Duet
• Anna Jacobs – Tomorrow's Promises
• Melanie La'Brooy – Serendipity
• Tamara McKinley – Lands Beyond the Sea

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• David Conyers & John Sunseri – The Spiraling Worm
• Marianne de Pierres – Dark Space
• Sara Douglass – The Serpent Bride
• Greg Egan
  • "Dark Integers"
  • "Glory"
  • "Induction"
• Lian Hearn – Heaven's Net is Wide
• Jack Heath – Remote Control
• David Kowalski – The Company of the Dead
• Karen Miller
  • Empress of Mijak
  • The Riven Kingdom
• James Moloney – Master of the Books
• Jason Nahrung & Mil Clayton – The Darkness Within
• Garth Nix – "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again"
• Susan Parisi – Blood of Dreams
• Ben Peek – Black Sheep: A Dystopian Novel
• Matthew Reilly – Hell Island
• Jonathan Strahan – The New Space Opera (edited)
• Sean Williams – Saturn Returns

Drama

• Stephen Carleton – The Narcissist
• Michael Gow – Toy Symphony
• Tom Holloway – Beyond the Neck
• Caleb Lewis – Dogfall
• Katherine Thomson – King Tide
• Alana Valentine – Parramatta Girls

Poetry

• Judith Bishop – Event
• David Brooks – Urban Elegies
• Brook Emery — Uncommon Light
• Lisa Gorton – Press Release
• Kathryn Lomer – Two Kinds of Silence
• David Malouf – Typewriter Music
• Dorothy Porter – El Dorado
• Peter Rose – The Best Australian Poems 2007 (edited)
• Peter Skrzynecki – Old/New World
• John Tranter – The Best Australian Poetry 2007 (edited)
• Petra White – The Incoming Tide

Non-fiction

• Waleed Aly – People Like Us
• Janet Fife-Yeomans – Killing Jodie
• Tom Griffiths – Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
• Clive James – Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
• Paul Ham – Vietnam: The Australian War
• Philip Jones – Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
• Evan McHugh – Red Centre, Dark Heart
• Nicolas Rothwell – Another Country
• Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers and Gordon Parker – Journeys with the Black Dog (editors)

Children's and Young Adult Non-fiction

• Christobel Mattingley – Battle Order 204

Biographies

• Philip Dwyer – Napoleon: The Path To Power 1769–1799
• Kim Huynh – Where the Sea Takes Us
• Mark Kurzem – The Mascot
• Brenda Niall – Life Class: The Education of a Biographer
• Craig Sherborne – Muck
• Jeff Sparrow – Communism: A Love Story

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

International

National

Crime and Mystery

International

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 13 February – Elizabeth Jolley, author (born 1923)
• 22 February – Joyce Lee, poet (born 1913)
• 2 March – David A. Myers, poet and publisher (born 1942)
• 23 May – John Croyston, poet (born 1933)
• 11 July – Glenda Adams, author (born 1939)
• 11 July – Noel Rowe, poet (born 1951)
• 1 August – Mona Brand, playwright (born 1915)
• 24 August – Philip Grundy, translator (born 1932)
• 16 October – Steve J. Spears, author and playwright (born 1951)
• 31 October – Eric Rolls, author (born 1923)
• 24 December – Jan McKemmish, author (born 1950)

References

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

References

1. [http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bookmediaawards&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=128605 The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature]
2. [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/mar/22/books.booksnews "The Guardian" 22.03.2007]
3. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/clunes-to-do-it-by-the-book/2007/05/10/1178390472924.html Clunes to do it by the book]
4. [http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=12223 New website brings Black Words into focus]
5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110114051725/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/07/1998138.htm?site=idx-act Bishop creates Aust literature position]
6. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/bookshop-chain-puts-bite-on-small-publishers/2007/08/07/1186252708854.html Bookshop chain puts bite on small publishers]
7. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/payday-for-travellers-who-forged-an-empire/2007/10/01/1191091031248.html Payday for travellers who forged an empire]
8. "Rudd to reward Aussie writers".
9. "''The Trout Opera'' by Matthew Condon". National Library of Australia.
10. "''Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds'' by Gregory Day". National Library of Australia.
11. "''Love and the Platypus'' by Nicholas Drayson". National Library of Australia.
12. "''The Anatomy of Wings'' by Karen Foxlee". National Library of Australia.
13. "''Orpheus Lost'' by Janette Turner Hospital". National Library of Australia.
14. "''Burning In'' by Mireille Juchau". National Library of Australia.
15. "''The Memory Room'' by Christopher Koch". National Library of Australia.
16. "''Nights in the Asylum'' by Carol Lefevre". National Library of Australia.
17. "''The Complete Stories'' by David Malouf". National Library of Australia.
18. "''Secrets of the Sea'' by Nicholas Shakespeare". National Library of Australia.
19. "''A Curious Intimacy'' by Jessica White". National Library of Australia.
20. "''The Children'' by Charlotte Wood". National Library of Australia.
21. "''The Seamstress'' by Geraldine Wooller". National Library of Australia.
22. "''The Shadow Thief'' by Alexandra Adornetto". National Library of Australia.
23. "''Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!)'' by Sherryl Clark". National Library of Australia.
24. "''Pharaoh: The Boy Who Conquered the Nile'' by Jackie French". National Library of Australia.
25. "''The Shaggy Gully Times'' by Jackie French". National Library of Australia.
26. "''Marty's Shadow'' by John Heffernan". National Library of Australia.
27. "''Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp'' by Odo Hirsch". National Library of Australia.
28. "''Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful'' by Brigid Lowry". National Library of Australia.
29. "''Love Like Water'' by Meme McDonald". National Library of Australia.
30. "''Black Water'' by David Metzenthen". National Library of Australia.
31. "''Winning the World Cup'' by David Metzenthen". National Library of Australia.
32. "''Leaving Barrumbi'' by Leonie Norrington". National Library of Australia.
33. "''The Key to Rondo'' by Emily Rodda". National Library of Australia.
34. "''Golden Serpent'' by Mark Abernethy". National Library of Australia.
35. "''And Hope to Die'' by J. M. Calder". National Library of Australia.
36. "''Skin and Bone'' by Kathryn Fox". National Library of Australia.
37. "''Amongst the Dead'' by Robert Gott". National Library of Australia.
38. "''Trick or Treat'' by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia.
39. "''The Crimes of Billy Fish'' by Sarah Hopkins". National Library of Australia.
40. "''Shattered'' by Gabrielle Lord". National Library of Australia.
41. "''Sucked In'' by Shane Maloney". National Library of Australia.
42. "''El Dorado'' by Dorothy Porter". National Library of Australia.
43. "''Cherry Pie'' by Leigh Redhead". National Library of Australia.
44. "''Claiming the Courtesan'' by Anna Campbell". National Library of Australia.
45. "''The Billionaire's Scandalous Marriage'' by Emma Darcy". National Library of Australia.
46. "''Cafe du Jour'' by Lilian Darcy". National Library of Australia.
47. "''Duet'' by Kimberley Freeman". National Library of Australia.
48. "''Tomorrow's Promises'' by Anna Jacobs". National Library of Australia.
49. "''Serendipity'' by Melanie La'Brooy". National Library of Australia.
50. "''Lands Beyond the Sea'' by Tamara McKinley". National Library of Australia.
51. "''The Serpent Bride'' by Sara Douglass". ISFDB.
52. "''Remote Control'' by Jack Heath". ISFDB.
53. "''The Company of the Dead'' by David Kowalski". ISFDB.
54. "''The Darkness Within'' by Jason Nahrung & Mil Clayton". ISFDB.
55. "''Black Sheep: A Dystopian Novel'' by Ben Peek". ISFDB.
56. "''Saturn Returns'' by Sean Williams". ISFDB.
57. "''The Narcissist'' by Stephen Carleton". Austlit.
58. "''Toy Symphony'' by Michael Gow". Austlit.
59. "''Beyond the Neck'' by Tom Holloway". Austlit.
60. "''King Tide'' by Katherine Thomson". Austlit.
61. "''Event'' by Judith Bishop". National Library of Australia.
62. "''Urban Elegies'' by David Brooks". National Library of Australia.
63. [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3990866 "Uncommon light : poems / Brook Emery", ''National Library of Australia''.]
64. "''Press Release'' by Lisa Gorton". National Library of Australia.
65. "''Two Kinds of Silence'' by Kathryn Lomer". National Library of Australia.
66. "''Typewriter Music'' by David Malouf". National Library of Australia.
67. "''El Dorado'' by Dorothy Porter". National Library of Australia.
68. "''The Best Australian Poems 2007'' edited by Peter Rose". Austlit.
69. "''Old/New World'' by Peter Skrzynecki". National Library of Australia.
70. "''The Incoming Tide'' by Petra White". National Library of Australia.
71. "''Killing Jodie'' by Janet Fife-Yeomans". National Library of Australia.
72. "''Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica'' by Tom Griffiths". National Library of Australia.
73. "''Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers'' by Philip Jones". National Library of Australia.
74. "''Red Centre, Dark Heart'' by Evan McHugh". National Library of Australia.
75. "''Another Country'' by Nicolas Rothwell". National Library of Australia.
76. "''Napoleon: The Path To Power 1769–1799'' by Philip Dwyer". National Library of Australia.
77. "''Where the Sea Takes Us'' by Kim Huynh". National Library of Australia.
78. "''The Mascot'' by Mark Kurzem". National Library of Australia.
79. "''Life Class: The Education of a Biographer'' by Brenda Niall". National Library of Australia.
80. "''Muck'' by Craig Sherborne". National Library of Australia.
81. "''Communism: A Love Story'' by Jeff Sparrow". National Library of Australia.
82. ""PM's Literary Awards-Winners and shortlists-Armour"". Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.
83. "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit.
84. (2007-08-25). "Entitled to tell a story".
85. "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
86. "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University.
87. (2009-06-09). "Kibble Literary Award".
88. "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007". Commonwealth Foundation.
89. ""Debut novel wins ABC award"". ABC News, 7 March 2007.
90. "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners".
91. ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2006-2008"". Austlit.
92. "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit.
93. ""2007 NSW Premier's Literary Awards "". Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 2007.
94. ""Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Previous Winners"". Queensland Government.
95. "Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2007 Winner".
96. ""Australian Literary Awards: Western Australian Premier's"". University Libraries, University of Washington.
97. "Andre Norton Award 2007". [[Locus (magazine).
98. ""CWA Gold Dagger – Past Winners"". The Crime Writers' Association.
99. ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2007"". LibraryThing.
100. "2007 Ned Kelly Award Winners".
101. [http://www.writers.asn.au/uploads/file/pdf/FAWResults2007.PDF 2007 National Literary Awards] {{webarchive. link. (20 July 2008)
102. "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2005-2007". Austlit.
103. "Mary Gilmore Award".
104. ""Patrick White Playwrights' Award – Past Winners"". Sydney Theatre Company.
105. ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW.
106. "Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007)". The University of Queensland.
107. "Austlit — Joyce Lee (1913-2007)". Austlit.
108. "Austlit — David A. Myers (1942-2007)". Austlit.
109. "Austlit — John Croyston (1933-2007)". Austlit.
110. "Glenda Adams (1939-2007)". The University of Queensland.
111. "Austlit — Noel Rowe (1951-2007)". Austlit.
112. "Mona Brand (1915-2007)". The University of Queensland.
113. "Austlit — Philip Grundy (1932-2007)". Austlit.
114. "Steve J. Spears (1951-2007)". The University of Queensland.
115. "Eric Rolls (1923-2007)". The University of Queensland.
116. "Austlit — Jan McKemmish (1950-2007)". Austlit.