1. Events

2. Major publications
    Literary fiction  Children's and Young Adult fiction  Science Fiction and Fantasy  Crime and Mystery  Poetry  Biography 

3. Awards and honours
    Lifetime achievement  Fiction  International  National  Children and Young Adult  National  Crime and Mystery  National  Science Fiction  Non-Fiction  Poetry  Drama 

4. Deaths

5. See also

6. References

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2011.

Events

• Four authors are named in the Queen's Birthday Honours: Peter FitzSimons, Susanne Gervay, Roland Perry, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe^[1]
• Thomas Keneally donates his personal library to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts^[2]
• Australian libraries and library associations join together to make 2012 the National Year of Reading^[3]
• Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) declares Saturday, 20 August 2011, the inaugural National Bookshop Day^[4]
• Final issue of the "Australian Literary Review" to be published in October 2011^[5]
• Hannie Rayson is the first Australian to be awarded a commission with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club^[6]
• Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley establish funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy via the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund^[7]
• Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are appointed to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates^[8]
• The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) appoints Robert Adamson to hold the inaugural CAL Chair in Australian Poetry^[9]

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Tony Birch – Blood
• Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing
• Annah Faulkner – The Beloved
• Anna Funder – All That I Am
• Kate Grenville – Sarah Thornhill
• Gail Jones – Five Bells
• Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
• Alex Miller – Autumn Laing
• Frank Moorhouse – Cold Light
• Favel Parrett – Past The Shallows
• Elliot Perlman – The Street Sweeper
• Craig Sherborne – The Amateur Science of Love
• Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party
• Charlotte Wood – Animal People

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Alexandra Adornetto – Hades
• Em Bailey – Shift
• J. C. Burke – Pig Boy
• Isobelle Carmody – The Sending
• Ursula Dubosarsky – The Golden Day
• Scott Gardner – The Dead I Know
• Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails
• Andrew McGahan – The Coming of the Whirlpool
• Melina Marchetta – Froi of the Exiles
• Vikki Wakefield – All I Ever Wanted
• Scott Westerfeld – Goliath

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Max Barry – Machine Man
• Trudi Canavan – The Rogue
• Peter Docker – The Water Boys
• Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
• Will Elliott – Shadow
• Kim Falconer – Road to the Soul
• Pamela Freeman – Ember and Ash
• Richard Harland – Liberator
• Glenda Larke – Stormlord's Exile
• Kim Westwood – The Courier's New Bicycle

Crime and Mystery

• Alan Carter – Prime Cut
• Peter Corris – Follow the Money
• Garry Disher – Whispering Death
• Kerry Greenwood – Cooking the Books
• Stuart Littlemore – Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice
• Barry Maitland – Chelsea Mansion
• Kel Robertson – Rip Off
• Michael Robotham – The Wreckage

Poetry

• Ali Alizadeh – Ashes in the Air
• Joanne Burns – Amphora
• Barry Hill – Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings
• John Kinsella – Armour
• Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited)
• Jaya Savige – Surface to Air

Biography

• Julian Assange – Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
• A. J. Brown – Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles
• Eileen Chanin – Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907
• Raimond Gaita – After Romulus
• Mark McKenna – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark
• Susan Mitchell – Tony Abbott: A Man's Man
• Christine Nixon – Fair Cop
• Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story
• Alice Pung – Her Father's Daughter
• David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History
• Sarah Watt, William McInnes – Worse Things Happen at Sea

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

• 1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951)
• 20 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915)
• 2 September – Bernard Smith, poet (born 1916)
• 27 September – Sara Douglass, author (born 1957)
• 4 October – Di Gribble, editor and publisher (born 1942)
• 8 December – Zelman Cowen, jurist (born 1919)

See also

• Literature
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of Australian literary awards
• 2011 in Australia
• 2011 in literature
• 2011 in poetry

References

• George Beal
• George beal
• George Beall
• George Beamer
• George Beamish
• George Beard
• George Beare (footballer)
• George Beatson
• George Beattie (footballer)
• George Beattie (shooter)
• George Beatty
• George Beatty (judge)
• George Beaumont
• George Beaumont (disambiguation)
• George Beavan
• George Beazeley
• George Beban
• George Becali
• George Bechtel
• George Beck
• George Beck (disambiguation)
• George Becke
• George Becker (composer)
• George Beckwith
• George Beckwith (British Army officer)