1988 in Australian literature

Science fiction and fantasy

• Damien Broderick
• Matilda at the Speed of Light (edited)
• Striped Holes
• David J. Lake — West of the Moon
• Lucy Sussex – "My Lady Tongue"

Poetry

• Gwen Harwood — Bone Scan
• Judith Rodriguez — The House by Water: New and Selected Poems
• John Tranter — Under Berlin

Drama

• Andrew Bovell — After Dinner
• Jan Cornall — Escape from a Better Place

Non-fiction

• Tom Cole — Hell West and Crooked
• Peter Conrad — Down Home: Revisiting Tasmania
• Laurie Hergenhan (editor) — The Penguin New Literary History of Australia
• Eric Rolls — A Million Wild Acres
• Dale Spender — Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers

Awards and honours

• Dorothy Auchterlonie Green , for "service to Australian literature, particularly as a writer, critic and teacher"
• Elizabeth Jolley , for "service to Australian literature"
• Rosemary Wighton , for "public service, to literature and to the community"
• Tom Hungerford , for "service to literature"
• David Martin (poet) , for "service to Australian literature"
• Gavin Souter , for "service to literature and journalism"
• Len Beadell , for "service to the Public service and to literature"

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

Science fiction and fantasy

Poetry

Drama

Non-fiction

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1988 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 4 January — Alice Duncan-Kemp, writer and Indigenous rights activist (born 1901)
• 28 February — Kylie Tennant, novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian (born 1912)
• 31 July — Stephen Murray-Smith, writer, editor and educator (born 1922)
• 12 November — Vincent Buckley, poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic (born 1925)

See also

• 1988 in Australia
• 1988 in literature
• 1988 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References