2010 in Australian literature

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
• Law and Impulse: Maths and Chemistry Poems
• Brook Emery ed. (with John L Sheppard and Victoria Haritos) – Holding Patterns: Physics and Engineering Poems
• 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

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

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)
• 6 October — David Rowbotham, author (born 1924)
• 14 November — Bobbi Sykes, poet and author (born 1943)
• 14 December — Ruth Park, author (born 1917)

See also

• 2010 in Australia
• 2010 in literature
• 2010 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature
• List of Australian literary awards

References