2020 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020.

• Patrick Allington – Rise & Shine^[1]
• Robbie Arnott – The Rain Heron
• James Bradley – Ghost Species^[2]
• Trent Dalton – All Our Shimmering Skies^[3]
• Jon Doust – Return Ticket^[4]
• Chris Flynn – Mammoth^[5]
• Anna Goldsworthy – Melting Moments^[6]
• Kate Grenville – A Room Made of Leaves^[7]
• Gail Jones – Our Shadows^[8]
• Tom Keneally – The Dickens Boy^[9]
• Sofie Laguna – Infinite Splendours^[10]
• Bem Le Hunte – Elephants with Headlights^[11]
• Carol Lefevre – Murmurations^[12]
• Amanda Lohrey – The Labyrinth
• Laura Jean McKay – The Animals in That Country
• Andrew Pippos – Lucky's^[13]
• Mirandi Riwoe – Stone Sky Gold Mountain^[14]
• Ronnie Scott – The Adversary^[15]
• Craig Silvey – Honeybee^[16]
• Philip Salom – The Fifth Season^[17]
• Nardi Simpson – Song of the Crocodile^[18]
• Madeleine Watts – The Inland Sea^[19]
• Gina Wilkinson – When the Apricots Bloom
• Pip Williams – The Dictionary of Lost Words
• Daniel Davis Wood – At the Edge of the Solid World^[20]
• Evie Wyld – The Bass Rock

• Davina Bell – The End of the World is Bigger than Love^[21]
• Alex Dyson – When It Drops^[22]
• Zana Fraillon – The Lost Soul Atlas^[23]
• Jane Godwin – When Rain Turns to Snow^[24]
• Kate Gordon – Aster's Good, Right Things^[25]
• Libby Hathorn and Lisa Hathorn-Jarman – No! Never!^[26]
• Will Kostakis
  • Rebel Gods^[27]
  • The Greatest Hit^[28]
• Anna McGregor – Anemone Is Not The Enemy
• Cath Moore – Metal Fish, Falling Snow^[29]
• Jaclyn Moriarty – The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst^[30]
• Sally Murphy – Worse Things^[31]
• Katrina Nannestad – We Are Wolves^[32]
• Garth Nix – The Left-Handed Booksellers of London^[33]
• Kirli Saunders – Bindi^[34]
• Shaun Tan – Dog^[35]
• Jessica Townsend – Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

• Anne Buist – The Long Shadow^[36]
• Garry Disher – Consolation
• Candice Fox – Gathering Dark^[37]
• Sulari Gentill – A Testament of Character^[38]
• Jane Harper – The Survivors^[39]
• Sally Hepworth – The Good Sister^[40]
• Dervla McTiernan – The Good Turn^[41]
• J. P. Pomare – Tell Me Lies^[42]
• Michael Robotham – When She Was Good^[43]
• Sarah Thornton – White Throat^[44]
• David Whish-Wilson – True West^[45]

• Max Barry – Providence
• Trudi Canavan – Maker's Curse^[46]
• Greg Egan – Instantiation
• Gillian Polack – Poison & Light^[47]
• Paul Voermans – The White Library^[48]

• Laurie Duggan – Homer Street
• Michael Farrell – Family Trees
• Kate Llewellyn – Harbour
• Felicity Plunkett – A Kinder Sea
• Ellen van Neerven
  • Homeland Calling: Words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices (as editor)
  • Throat

• Julia Baird – Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark
• Richard Fidler – The Golden Maze: A History of Prague
• Michael Gawenda – The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Life
• Eddie Jaku – The Happiest Man on Earth
• John Kinsella – Displaced: A Rural Life
• Grace Karskens – People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia
• Michael Gawenda – The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian
• Sophie McNeill – We Can't Say We Didn't Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity
• Brenda Niall – Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
• Caroline Overington – Missing William Tyrrell
• Christopher Pyne – The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble
• Cassandra Pybus – Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
• Miranda Tapsell – Top End Girl
• Robert Tickner – Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion
• Malcolm Turnbull – A Bigger Picture

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

• 1 January – Alexander Frater, travel writer and journalist (born 1937 in Vanuatu)^[76]
• 6 January – Timoshenko Aslanides, poet (born 1943)^[77]
• 20 January – Steph Bowe, young adult novelist and blogger (born 1994)^[78]
• 1 April – Bruce Dawe, poet (born 1930)^[79]
• 14 May – Judith Clarke, writer for children and teenagers (born 1943)^[80]
• 5 June – Andrew Riemer, literary critic and author (born 1936)^[81]
• 10 June – Jesse Blackadder, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1964)^[82]
• 7 July – Elizabeth Harrower, novelist (born 1928)^[83]
• 10 September – Barbara Ker Wilson, English-born Australian editor and novelist (born 1929)^[84]
• 29 September – Ania Walwicz, poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist (born 1951 in Poland)^[85]
• 6 November – Gerald Stone, journalist (born 1933 in USA)^[86]
• 14 November – Greg Growden, sports journalist, author and biographer (born 1959/60)^[87]
• 9 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator (born 1941)^[88]
• 12 December – Wendy Brennan, romantic fiction writer (co-wrote with husband Frank Brennan as Emma Darcy) (born 1940)^[89]

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