Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 1988
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1988 .
Major publications [ edit ] Short stories [ edit ] Children's and young adult fiction [ edit ] Crime fiction [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] Awards and honours [ edit ] Dorothy Auchterlonie Green AO , for "service to Australian literature, particularly as a writer, critic and teacher"[15] Elizabeth Jolley AO , for "service to Australian literature"[16] Rosemary Wighton AO , for "public service, to literature and to the community"[17] Tom Hungerford AM , for "service to literature"[18] David Martin (poet) AM , for "service to Australian literature"[19] Gavin Souter AM , for "service to literature and journalism"[20] Len Beadell OAM , for "service to the Public service and to literature"[21] Lifetime achievement [ edit ] Literary [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] International [ edit ] National [ edit ] Children and Young Adult [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] 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 )[40] 28 February — Kylie Tennant , novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian (born 1912 )[41] 31 July — Stephen Murray-Smith , writer, editor and educator (born 1922 )[42] 12 November — Vincent Buckley , poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic (born 1925 )[43] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "Austlit — The Velodrome by Liam Davison" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Maralinga, My Love by Dorothy Johnston" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — The Rose Fnacier by Olga Masters" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — When You Come to the Ferry by Hesba Brinsmead" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillina Rubinstein" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender by Marele Day" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Bone Scan by Gwen Harwood" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — The House by Water: New and Selected Poems by Judith Rodriguez" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Under Berlin by John Tranter" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Escape from a Better Place by Jan Cornall" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Down Home: Revisiting Tasmania by Peter Conrad" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — The Penguin New Literary History of Australia edoited by Laurie Hergenhan" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers by Dale Spender" . Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2023 . ^ "Dorothy Green, OAM" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019 . ^ "Monica Elizabeth Jolley" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019 . ^ "Rosemary Neville Wighton" . Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2020 . ^ "Thomas Arthur Guy Hungerford" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019 . ^ "David Martin" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019 . ^ "Gavin Geoffrey Souter" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019 . ^ "Leonard Beadell, BEM" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019 . ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award" . Austlit. Retrieved 13 September 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners" . Austlit. Retrieved 22 August 2023 . ^ a b c "Moorhouse's 'Forty-Seventeen' is Age Book of the Year" " . The Age, 9 December 1988, p4. ProQuest 2521177872 . Retrieved 28 May 2024 . ^ "ALS Gold Medal - Previous Winners" . Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 10 November 2023 . ^ "Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners" . James Cook University. Retrieved 10 November 2023 . ^ Jordison, Sam (28 May 2008). "Looking back at the Booker: Peter Carey" . The Guardian . ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF) . Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 17 January 2024 . ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners" . State Library of South Australia . Retrieved 18 April 2024 . ^ "Austlit — The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award 1988" . Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award" . Austlit. Retrieved 14 September 2023 . ^ a b c d "Award to book on Lawson's mother" . Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1988, p4. ProQuest 2526412308 . Retrieved 3 May 2024 . ^ a b c "Season of gifts" . The Age Monthly Review, 1 September 1988, p2. ProQuest 2521064438 . Retrieved 26 April 2024 . ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 1985-88" . Austlit. Retrieved 9 February 2024 . ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 1988" . Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2023 . ^ "Mary Gilmore Award" . Association for the Study of Australian Literature . Retrieved 8 February 2024 . ^ "Austlit — Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers 1988" . Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2023 . ^ "Austlit — Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book 1988" . Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2023 . ^ " "Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction — 1988" " . Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2023 . ^ "Duncan-Kemp, Alice Monkton (1901–1988) by Pamela Lukin Watson" . Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 23 September 2023 . ^ "Kathleen (Kylie) Tennant (1912–1988) by Jane Grant" . Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 25 November 2023 . ^ "Stephen Murray-Smith (1922-1988)" . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . The University of Queensland. Retrieved 26 September 2023 . ^ "Vincent Buckley (1925-1988)" . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . The University of Queensland. Retrieved 26 September 2023 .