2011 in Australian literature

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

• 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]

• Tony Birch – Blood
• Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing^[10]
• Annah Faulkner – The Beloved^[11]
• Anna Funder – All That I Am
• Kate Grenville – Sarah Thornhill
• Gail Jones – Five Bells
• Jeanine Leane – Purple Threads
• 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^[12]
• Cory Taylor – Me and Mr Booker^[13]
• Rohan Wilson – The Roving Party
• Charlotte Wood – Animal People^[14]

• Alexandra Adornetto – Hades^[15]
• Em Bailey – Shift^[16]
• J. C. Burke – Pig Boy
• Isobelle Carmody – The Sending
• Ursula Dubosarsky – The Golden Day
• Scott Gardner – The Dead I Know^[17]
• Steven Herrick – Black Painted Fingernails^[18]
• Andrew McGahan – The Coming of the Whirlpool^[19]
• Melina Marchetta – Froi of the Exiles^[20]
• Vikki Wakefield – All I Ever Wanted^[21]
• Scott Westerfeld – Goliath

• Max Barry – Machine Man
• Trudi Canavan – The Rogue
• Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
• Will Elliott – Shadow^[22]
• Kim Falconer – Road to the Soul^[23]
• Pamela Freeman – Ember and Ash^[24]
• Richard Harland – Liberator^[25]
• Glenda Larke – Stormlord's Exile^[26]
• Kim Westwood – The Courier's New Bicycle

• Alan Carter – Prime Cut^[27]
• Peter Corris – Follow the Money^[28]
• Garry Disher – Whispering Death^[29]
• Sulari Gentill – A Decline in Prophets^[30]
• Kerry Greenwood – Cooking the Books^[31]
• Malcolm Knox – The Life
• Stuart Littlemore – Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice^[32]
• Barry Maitland – Chelsea Mansions^[33]
• Kel Robertson – Rip Off^[34]
• Michael Robotham – The Wreckage^[35]

• Ali Alizadeh – Ashes in the Air^[36]
• Joanne Burns – Amphora^[37]
• Barry Hill – Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings^[38]
• John Kinsella – Armour^[39]
• Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray – Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited)^[40]
• Jaya Savige – Surface to Air^[41]

• Julian Assange – Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography^[42]
• A. J. Brown – Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles^[43]
• Eileen Chanin – Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836–1907^[44]
• Raimond Gaita – After Romulus^[45]
• Mark McKenna – An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark^[46]
• Susan Mitchell – Tony Abbott: A Man's Man^[47]
• Christine Nixon – Fair Cop^[48]
• Sue Pieters-Hawke – Hazel: My Mother's Story^[49]
• Alice Pung – Her Father's Daughter^[50]
• David Robert Walker – Not Dark Yet: A Personal History^[51]
• Sarah Watt & William McInnes – Worse Things Happen at Sea^[52]

• 1 March – Hazel Rowley, author (born 1951)^[78]
• 15 June – Anne Godfrey-Smith, poet and theatre producer/director (born 1921)^[79]
• 20 June – T. A. G. Hungerford, author (born 1915)^[80]
• 2 September – Bernard Smith, art historian (born 1916)
• 27 September – Sara Douglass, author (born 1957)^[81]
• 4 October – Di Gribble, editor and publisher (born 1942)
• 8 December – Zelman Cowen, jurist (born 1919)

Unknown date

• May – Robert J. Merritt, playwright (born 1945)

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