1984 in Australian literature

• Tim Winton’s Shallows won the 1984 Miles Franklin Award == Major publications ==

Novels • Sumner Locke Elliott — About Tilly Beamis • Helen Garner — ''The Children's Bach'' • Nicholas Hasluck — The Bellarmine Jug • David Ireland — Archimedes and the Seagle • Peter Kocan — The Treatment; and, the Cure • Elizabeth Jolley — Milk and Honey • Amanda Lohrey — The Morality of Gentlemen • David Malouf — ''Harland's Half Acre'' • Jill Neville — Last Ferry to Manly • Randolph Stow — The Suburbs of Hell • Tim Winton — Shallows Crime and mystery • Marshall Browne — Dark Harbour • Peter Corris — Heroin Annie and Other Cliff Hardy Stories • Evan Green — Alice to Nowhere • Tony Kenrick — Blast • William Marshall — The Far Away Man Science fiction and fantasy • A. Bertram Chandler — The Wild Ones • Victor Kelleher — The Beast of Heaven • Keith Taylor — Bard II • Cherry Wilder • A Princess of the Chameln • Yorath the Wolf Short story anthologies • John Morrison — Stories of the Waterfront Children's and young adult fiction • James Aldridge — The True Story of Lilli Stubeck • Robin Klein — Hating Alison Ashley • Emily Rodda — Something Special • Nadia Wheatley — Dancing in the Anzac Deli Poetry • John Barnes and Brian McFarlane – Cross Country : A Book of Australian Verse • Doris Brett — The Truth about Unicorns • Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Peter Pierce (editors) — Clubbing the Gunfire : 101 Australian War Poems • Rosemary Dobson — The Three Fates & Other Poems • Robert Gray — The Skylight • Syd Harrex — Atlantis and Other Poems • Kevin Hart — Your Shadow • Dorothy Porter — The Night Parrot ==Awards and honours==

• Nancy Cato , for "service to Australian literature" • John Manifold , for "service literature as a poet and musician • Dorothy Auchterlonie Green , for "service to Australian literature" Lifetime achievement Literary awards Fiction awards 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 1984 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. • 21 January — Alan Marshall, writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter (born 1902) • 12 March — Peg Maltby, artist, book illustrator and children's writer (born 1899 in England) • 6 June — A. Bertram Chandler, mariner-turned-science fiction writer (born 1912) • 24 June — Francis Brabazon, poet and member of Meher Baba's mandali (born 1907) • 29 September — Hal Porter, novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer (1911) • 10 November — Xavier Herbert, writer (born 1901) • 10 December — Jean Campbell, novelist (born 1901) • 23 December — Joan Lindsay, novelist, playwright, essayist and visual artist (born 1896) == See also ==