2010 in Australian literature

• 26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours List. • February – The "Australian Book Review" magazine conducted a poll of its readers and announces that Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is Australia's favourite novel. • 22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel Truth becoming the first crime novel to do so. ==Major publications==

Literary fiction • Jon Bauer – Rocks in the Belly • Carmel Bird – Child of the Twilight • Ashley Hay – The Body in the Clouds • Anita Heiss – Manhattan Dreaming • Toni Jordan – Fall Girl • Amanda Lohrey – Reading Madame Bovary (short story collection) • Roger McDonald – When Colts Ran • Fiona McGregor – Indelible Ink • Monica McInerney – At Home with the Templetons • Kate Morton – The Distant Hours • D.B.C. Pierre – Lights Out in Wonderland • Jessica Rudd – Campaign Ruby • Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance • Chris Womersley – Bereft Children's and Young Adult fiction • Alexandra Adornetto – Halo • John Flanagan – The Emperor of Nihon-Ja • Mem Fox – ''Let's Count Goats!'' • Sonya Hartnett – The Midnight Zoo • Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice • Alison Lester – Noni the Pony • Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher • Melina Marchetta – ''The Piper's Son'' • Garth Nix – Lord Sunday • Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay Science Fiction and Fantasy • John Birmingham – After America • Trudi Canavan – ''The Ambassador's Mission'' • Sara Creasy – Song of Scarabaeus • Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate • Greg Egan – Zendegi • Fiona McIntosh – ''King's Wrath'' • Sean McMullen – "Eight Miles" • Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters • Shaun Micallef – Preincarnate • Scott Westerfeld – Behemoth • Sean Williams • The Force Unleashed II • Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance 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==