2010 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2010.
Events
- 26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member 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
- Roger McDonald – When Colts Ran
- Fiona McGregor – Indelible Ink
- Monica McInerney – At Home with the Templetons
- 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
- 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
- Trudi Canavan – The Ambassador's Mission
- Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate
- Greg Egan – Zendegi
- Fiona McIntosh – King's Wrath
- Sean McMullen – "Eight Miles"
- Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters
- 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.
- * Earthly Matters: Biology and Geology Poems
- * Law and Impulse: Maths and Chemistry Poems
- Brook Emery ed. – 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
Drama
Deaths
- 15 March — Patricia Wrightson, author
- 23 April — Peter Porter, author
- 29 May — Randolph Stow, author
- 9 July — Jessica Anderson, author
- 19 July — Jon Cleary, author
- 6 September — John McKellar, playwright
- 8 September — Donald Horne, author
- 6 October — David Rowbotham, author
- 14 November — Bobbi Sykes, poet and author
- 14 December — Ruth Park, author