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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2008. For an overview of world literature see 2008 in literature. ''See also:'' 2007 in Australian literature, 2008 in Australia, 2009 in Australian literature. ==Events== *"The Bulletin" magazine publishes its last issue, the first was in 1880〔(The Bulletin shuts down after 128 years )〕 *The Australia Council for the Arts announces Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane as recipients of its 2008 emeritus writers awards〔(Critically acclaimed writers honoured with top literary prize )〕 *The Australian Federal Government announces funding for a new chair of Australian Literature based at the University of Western Australia〔(Government funds new Chair in Australian Literature )〕 *Clunes, Victoria, holds its second Booktown weekend〔(The book of regenesis )〕 *The first Crime and Justice Festival in held in Melbourne over the weekend of 19–20 July〔(Crime and Justice Festival )〕 *Australia wins the right to host the 2010 World SF convention in Melbourne〔(Aussiecon 4 )〕 *A number of previously unknown Banjo Paterson poems are found in an old cash book dating back to the Boer War 〔(Poet's works discovered in war diary )〕 *UNESCO names Melbourne as its second City of Literature, after Edinburgh received the first such award in 2004〔(Write at the centre )〕 *Caro Llewellyn, a former director of the Sydney Writers' Festival and PEN World Voices Festival in New York, is appointed as director of the new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (now called the Wheeler Centre) in Melbourne〔(Centre for writing and books gains services of a mind much travelled )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2008 in Australian literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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