2017 in Australian literature

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See also: 2016 in Australian literature, 2017 in Australia, and 2018 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017.

Major publications[]

Literary fiction[]

  • Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home
  • Felicity Castagna – No More Boats
  • J. M. Coetzee – The Schooldays of Jesus
  • Michelle de Kretser — The Life to Come
  • Robert Drewe — Whipbird
  • Richard Flanagan – First Person
  • Sofie Laguna — The Choke
  • Catherine McKinnon – Storyland: The land is a book, waiting to be read
  • Alex Miller — The Passage of Love
  • Bram Presser — The Book of Dirt
  • Kim Scott — Taboo

Children's and Young Adult fiction[]

  • Judith Clarke – My Lovely Frankie
  • Zana Fraillon – The Ones That Disappeared
  • Morris Gleitzman – Maybe (sequel to Once, Then, Now, After, Soon)
  • Andy Griffiths – The Tree House Fun Book 2 and The 91-Storey Treehouse
  • Jessica Townsend – Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Crime[]

  • Sulari Gentill — Crossing the Lines
  • Jane Harper – Force of Nature
  • Michael Robotham — The Secrets She Keeps

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fiction[]

Poetry[]

  • Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry
  • Bella Li – Argosy
  • Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real
  • Fiona Wright – Domestic Interiors

Drama[]

Biographies[]

  • Judith Brett — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin

Non-fiction[]

  • Peter FitzSimons – Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
  • Kate Grenville – The Case Against Fragrance
  • Alexis Wright – Tracker

Awards and honours[]

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement[]

Award Author
Patrick White Award[1] Tony Birch

Fiction[]

National[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[2] The Lost Pages Allen & Unwin
Miles Franklin Award[3] Josephine Wilson Extinctions UWA Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[4] Fiction Their Brilliant Careers Black Inc
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] Fiction Heather Rose Allen & Unwin
Queensland Literary Awards[6] Fiction Melissa Ashley The Birdman’s Wife Affirm Press
Stella Prize[7] Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love Allen & Unwin
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[8] Fiction Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a Dog Scribe

Children and Young Adult[]

National[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[9] Older Readers Claire Zorn One Would Think the Deep UQP
Younger Readers Trace Balla Rockhopping Allen & Unwin
Picture Book Bob Graham Home in the Rain Walker Books
Early Childhood Johanna Bell, illus. Dion Beasley Go Home, Cheeky Animals! Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] Children's Leanne Hall Iris and the Tiger Text Publishing
Young People's James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe One Thousand Hills Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[8] Young Adult Fiction Randa Abdel-Fattah When Michael Met Mina

Crime and Mystery[]

International[]

Award Author Title Publisher
CWA Gold Dagger Award[10] Jane Harper The Dry

National[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[11] Novel Jane Harper The Dry
Ned Kelly Award[12] Novel Adrian McKinty Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly Seventh Street Books
First novel Jane Harper The Dry

Science Fiction[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Aurealis Award[13] Sf Novel Jane Rawson From the Wreck Transit Lounge
Sf Short Story Garth Nix "Conversations with an Armoury" Solaris (Infinity Wars)
Fantasy Novel Jay Kristoff Godsgrave HarperCollins Publishers
Fantasy Short Story "The Curse is Come Upon Me, Cried" Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories (self-published)
Horror Novel Lois Murphy Soon Transit Lounge
Horror Short Story J Ashley-Smith "Old Growth" IFWG Publishing Australia (SQ Mag 31)
Young Adult Novel Cally Black In the Dark Spaces
Young Adult Short Story "Girl Reporter" Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers)
Ditmar Award[14] Novel Kaaron Warren The Grief Hole IWFG Publishing Australia
Best Novella or Novelette "Did We Break the End of the World?" Defying Doomsday (Twelfth Planet Press)
Best Short Story Cat Sparks "No Fat Chicks" In Your Face (TableCroft Publishing)

Non-Fiction[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
National Biography Award[15] Biography Tom D C Roberts Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty UQP
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] Non-Fiction Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead Black Inc
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[16] Australian History Mark McKenna From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories Melbourne University Publishing
Community and Regional History Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick and Anne Clarke Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia’s Immigrant Past Arbon Publishing
General History Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt and Dean Aszkielowicz Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice after the Second World War Columbia University Press
Queensland Literary Awards[6] Non-Fiction Saltwater University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[8] Non-fiction Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru NewSouth Publishing

Poetry[]

Award Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] Peter Boyle Ghostspeaking
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[8] Maxine Beneba Clarke Carrying the World Hachette Australia

Drama[]

Award Category Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] Script The Code, Series 2, Episode 4 Playmaker
Patrick White Playwrights' Award Award Kim Ho Mirror's Edge Sydney Theatre Company
Fellowship Sue Smith

Deaths[]

  • 12 January – Jill Roe, historian, academic and author (born 1940)
  • 10 March – Bill Leak, editorial and political cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist (born 1956)
  • 9 April – John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist (born 1948)
  • 22 April – Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor (born 1963)
  • 2 May – Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter (born 1961)
  • 3 May – Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer (born 1948)
  • 26 June – Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer (born 1948)
  • 27 June – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician (born 1941)
  • 2 July – Fay Zwicky, poet, short-story writer, critic and academic best known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish, about her identity as a Jewish writer (born 1933)
  • 3 August – Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer (born 1931)
  • 7 November – Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic (born 1932)
  • 1 December – Ken Inglis, historian (born 1929)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tony Birch wins 2017 Patrick White Award". Books + Publishing. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Marija Peričić's The Lost Pages wins the 2017 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  3. ^ Brooks, Lee (7 September 2017). "Miles Franklin Literary Prize winner Josephine Wilson claims prestigious award for Extinctions". ABC News. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Winners and Shortlist". Department of Communications and the Arts. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Winners announced for 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Awards" (PDF). State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Queensland Literary Awards 2017 winners announced". Books & Publishing. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  7. ^ "The 2017 Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Book of the Year - Winners 2017". The Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  10. ^ "'The Dry' wins CWA Gold Dagger". Books + Publishing. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  11. ^ "'The Dry' wins best novel at 2017 Davitt Awards". Books + Publishing. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Announcing the 2017 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers Association. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  13. ^ "2017 Aurealis Awards Winners". Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  14. ^ "Ditmar Awards 2017 winners announced". Books + Publishing. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  15. ^ Romei, Stephen (1 August 2017). "Keith Murdoch biography nets award for Tom DC Roberts". The Australian. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Winners of the 2017 NSW Premier's History Awards announced". Books + Publishing. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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