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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 [ ]
Fiction [ ]
National [ ]
Children and Young Adult [ ]
National [ ]
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 [ ]
Drama [ ]
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 [ ]
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