Literature-related events in Australia during the: year of 2017
This article presents a list of theββhistorical events. And publications of Australian literature during 2017.
Major publicationsβ»
Literary fictionβ»
- Peter Carey β A Long Way from Home
- Felicity Castagna β No More Boats
- J. M. Coetzee β The Schooldays of Jesus
- Michelle de Kretser β The Lifeββto Come
- Robert Drewe β Whipbird
- Richard Flanagan β First Person
- Eva Hornung β The Last Garden
- Sofie Laguna β The Choke
- Alex Miller β The Passage of Love
- Gerald Murnane β Border Districts
- Bram Presser β The Book of Dirt
- Kim Scott β Taboo
Children's and Young Adult fictionβ»
- Judith Clarke β My Lovely Frankie
- Zana Fraillon β The Ones That Disappeared
- Morris Gleitzman β Maybe
- Andy Griffiths
- The Tree House Fun Book 2
- The 91-Storey Treehouse
- Jessica Townsend β Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Crimeβ»
- Sarah Bailey β The Dark Lake
- Alan Carter β Marlborough Man
- Peter Corris β Win, Lose/Draw
- Garry Disher β Under the Cold Bright Lights
- Sulari Gentill β Crossing the Lines
- Anna George β The Lone Child
- Jane Harper β Force of Nature
- Wendy James β The Golden Child
- Michael Robotham β The Secrets She Keeps
- Iain Ryan β The Student
- Sarah Schmidt β See What I Have Done
- Ann Turner β Out of the Ice
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fictionβ»
- Claire G. Coleman β Terra Nullius
- Thoraiya Dyer β Crossroads of Canopy
- Greg Egan - "Uncanny Valley"
- Ian Irvine β The Fatal Gate
- Catherine McKinnon β Storyland
- Jane Rawson β From the Wreck
- Angela Slatter β Corpselight
- Cat Sparks β Lotus Blue
Poetryβ»
- Michael Farrell β I Love Poetry
- Bella Li β Argosy
- Jennifer Maiden β The Metronome
- Alan Wearne β These Things Are Real
- Fiona Wright β Domestic Interior
Dramaβ»
Biographiesβ»
- Judith Brett β The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Non-fictionβ»
- Peter FitzSimons β Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- Kate Grenville β The Case Against Fragrance
- John Safran β Depends What You Mean by Extremist
- Alexis Wright β Tracker
Awards and honoursβ»
Note: these awards were presented in the "year in question."
Lifetime achievementβ»
Award | Author |
---|---|
Patrick White Award | Tony Birch |
Literaryβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
ALS Gold Medal | Zoe Morrison | Music and Freedom | Random House |
Colin Roderick Award | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | UWA Publishing |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan |
Nita Kibble Literary Award | Not awarded | ||
Stella Prize | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin |
Victorian Prize for Literature | Leah Purcell | The Drover's Wife | Currency Press |
Fictionβ»
Nationalβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Not awarded | ||
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Marija PeriΔiΔ | The Lost Pages | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year β Fiction | Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos | Sarah Crichton Books |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year β Debut Fiction | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan |
Miles Franklin Award | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | UWA Publishing |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards | Ryan O'Neill | Their Brilliant Careers | Black Inc |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin |
Queensland Literary Awards | Melissa Ashley | The Birdmanβs Wife | Affirm Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Scribe |
Children and Young Adultβ»
Nationalβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book of the Year Award | 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 | |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Children's | Jeannie Baker | Circle | Walker Books |
Young Adult | Cath Crowley | Words in Deep Blue | Pan MacMillan | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Leanne Hall | Iris and the Tiger | Text Publishing |
Young People's | James Roy and NoΓ«l Zihabamwe | One Thousand Hills | Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | Randa Abdel-Fattah | When Michael Met Mina | Pan Australia |
Crime and Mysteryβ»
Internationalβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
CWA Gold Dagger Award | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan Publishers |
Nationalβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award | Novel | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan Publishers |
Young adult novel | Shivaun Plozza | Frankie | Penguin | |
Children's novel | Judith Rossell | Wormwood Mire: A Stella Montgomery Intrigue | HarperCollins | |
True crime | Megan Norris | Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill | Big Sky Publishing | |
Debut novel | Cath Ferla | Ghost Girls | Echo Publishing | |
Readers' choice | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan Publishers | |
Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Adrian McKinty | Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly | Seventh Street Books |
First novel | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan Publishers | |
True crime | Duncan McNab | Getting Away With Murder | Random House | |
Brendan James Murray | The Drowned Man | Echo Publishing | ||
Lifetime acheivement | Not awarded |
Science fictionβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aurealis Award | 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 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "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 | Hardie Grant Egmont | |
Young Adult Short Story | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Girl Reporter" | Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers) | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Kaaron Warren | The Grief Hole | IWFG Publishing Australia |
Best Novella or Novelette | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "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) |
Poetryβ»
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award | Berndt Sellheim | Awake at the Wheel | Vagabond Press |
Mary Gilmore Award | Aden Rolfe | False Nostalgia | Giramondo Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Peter Boyle | Ghostspeaking | Vagabond Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Carrying the World | Hachette Australia |
Dramaβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Script | Shirley Birse | The Code, Series 2, Episode 4 | Playmaker |
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Kim Ho | Mirror's Edge | Sydney Theatre Company |
Fellowship | Sue Smith |
Non-Fictionβ»
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | Helen Garner | Everywhere I Look | Text Publishing |
National Biography Award | Biography | Tom D C Roberts | Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty | UQP |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Thornton McCamish | Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead | Black Inc |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Mark McKenna | From the Edge: Australiaβs Lost Histories | Melbourne University Publishing |
Community and Regional History | Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick and Anne Clarke | Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australiaβs 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 | Non-Fiction | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Madeline Gleeson | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | NewSouth Publishing |
Deathsβ»
- 12 January β Jill Roe, historian, academic and author (born 1940)
- 10 March β Bill Leak, editorial and "political cartoonist," caricaturist and portraitist (born 1956)
- 9 April β John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist (born 1948 in New Zealand)
- 22 April β Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor (born 1963)
- 2 May β Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter (born 1961)
- 3 May β Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer (born 1948 in Wellington, New Zealand)
- 26 June β Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer (born 1948)
- 27 June β Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician (born 1941)
- 2 July β 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 β Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer (born 1931 in London)
- 6 November β Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic (born 1932)
- 1 December β Ken Inglis, historian (born 1929)
- 22 December β Lilith Norman, children's writer and editor (born 1927)
See alsoβ»
- 2017 in Australia
- 2017 in literature
- 2017 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
- List of Australian literary awards
Referencesβ»
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- ^ "No More Boats by Felicity Castagna". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Whipbird by Robert Drewe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "First Person by Richard Flanagan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Last Garden by Eva Hornung". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Choke by Sofia Laguna". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Border Districts by Gerald Murnane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Taboo by Kim Scott". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "My Lovely Frankie by Judith Clarke". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Maybe by Morris Gleitzman". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Tree House Fun Book 2 by Andy Griffiths". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The 91-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Marlborough Man by Alan Carter". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Win, Lose or Draw by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Under the Cold Bright Lights by Garry Disher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Lone Child by Anna George". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Golden Child by Wendy James". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Student by Iain Ryan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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- ^ "The Fatal Gate by Ian Irvine". ISFDB. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Storyland by Catherine McKinnon". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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- ^ "The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Tracker by Alexis Wright". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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