2017 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017.
Major publications[edit]
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Literary fiction[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Sulari Gentill — Crossing the Lines
- Jane Harper – Force of Nature
- Michael Robotham — The Secrets She Keeps
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fiction[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry
- Bella Li – Argosy
- Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real
- Fiona Wright – Domestic Interiors
Drama[edit]
Biographies[edit]
- Judith Brett — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Non-fiction[edit]
- Peter FitzSimons – Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- Kate Grenville – The Case Against Fragrance
- John Safran – Depends What You Mean by Extremist
- Alexis Wright – Tracker
Awards and honours[edit]
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement[edit]
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[1] | Tony Birch |
Literary[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[2] | Zoe Morrison | Music and Freedom | Random House |
| Colin Roderick Award[3] | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | UWA Publishing |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[4] | Not awarded | ||
| Stella Prize[5] | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin |
| Victorian Prize for Literature[6] | Leah Purcell | The Drover's Wife | Currency Press |
Fiction[edit]
National[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[7] | Marija Peričić | The Lost Pages | Allen & Unwin |
| Barbara Jefferis Award[8] | Not awarded | ||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[9] | Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos | Sarah Crichton Books |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[9] | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan |
| Miles Franklin Award[10] | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | UWA Publishing |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[11] | Ryan O'Neill | Their Brilliant Careers | Black Inc |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin |
| Queensland Literary Awards[13] | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman’s Wife | Affirm Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[14] | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Scribe |
Children and Young Adult[edit]
National[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[15] | 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[12] | 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[14] | Young Adult Fiction | Randa Abdel-Fattah | When Michael Met Mina | Pan Australia |
Crime and Mystery[edit]
International[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| CWA Gold Dagger Award[16] | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan Publishers |
National[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[17] | 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[18] | 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 fiction[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award[19] | 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[20] | 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) |
Non-Fiction[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Biography Award[21] | Biography | Tom D C Roberts | Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty | UQP |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[9] | Non-Fiction | Helen Garner | Everywhere I Look | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Non-Fiction | Thornton McCamish | Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead | Black Inc |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[22] | 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[13] | Non-Fiction | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[14] | Non-fiction | Madeline Gleeson | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | NewSouth Publishing |
Poetry[edit]
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award[23] | Berndt Sellheim | Awake at the Wheel | Vagabond Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[24] | Aden Rolfe | False Nostalgia | Giramondo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | Peter Boyle | Ghostspeaking | Vagabond Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[14] | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Carrying the World | Hachette Australia |
Drama[edit]
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[12] | 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 |
Deaths[edit]
- 12 January – Jill Roe, historian, academic and author (born 1940)[25]
- 10 March – Bill Leak, editorial and political cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist (born 1956)[26]
- 9 April – John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist (born 1948 in New Zealand)[27]
- 22 April – Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor (born 1963)[28]
- 2 May – Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter (born 1961)[29]
- 3 May – Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer (born 1948 in Wellington, New Zealand)[30]
- 26 June – Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer (born 1948)[31]
- 27 June – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician (born 1941)[32]
- 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)[33]
- 3 August – Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer (born 1931 in London)[34]
- 6 November – Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic (born 1932)[35]
- 1 December – Ken Inglis, historian (born 1929)[36]
- 22 December – Lilith Norman, children's writer and editor (born 1927)[37]
See also[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
- ^ "Tony Birch wins 2017 Patrick White Award". Books + Publishing. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "The 2017 Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ "Marija Peričić's The Lost Pages wins the 2017 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ ""Barbara Jefferis Award"". Australian Society of Authors. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ a b c ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2017"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Brooks, Lee (7 September 2017). "Miles Franklin Literary Prize winner Josephine Wilson claims prestigious award for Extinctions". ABC News. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ ""Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Shortlist and winners: 2021-2008"". Creative Australia. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Queensland Literary Awards 2017 winners announced". Books & Publishing. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Book of the Year - Winners 2017". The Children's Book Council of Australia. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "'The Dry' wins CWA Gold Dagger". Books + Publishing. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "'The Dry' wins best novel at 2017 Davitt Awards". Books + Publishing. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Announcing the 2017 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers Association. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "2017 Aurealis Awards Winners". Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Ditmar Awards 2017 winners announced". Books + Publishing. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ Romei, Stephen (1 August 2017). "Keith Murdoch biography nets award for Tom DC Roberts". The Australian. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ "Winners of the 2017 NSW Premier's History Awards announced". Books + Publishing. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award". Austlit. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "Jill Roe (1940-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Bill Leak (1956-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "John Clarke (1948-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ Williams, Donna (30 April 2017). "Vale Polly Samuel (aka 'Donna Williams') 1963–2017. Polly's pages (aka Donna Williams)". Donna Williams. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Michael Gurr (1961-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Rosie Scott (1948-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Jimmy Chi (1948-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Rae Desmond Jones (1941-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Fay Zwicky (1933-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Jack Wodhams (1931-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Sylvia Lawson (1932-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ Bongiorno, Frank. "Kenneth Stanley (Ken) Inglis (1929-2017)". Obituaries Australia. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Lilith Norman (1927-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
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