2017 in Australian literature

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

Major publications

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Literary fiction

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Children's and Young Adult fiction

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Crime

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Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fiction

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Poetry

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Drama

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Biographies

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Non-fiction

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Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

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Award Author
Patrick White Award[39] Tony Birch

Literary

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Award Author Title Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[40] Zoe Morrison Music and Freedom Random House
Colin Roderick Award[41] Josephine Wilson Extinctions UWA Publishing
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[42] Jane Harper The Dry Macmillan
Nita Kibble Literary Award[43] Not awarded
Stella Prize[44] Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love Allen & Unwin
Victorian Prize for Literature[45] Leah Purcell The Drover's Wife Currency Press

Fiction

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National

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[46] Not awarded
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[47] Marija Peričić The Lost Pages Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[48] Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[42] Dominic Smith The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Sarah Crichton Books
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[42] Jane Harper The Dry Macmillan
Miles Franklin Award[49] Josephine Wilson Extinctions UWA Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[50] Ryan O'Neill Their Brilliant Careers Black Inc
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[51] Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love Allen & Unwin
Queensland Literary Awards[52] Melissa Ashley The Birdman’s Wife Affirm Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[53] Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a Dog Scribe

Children and Young Adult

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National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[54] 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[42] Children's Jeannie Baker Circle Walker Books
Young Adult Cath Crowley Words in Deep Blue Pan MacMillan
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[51] 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[53] Young Adult Fiction Randa Abdel-Fattah When Michael Met Mina Pan Australia

Crime and Mystery

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International

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Award Author Title Publisher
CWA Gold Dagger Award[55] Jane Harper The Dry Macmillan Publishers

National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[56] 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[57] 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 achievement Not awarded

Science fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Aurealis Award[58] 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[59] 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)

Poetry

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[46] Not awarded
Anne Elder Award[60] Berndt Sellheim Awake at the Wheel Vagabond Press
Mary Gilmore Award[61] Aden Rolfe False Nostalgia Giramondo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[51] Peter Boyle Ghostspeaking Vagabond Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[53] Maxine Beneba Clarke Carrying the World Hachette Australia

Drama

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[51] 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-Fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[46] Non-Fiction Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[42] Non-Fiction Helen Garner Everywhere I Look Text Publishing
National Biography Award[62] Biography Tom D C Roberts Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty UQP
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[51] Non-Fiction Thornton McCamish Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead Black Inc
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[63] 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[52] Non-Fiction Cathy McLennan Saltwater University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award[53] Non-fiction Madeline Gleeson Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru NewSouth Publishing

Deaths

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See also

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References

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