2017 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017.
Literary fiction
- Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home[1]
- Steven Carroll – A New England Affair
- Felicity Castagna – No More Boats[2]
- J. M. Coetzee – The Schooldays of Jesus
- Michelle de Kretser – The Life to Come
- Robert Drewe – Whipbird[3]
- Richard Flanagan – First Person[4]
- Eva Hornung – The Last Garden[5]
- Sofie Laguna – The Choke
- Alex Miller – The Passage of Love
- Gerald Murnane – Border Districts
- Bram Presser – The Book of Dirt
- Mirandi Riwoe – The Fish Girl
- Kim Scott – Taboo[6]
- Jock Serong – On the Java Ridge
Short story collections
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Judith Clarke – My Lovely Frankie[7]
- Zana Fraillon – The Ones That Disappeared [8]
- Morris Gleitzman – Maybe[9]
- Andy Griffiths
- Jessica Townsend – Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Crime
- Sarah Bailey — The Dark Lake[12]
- Alan Carter — Marlborough Man[13]
- Peter Corris — Win, Lose or Draw
- Garry Disher — Under the Cold Bright Lights[14]
- Sulari Gentill — Crossing the Lines
- Anna George — The Lone Child[15]
- Jane Harper – Force of Nature
- Wendy James – The Golden Child[16]
- Adrian McKinty — Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
- Michael Robotham — The Secrets She Keeps[17]
- Iain Ryan — The Student[18]
- Sarah Schmidt — See What I Have Done[19]
- Ann Turner — Out of the Ice[20]
- Emma Viskic – And Fire Came Down
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fiction
- Claire G. Coleman – Terra Nullius
- Thoraiya Dyer – Crossroads of Canopy
- Greg Egan
- Dichronauts
- "Uncanny Valley"[21]
- Ian Irvine – The Fatal Gate[22]
- Kris Kneen – An Uncertain Grace
- Catherine McKinnon – Storyland[23]
- Jane Rawson – From the Wreck
- Angela Slatter – Corpselight[24]
- Cat Sparks – Lotus Blue[25]
Poetry
- Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry[26]
- Bella Li – Argosy[27]
- Jennifer Maiden – The Metronome[28]
- Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real[29]
- Fiona Wright – Domestic Interior[30]
Drama
Biographies
- Bernadette Brennan – A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
- Judith Brett — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin[31]
- Brentley Frazer – Scoundrel Days: A Memoir
- Sarah Krasnostein – The Trauma Cleaner
Non-fiction
- Peter FitzSimons – Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers[32]
- Kate Grenville – The Case Against Fragrance[33]
- John Safran – Depends What You Mean by Extremist
- Alexis Wright – Tracker[34]
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[35] | Tony Birch |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[36] | Zoe Morrison | Music and Freedom | Random House |
| Colin Roderick Award[37] | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | UWA Publishing |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[38] | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[39] | Not awarded | ||
| Stella Prize[40] | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin |
| Victorian Prize for Literature[41] | Leah Purcell | The Drover's Wife | Currency Press |
Fiction
National
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[42] | Not awarded | ||
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[43] | Marija Peričić | The Lost Pages | Allen & Unwin |
| Barbara Jefferis Award[44] | Not awarded | ||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[38] | Dominic Smith | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos | Sarah Crichton Books |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[38] | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan |
| Miles Franklin Award[45] | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | UWA Publishing |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[46] | Ryan O'Neill | Their Brilliant Careers | Black Inc |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[47] | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin |
| Queensland Literary Awards[48] | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman’s Wife | Affirm Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[41] | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Scribe |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[49] | Not awarded | ||
| Voss Literary Prize[50] | Mark O'Flynn | The Last Days of Ava Langdon | University of Queensland Press |
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[51] | 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[38] | Children's | Jeannie Baker | Circle | Walker Books |
| Young Adult | Cath Crowley | Words in Deep Blue | Pan MacMillan | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[47] | 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[41] | Young Adult Fiction | Randa Abdel-Fattah | When Michael Met Mina | Pan Australia |
Crime and Mystery
International
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| CWA Gold Dagger Award[52] | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan Publishers |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[53] | 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[54] | 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
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award[55] | 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[56] | 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
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[42] | Not awarded | ||
| Anne Elder Award[57] | Berndt Sellheim | Awake at the Wheel | Vagabond Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[58] | Aden Rolfe | False Nostalgia | Giramondo Publishing |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[46] | Anthony Lawrence | Headwaters | Pitt Street Poetry |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[47] | Peter Boyle | Ghostspeaking | Vagabond Press |
| Queensland Literary Awards[48] | Antigone Kefala | Fragments | Giramondo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[41] | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Carrying the World | Hachette Australia |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[49] | Not awarded | ||
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[47] | Script | Shirley Birse | The Code, Series 2, Episode 4 | Playmaker |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[59] | Award | Kim Ho | Mirror's Edge | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Fellowship | Sue Smith |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[42] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[38] | Non-Fiction | Helen Garner | Everywhere I Look | Text Publishing |
| National Biography Award[60] | Biography | Tom D C Roberts | Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty | UQP |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[47] | Non-Fiction | Thornton McCamish | Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead | Black Inc |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[61] | 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[48] | Non-Fiction | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | University of Queensland Press |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[41] | Non-fiction | Madeline Gleeson | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | NewSouth Publishing |
