2017 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017.
Major publications
[edit]Literary fiction
[edit]- Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home[1]
- 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[6]
- Alex Miller – The Passage of Love
- Gerald Murnane – Border Districts[7]
- Bram Presser – The Book of Dirt[8]
- Kim Scott – Taboo[9]
Children's and Young Adult fiction
[edit]- Judith Clarke – My Lovely Frankie[10]
- Zana Fraillon – The Ones That Disappeared [11]
- Morris Gleitzman – Maybe[12]
- Andy Griffiths
- Jessica Townsend – Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Crime
[edit]- Sarah Bailey — The Dark Lake[15]
- Alan Carter — Marlborough Man[16]
- Peter Corris — Win, Lose or Draw[17]
- Garry Disher — Under the Cold Bright Lights[18]
- Sulari Gentill — Crossing the Lines
- Anna George — The Lone Child[19]
- Jane Harper – Force of Nature
- Wendy James – The Golden Child[20]
- Michael Robotham — The Secrets She Keeps[21]
- Iain Ryan — The Student[22]
- Sarah Schmidt — See What I Have Done[23]
- Ann Turner — Out of the Ice[24]
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fiction
[edit]- Claire G. Coleman – Terra Nullius
- Thoraiya Dyer – Crossroads of Canopy
- Greg Egan - "Uncanny Valley"[25]
- Ian Irvine – The Fatal Gate[26]
- Catherine McKinnon – Storyland[27]
- Jane Rawson – From the Wreck
- Angela Slatter – Corpselight[28]
- Cat Sparks – Lotus Blue[29]
Poetry
[edit]- Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry[30]
- Bella Li – Argosy[31]
- Jennifer Maiden – The Metronome[32]
- Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real[33]
- Fiona Wright – Domestic Interior[34]
Drama
[edit]Biographies
[edit]- Judith Brett — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin[35]
- Brentley Frazer – Scoundrel Days: A Memoir
Non-fiction
[edit]- Peter FitzSimons – Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers[36]
- Kate Grenville – The Case Against Fragrance[37]
- John Safran – Depends What You Mean by Extremist
- Alexis Wright – Tracker[38]
Awards and honours
[edit]Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
[edit]| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[39] | Tony Birch |
Literary
[edit]| 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
[edit]National
[edit]| 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
[edit]National
[edit]| 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
[edit]International
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| CWA Gold Dagger Award[55] | Jane Harper | The Dry | Macmillan Publishers |
National
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]- 12 January – Jill Roe, historian, academic and author (born 1940)[64]
- 10 March – Bill Leak, editorial and political cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist (born 1956)[65]
- 9 April – John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist (born 1948 in New Zealand)[66]
- 22 April – Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor (born 1963)[67]
- 2 May – Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter (born 1961)[68]
- 3 May – Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer (born 1948 in Wellington, New Zealand)[69]
- 26 June – Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer (born 1948)[70]
- 27 June – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician (born 1941)[71]
- 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)[72]
- 3 August – Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer (born 1931 in London)[73]
- 6 November – Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic (born 1932)[74]
- 1 December – Ken Inglis, historian (born 1929)[75]
- 22 December – Lilith Norman, children's writer and editor (born 1927)[76]
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]- ^ "A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Out of the Ice by Ann Turner". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ ""Uncanny Valley" by Greg Egan". ISFDB. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Fatal Gate by Ian Irvine". ISFDB. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Storyland by Catherine McKinnon". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Corpselight by Angela Slatter". ISFDB. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks". ISFDB. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "I Love Poetry by Michael Farrell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Argosy by Bella Li". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Metronome by Jennifer Maiden". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "These Things Are Real by Alan Wearne". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Domestic Interior by Fiona Wright". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2017"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 24 May 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.
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- ^ "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.
- ^ Brooks, Lee (7 September 2017). "Miles Franklin Literary Prize winner Josephine Wilson claims prestigious award for Extinctions". ABC News. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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- ^ "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. 31 March 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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- ^ "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.
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- ^ "Lilith Norman (1927-2017)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
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