1973 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1973.

For an overview of world literature see 1973 in literature.

See also: 1972 in Australian literature, 1973 in Australia, 1974 in Australian literature.

Events

• Patrick White is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first, and so far only, Australian writer to be presented with the award.

Major publications

Books

• Kit Denton – The Breaker : A Novel
• Hammond Innes – Golden Soak
• Morris Lurie – Rappaport's Revenge
• Christina Stead – The Little Hotel
• Morris West – The Salamander
• Patrick White – The Eye of the Storm

Short stories

• Murray Bail – "Zoeliner's Definition"
• Elizabeth Jolley – "Another Holiday for the Prince"
• Frank Moorhouse
  • "The Airport, the Pizzeria, the Motel, the Rented Car, and the Mysteries of Life"
  • The Illegal Relatives
• Fay Zwicky – "Hostages"

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• James Aldridge – A Sporting Proposition
• Mavis Thorpe Clark – Wildfire
• Max Fatchen – The Spirit Wind
• Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumby Whirlwind
• Mary Elwyn Patchett – A Roar of the Lion
• Ivan Southall – Matt and Jo
• Eleanor Spence – Time to Go Home
• Colin Thiele – The Fire in the Stone
• Patricia Wrightson – The Nargun and the Stars

Poetry

Main article: 1973 in poetry

• Rosemary Dobson – Selected Poems
• A. D. Hope
  • "Hay Fever"
  • Selected Poems
• Roger McDonald – "Two Summers in Moravia"
• Peter Porter – Jonah
• Vivian Smith – "The Man Fern Near the Bus Stop"
• Judith Wright – Alice : Poems 1971-72

Drama

• John Power – The Last of the Knucklemen

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal	Francis Webb
Colin Roderick Award	Dorothy Green	Ulysses Bound: Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction	Australian National University Press
Miles Franklin Award	No award

Children and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award	Older Readers	Noreen Shelley, illustrated by Robert Micklewright	Family at The Lookout	Oxford University Press
	Picture Book	No award

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry	Rodney Hall	A Soapbox Omnibus	University of Queensland Press

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1973 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 18 March — Max Barry, novelist
• 26 October — Chloe Hooper, author
• 11 September — Cat Sparks, science fiction writer
• 12 November — Jay Kristoff, fantasy and science fiction writer

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1973 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 20 April – Michael Dransfield, poet (born 1948)
• 23 November – Francis Webb, poet (born 1925)

See also

• 1973 in literature
• 1973 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature