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2023 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023.

Events edit

  • July: Publisher Hachette Australia withdraws from publication the book titled Special Operations Group by Christophe Glasl after Victoria Police expressed concerns about the accuracy of the book[1]
  • December: Yumna Kassab is announced as inaugural Parramatta Laureate of Literature for 2024[2]

Major publications edit

Literary fiction edit

Short story collections edit

Non-Fiction edit

Crime and mystery edit

Science fiction and fantasy edit

Poetry edit

Awards and honours edit

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

Lifetime achievement edit

Award Author
Patrick White Award[41] Alex Skovron

Literary edit

Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year[42] Robbie Arnott Limberlost Text Publishing
ALS Gold Medal[43] Debra Dank We Come With This Place Echo Publishing
Colin Roderick Award[44] Sarah Holland-Batt The Jaguar University of Queensland Press
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[45] Debra Dank We Come With This Place Echo Publishing
Stella Prize[46] Sarah Holland-Batt The Jaguar University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[47] Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Giramondo Publishing

Fiction edit

Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[48] Not awarded
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[49] Anna McGahan Immaculate Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[50] Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[51] Geraldine Brooks Horse Viking Books
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[51] Tracey Lien All That's Left Unsaid HQ Fiction
Miles Franklin Award[52] Shankari Chandran Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens Ultimo Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[53] Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Giramondo
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[54] Katerina GIbson Women I Know Scribner
Queensland Literary Awards[55] Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Giramondo
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[47] Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Giramondo

Children and Young Adult edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[56] Older Readers Tom Taylor Neverlanders Penguin Random House
Younger Readers Craig Silvey Runt Allen & Unwin
Picture Book Zeno Sworder My Strange Shrinking Parents Thames & Hudson
Early Childhood Vikki Conley, illus. Max Hamilton Where the Lyrebird Lives Windy Hollow
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Jess McGeachin DEEP: Delve into hidden words Welbeck Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[53] Children's Jasmine Seymour Open Your Heart to Country Magabala Books
Young Adult Sarah Winifred Searle The Greatest Thing Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[54] Children's Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas The First Scientists Hardie Grant
Young People's Lystra Rose The Upwelling Hachette
Queensland Literary Awards[55] Children's Katrina Nannestad Waiting for the Storks ABC Books
Young Adult Biffy James Completely Normal (and Other Lies) Hardie Grant
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[47] Young Adult Fiction Kate Murray We Who Hunt the Hollow Hardie Grant

Crime and Mystery edit

National edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[57] Novel Tracey Lien All That’s Left Unsaid HQ Fiction
Young adult novel Fleur Ferris Seven Days Puffin
Children's novel Charlie Archbold The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-Bottomed Boat Text Publishing
Non-fiction Megan Norris Out of the Ashes Simon and Schuster Australia
Debut Hayley Scrivenor Dirt Town Pan Macmillan
Readers' choice Vikki Petraitis The Unbelieved Allen & Unwin
Ned Kelly Award[58] Novel Jane Harper Exiles Pan Macmillan
First novel Shelley Burr Wake Hachette Australia
True crime Sandi Logan Betrayed Hachette Australia

Non-Fiction edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
National Biography Award[59] Biography Ann-Marie Priest My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood La Trobe University Press / Black Inc.
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[53] Non-Fiction Sam Vincent My Father and Other Animals Black Inc.
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[51] Non-Fiction Richard Fidler The Book of Roads And Kingdoms ABC Books
Illustrated Non-Fiction Damien Coulthard and Rebecca Sullivan First Nations Food Companion Murdoch Books
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[54] Non-Fiction Debra Dank We Come With This Place Echo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[60] Australian History Alan Atkinson Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm NewSouth
Community and Regional History Ian Hodges He Belonged to Wagga: The Great War, the AIF and returned soldiers in an Australian country town ASP
General History Michael Laffan Under Empire: Muslim lives and loyalties across the Indian Ocean world, 1775–1945 Columbia University
Queensland Literary Awards[55] Non-Fiction Debra Dank We Come with This Place Echo Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[47] Non-Fiction Eda Gunaydin Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance NewSouth

Poetry edit

Award Author Title Publisher
Anne Elder Award[61](joint winners) Harry Reid Leave Me Alone Cordite
Theodore Ell Beginning In Sight RWP
Mary Gilmore Award[62] Harry Reid Leave Me Alone Cordite
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[53] Gavin Yuan Gao At the Altar of Touch UQP
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[54] Kim Cheng Boey The Singer and Other Poems Cordite
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[55] Lionel Fogarty Harvest Lingo Giramondo
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Gavin Yuan Gao At the Altar of Touch UQP

Drama edit

Award Category Author Title Publisher
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[54] Script Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero Blaze Causeway Films
Play Dylan Van Den Berg Whitefella Yella Tree Griffin Theatre Company & Currency Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[47] John Harvey The Return Malthouse Theatre

Deaths edit

See also edit

References edit

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