2023 in Australian literature

Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2023

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

## Events

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* 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

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### Literary fiction

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* Hossein Asgari – Only Sound Remains[3]
* Tony Birch – Women & Children
* Jen Craig – Wall[4]
* Lauren Aimee Curtis – Strangers in the Port[5]
* Trent Dalton – Lola in the Mirror[6]
* André Dao – Anam
* Gregory Day – The Bell of the World[7]
* Ali Cobby Eckermann – She Is the Earth (verse novel)[8]
* Lexi Freiman – The Book of Ayn
* Madeleine Gray – Green Dot
* Kate Grenville – Restless Dolly Maunder[9]
* John Kinsella – Cellnight: A verse novel[10]
* Melissa Lucashenko – Edenglassie
* Kate Morton – Homecoming[11]
* Angela O'Keeffe – The Sitter
* Mirandi Riwoe – Sunbirds[12]
* Sanya Rushdi – Hospital[13]
* Tracy Sorensen – The Vitals[14]
* Lucy Treloar – Days of Innocence and Wonder[15]
* Christos Tsiolkas – The In-Between[16]
* Pip Williams – The Bookbinder of Jericho
* Charlotte Wood – Stone Yard Devotional
* Alexis Wright – Praiseworthy

### Children's and Young Adult fiction

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* Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes – Welcome to Sex, illustrated by Jenny Latham[17]
* Will Kostakis – We Could Be Something[18]
* Alice Pung – Millie Mak the Maker, illustrated by Sher Rill Ng[19]
* Lili Wilkinson – A Hunger of Thorns[20]
* Dianne Wolfer – Scout and the Rescue Dogs[21]

### Short story collections

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* J. M. Coetzee – The Pole and Other Stories
* Laura Jean McKay – Gunflower[22]
* Graeme Simsion – Creative Differences: And Other Stories[23]

### Crime and mystery

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* Tim Ayliffe – Killer Traitor Spy[24]
* Ashley Kalagian Blunt – Dark Mode[25]
* Shelley Burr – Ripper[26]
* Candice Fox – Fire With Fire[27]
* Megan Goldin – Dark Corners[28]
* Chris Hammer – The Seven[29]
* Amanda Hampson – The Tea Ladies[30]
* Sally Hepworth – Darling Girls
* Fiona McIntosh – Dead Tide[31]
* Benjamin Stevenson – Everyone on this train is a suspect[32]
* Chris Womersley – Ordinary Gods and Monsters[33]

### Science fiction and fantasy

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* Greg Egan
* "Didicosm"
* Scale
* Shelley Parker-Chan – He Who Drowned the World

### Poetry

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* Stuart Barnes – Like to the Lark[34]
* Dan Hogan – Secret Third Thing[35]
* John Kinsella – Harsh Hakea: Collected Poems Volume Two (2005–2014)[36]
* David McCooey – The Book of Falling[37]
* Jennifer Maiden – Golden Bridge: New Poems[38]
* Pi O – The Tour[39]
* Tais Rose Wae – Riverbed Sky Songs[40]
* Grace Yee – Chinese Fish

### Non-Fiction

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* Katie Ariel – The Swift Dark Tide
* Chanel Contos – Consent Laid Bare[41]
* Robyn Davidson – Unfinished Woman[42]
* Marele Day – Reckless[43]
* Martin Flanagan – The Empty Honour Board[44]
* Clementine Ford – I Don't[45]
* Anna Funder – Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life[46]
* Michael Gawenda – My Life as a Jew[47]
* Stan Grant – The Queen is Dead: The Time has Come for a Reckoning[48]
* Susan Johnson – Aphrodite's Breath[49]
* Christine Kenneally – Ghosts of the Orphanage[50]
* Sarah Krasnostein – On Peter Carey[51]
* David Marr – Killing for Country: A Family Story[52]
* Ross McMullin – Life So Full of Promise[53]
* Alex Miller – A Kind of Confession: The Writer's Private World[19]
* Matt Preston – Big Mouth[54]
* Alecia Simmonds – Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law[55]
* Margaret Simons – Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms[56]
* Christine Wallace – Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers[57]

### Drama

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* Nicholas Brown – Sex Magick[58]
* Joanna Murray-Smith – Julia[59]

## 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

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Patrick White Award[60] | Alex Skovron

### Literary

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Award  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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ALS Gold Medal[61] | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing
Colin Roderick Award[62] | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | University of Queensland Press
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[63] | Craig Silvey | Runt | Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[64] | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing
Stella Prize[65] | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[66] | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo Publishing

### Fiction

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Award  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[67] | Not awarded  |  |
The Age Book of the Year[68] | Robbie Arnott | Limberlost | Text Publishing
ARA Historical Novel Prize[69] | Gail Jones | Salonika Burning | Text Publishing
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[70] | Anna McGahan | Immaculate | Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[71] | Not awarded  |  |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[63] | Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Viking Books
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[63] | Tracey Lien  | All That's Left Unsaid | HQ Fiction
Miles Franklin Award[72] | Shankari Chandran | Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens | Ultimo Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[73] | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[74] | Katerina GIbson  | Women I Know | Scribner
Queensland Literary Awards[75] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[66] | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo
Voss Literary Prize[76] | Robbie Arnott | Limberlost | Text Publishing

### Children and Young Adult

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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ARA Historical Novel Prize[69] | Children and Young Adult  | Amelia Mellor  | The Bookseller’s Apprentice | Affirm Press
Children's Book of the Year Award[77] | 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
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[63] | Children's | Craig Silvey | Runt | Allen & Unwin
Young Adult | Holden Shepherd  | The Brink | Text Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[73] | 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[74] | Children's  | Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas | The First Scientists | Hardie Grant
Young People's  | Lystra Rose  | The Upwelling | Hachette
Queensland Literary Awards[75] | 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[66] | Young Adult Fiction  | Kate Murray  | We Who Hunt the Hollow | Hardie Grant

### Crime and Mystery

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#### National

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Davitt Award[78] | 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[79] | Novel  | Jane Harper | Exiles | Pan Macmillan
First novel  | Shelley Burr  | Wake | Hachette Australia
True crime  | Sandi Logan  | Betrayed | Hachette Australia

### Poetry

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Award  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[67] | Not awarded  |  |
Anne Elder Award[80](joint winners)  | Harry Reid  | Leave Me Alone | Cordite
Theodore Ell  | Beginning In Sight | RWP
Mary Gilmore Award[81] | Harry Reid  | Leave Me Alone | Cordite
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[73] | Gavin Yuan Gao  | At the Altar of Touch | UQP
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[74] | Kim Cheng Boey | The Singer and Other Poems | Cordite
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[75] | Lionel Fogarty | Harvest Lingo | Giramondo
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Gavin Yuan Gao  | At the Altar of Touch | UQP

### Drama

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[74] | 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[66] |  | John Harvey  | The Return | Malthouse Theatre

### Non-Fiction

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Award  | Category  | Author  | Title  | Publisher

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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[67] | Non-Fiction  | Not awarded  |
The Age Book of the Year[68] | Non-Fiction  | Kim Mahood | Wandering With Intent | Scribe
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[63] | 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
National Biography Award[82] | 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[73] | Non-Fiction  | Sam Vincent  | My Father and Other Animals | Black Inc.
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[74] | Non-Fiction  | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[83] | 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[75] | Non-Fiction  | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[66] | Non-Fiction  | Eda Gunaydin  | Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance  | NewSouth

## Deaths

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* 21 January – Gabrielle Williams, author of young adult fiction (born 1963)[84]
* 3 February – Portia Robinson, historian (born 1926)[85]
* 19 April – Lee Harding, novelist (born 1937)[86]
* 21 April – John Tranter, poet, publisher and editor (born 1943)[87]
* 22 April – Barry Humphries, comedian, author, actor and satirist (born 1934)[88]
* 2 May – Gabrielle Carey, novelist (born 1959)[89]
* 22 May – Andrew Burke, poet (born 1944)[90]
* 30 June – Ron Pretty, poet (born 1940)[91]
* 6 August – Elizabeth Webby, scholar of Australian literature (born 1942)[92]
* 18 November – Nan Witcomb, poet and radio broadcaster (born 1927/1928)[93]
* 21 November – Dale Spender, feminist writer (born 1943)[94]
* 10 December – Michael Blakemore, actor, writer and theatre director (born 1928)[95]
* 12 December – Shirley Barber, children's author and illustrator (born 1935 in the Channel Islands)[96]
* 30 December – John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker (born 1939) (died in the United Kingdom)[97]

## See also

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* 2023 in Australia
* 2023 in literature
* 2023 in poetry
* List of years in Australian literature
* List of years in literature

## References

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31. ^ "Dead Tide by Fiona McIntosh". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
32. ^ "Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
33. ^ "Ordinary Gods and Monsters by Chris Womersley". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
34. ^ "Like to the Lark by Stuart Barnes". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
35. ^ "Secret Third Thing by Dan Hogan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
36. ^ "Harsh Hakea by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
37. ^ "The Book of Falling by David McCooey". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
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39. ^ "The Tour by Pi O". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
40. ^ "Riverbed Sky Songs by Tais Rose Wae". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
41. ^ "Consent Laid Bare by Chanel Contos". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
42. ^ "Austlit — Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson". Austlit. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
43. ^ "Reckless by Marele Day". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
44. ^ "The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
45. ^ "I Don't by Clementine Ford". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
46. ^ "Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
47. ^ "My Life as a Jew by Michael Gawenda". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
48. ^ "The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
49. ^ "Aphrodite's Breath by Susan Johnson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
50. ^ Kenneally, Christine. "Ghosts of the orphanage : a story of murder, a conspiracy of silence and a search for justice". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
51. ^ "On Peter Carey by Sarah Krasnostein". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
52. ^ "Killing for Country by David Marr". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
53. ^ "Life So Full of Promise by Ross McMullin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
54. ^ "Big Mouth by Matt Preston". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
55. ^ "Courting by Alecia Simmonds". Good Reading. November 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
56. ^ "Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms by Margaret Simons". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
57. ^ "Political Lives by Christine Wallace". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
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