2023 in Australian literature

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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
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[48] Anna McGahan Immaculate Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award[49] Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[50] Geraldine Brooks Horse Viking Books
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[50] Tracey Lien All That's Left Unsaid HQ Fiction
Miles Franklin Award[51] Shankari Chandran Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens Ultimo Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[52] Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Giramondo
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] Katerina GIbson Women I Know Scribner
Queensland Literary Awards[54] 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[55] 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[52] 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[53] Children's Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas The First Scientists Hardie Grant
Young People's Lystra Rose The Upwelling Hachette
Queensland Literary Awards[54] 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[56] 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[57] 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[58] 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[52] Non-Fiction Sam Vincent My Father and Other Animals Black Inc.
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[50] 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[53] Non-Fiction Debra Dank We Come With This Place Echo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[59] 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[54] 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[60](joint winners) Harry Reid Leave Me Alone Cordite
Theodore Ell Beginning In Sight RWP
Mary Gilmore Award[61] Harry Reid Leave Me Alone Cordite
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[52] Gavin Yuan Gao At the Altar of Touch UQP
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[53] Kim Cheng Boey The Singer and Other Poems Cordite
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[54] 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[53] 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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