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- Major publications Literary fiction Children's and Young Adult fiction Crime Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Biographies Non-fiction
- Awards and honours Lifetime achievement Fiction National Children and Young Adult National Crime and Mystery International National Science Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Drama
- Deaths
- See also
- References
{{for|an overview of world literature|2017 in literature}}{{see also|2016 in Australian literature|2017 in Australia|2018 in literature}}{{Use Australian English|date=April 2018}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}{{Year nav topic5|2017|literature|poetry}}This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017. Major publications{{Expand list|date=April 2018}}Literary fiction- Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home
- J. M. Coetzee – The Schooldays of Jesus
- Michelle de Kretser — Life to Come
- Robert Drewe — Whipbird
- Richard Flanagan – First Person
- Sofie Laguna — The Choke
- Bram Presser — The Book of Dirt
- Kim Scott — Taboo
Children's and Young Adult fiction- Morris Gleitzman – Maybe (sequel to Once, Then, Now, After, Soon)
- Andy Griffiths – The Tree House Fun Book 2 and The 91-Storey Treehouse
Crime- Sulari Gentill — Crossing the Lines
- Jane Harper – Force of Nature
- Michael Robotham — The Secrets She Keeps
Science Fiction and FantasyPoetry- Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry
- Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real
- Fiona Wright – Domestic Interiors
Biographies- Judith Brett — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Non-fiction- Peter FitzSimons – Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- Kate Grenville – The Case Against Fragrance
Awards and honoursNote: these awards were presented in the year in question. Lifetime achievement| Award | Author | | Patrick White Award[1] | Tony Birch | |
FictionNational| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | | The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[2] | Marija Peričić | The Lost Pages | Allen & Unwin | | Miles Franklin Award[3] | Josephine Wilson | Extinctions | UWA Publishing | | Prime Minister's Literary Awards[4] | Fiction | Ryan O'Neill | Their Brilliant Careers | Black Inc | | New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] | Fiction | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin | | Queensland Literary Awards[6] | Fiction | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman’s Wife | Affirm Press | | Stella Prize[7] | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Allen & Unwin | | Victorian Premier's Literary Award[8] | Fiction | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Scribe | |
Children and Young AdultNational| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | | Children's Book of the Year Award[9] | 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 | | New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] | 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[8] | Young Adult Fiction | Randa Abdel-Fattah | When Michael Met Mina | Pan Australia | |
Crime and MysteryInternational| Award | Author | Title | Publisher | | CWA Gold Dagger Award[10] | Jane Harper | The Dry | Pan Australia | |
National| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | | Davitt Award[11] | Novel | Jane Harper | The Dry | Pan Australia | | Ned Kelly Award[12] | Novel | Adrian McKinty | Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly | Seventh Street Books | | First novel | Jane Harper | The Dry | Pan Australia | |
Science Fiction| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | | Aurealis Award[13] | 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 | Tansey 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 | Tansey Rayner Roberts | "Girl Reporter" | Girl Reporter (Book Smugglers) | | Ditmar Award[14] | Novel | Kaaron Warren | The Grief Hole | IWFG Publishing Australia | | Best Novella or Novelette | Tansey Rayner Roberts | "Did We Break the End of the World?" | Defying Doomsday (Planet Press) | | Best Short Story | Cat Sparks | "No Fat Chicks" | In Your Face (TableCroft Publishing) | |
Non-Fiction| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | | National Biography Award[15] | Biography | Tom D C Roberts | Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty | UQP | | New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] | Non-Fiction | Thornton McCamish | Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead | Black Inc | | New South Wales Premier's History Awards[16] | 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[6] | Non-Fiction | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | University of Queensland Press | | Victorian Premier's Literary Award[8] | Non-fiction | Madeline Gleeson | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | NewSouth Publishing | |
Poetry| Award | Author | Title | Publisher | | New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] | Peter Boyle | Ghostspeaking | Vagabond Press | | Victorian Premier's Literary Award[8] | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Carrying the World | Hachette Australia | |
Drama| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | | New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[5] | 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 |
Deaths- 12 Jan 2017 – Jill Roe, historian, academic and author (born 10 November 1940)
- 10 March 2017 – Bill Leak, editorial and political cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist (born 9 January 1956)
- 9 April 2017 – John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist (born 29 July 1948)
- 22 April 2017 Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor (born 12 October 1963)
- 2 May 2017 – Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter (born 29 October 1961)
- 3 May 2017 – Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer (born 22 March 1948)
- 27 June 2017 – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician (born 11 August 1941)
- 2 July 2017 – Fay Zwicky, poet, short-story writer, critic and academic best known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish, about her identity as a Jewish writer (born 4 July 1933)
- 3 August 2017 – Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer (born 3 September 1931)
- 7 November 2017 – Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic (born 12 November 1932)
- 1 December 2017 – Ken Inglis, historian (born 7 October 1929)
See also- Literature
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of Australian literary awards
References1. ^{{cite news|title=Tony Birch wins 2017 Patrick White Award|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/11/16/98526/tony-birch-wins-2017-patrick-white-award/|accessdate=8 May 2018|publisher=Books + Publishing|date=16 November 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Marija Peričić's The Lost Pages wins the 2017 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award|url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/news/1358-marija-pericic-the-lost-pages-2017-vogels-award|website=Allen & Unwin|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
3. ^{{cite news|last1=Brooks|first1=Lee|title=Miles Franklin Literary Prize winner Josephine Wilson claims prestigious award for Extinctions|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-07/miles-franklin-literary-prize-claimed-by-josephine-wilson/8883328|accessdate=8 May 2018|publisher=ABC News|date=7 September 2017}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Winners and Shortlist|url=https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/current-awards|website=Department of Communications and the Arts|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|title=Winners announced for 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards|url=http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/pla2017winners_mr220517.pdf|website=State Library of New South Wales|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
6. ^1 {{cite news|title=Queensland Literary Awards 2017 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/10/05/96584/queensland-literary-awards-2017-winners-announced/|accessdate=8 May 2018|publisher=Books & Publishing|date=5 October 2017}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=The 2017 Stella Prize|url=http://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2017-prize/|website=The Stella Prize|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
8. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017|url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2017|website=The Wheeler Centre|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Book of the Year - Winners 2017|url=https://cbca.org.au/winners-2017|website=The Children's Book Council of Austrlia|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
10. ^{{cite news|title=‘The Dry’ wins CWA Gold Dagger|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/10/27/97725/the-dry-wins-cwa-gold-dagger/|accessdate=8 May 2018|publisher=Books + Publishing|date=27 October 2017}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=‘The Dry’ wins best novel at 2017 Davitt Awards|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/08/28/94954/the-dry-wins-best-novel-at-2017-davitt-awards/|accessdate=8 May 2018|publisher=Books + Publishing|date=28 August 2017}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=Announcing the 2017 Ned Kelly Award Winners|url=https://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/announcing-2017-ned-kelly-award-winners|website=Australian Crime Writers Association|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
13. ^{{cite web|title=2017 Aurealis Awards Winners|url=https://aurealisawards.org/2018/03/31/757/|website=Aurealis Awards|accessdate=8 May 2018}}
14. ^{{cite news|title=Ditmar Awards 2017 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/06/13/91709/ditmar-awards-2017-winners-announced/|accessdate=8 May 2018|publisher=Books + Publishing|date=13 June 2017}}
15. ^{{cite news|last1=Romei|first1=Stephen|title=Keith Murdoch biography nets award for Tom DC Roberts|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/keith-murdoch-biography-nets-award-for-tom-dc-roberts/news-story/2f9c727822bddd708d3beaaf9c19b0f5|accessdate=16 August 2017|publisher=The Australian|date=1 August 2017}}
16. ^{{cite news|title=Winners of the 2017 NSW Premier’s History Awards announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2017/09/04/95249/winners-of-the-2017-nsw-premiers-history-awards-announced/|accessdate=8 May 2018|publisher=Books + Publishing}}
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