2023 in Australian literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Trent Dalton, Lola in the Mirror
- Gregory Day, The Bell of the World
- Kate Grenville, Restless Dolly Maunder
- John Kinsella, Cellnight: A verse novel
- Melissa Lucashenko, Edenglassie
- Fiona McIntosh, Dead Tide
- Kate Morton, Homecoming
- Mirandi Riwoe, Sunbirds
- Pip Williams, The Bookbinder of Jericho
- Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional
- Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy
Short story collections
- Graeme Simsion, Creative Differences and other stories
- Laura Jean McKay, Gunflower
Non-Fiction
- Robyn Davidson, Unfinished Woman
- Marele Day, Reckless
- Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
- Michael Gawenda, My Life as a Jew
- Stan Grant, The Queen is Dead: The Time has Come for a Reckoning
- Susan Johnson, Aphrodite's Breath
- Sarah Krasnostein, On Peter Carey
- David Marr, Killing for Country: A Family Story
- Margaret Simons, Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms
- Christine Wallace, Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers
Crime
- Candice Fox, Fire With Fire
- Chris Hammer, The Seven
Poetry
- Stuart Barnes, Like to the Lark
- John Kinsella, Harsh Hakea: Collected Poems Volume Two (2005–2014)
- David McCooey, The Book of Falling
- Pi O, The Tour
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Patrick White Award[1] | Alex Skovron |
Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles Franklin Award[2] | Shankari Chandran | Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens | Ultimo Press | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards to be announced December 2023 |
Fiction | |||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[3] | Katerina GIbson | Women I Know | Scribner | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[4] | Fiction | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo |
| Stella Prize[5] | Literature | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | UQP |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[6] | Literature | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo |
| Fiction | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo |
Children and Young Adult
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award[7] | 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 | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[3] | Children's | Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas | The First Scientists | Hardie Grant |
| Young People's | Lystra Rose | The Upwelling | Hachette | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[4] | 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[6] | Young Adult Fiction | Kate Murray | We Who Hunt the Hollow | Hardie Grant |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Biography Award[8] | Biography | Ann-Marie Priest | My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood | La Trobe University Press / Black Inc. |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[3] | Non-Fiction | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[9] | 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[4] | Non-Fiction | Debra Dank | We Come with This Place | Echo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[6] | Non-Fiction | Eda Gunaydin | Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance | NewSouth |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award[10](joint winners) | Harry Reid | Leave Me Alone | Cordite |
| Theodore Ell | Beginning In Sight | RWP | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[3] | Kim Cheng Boey | The Singer and Other Poems | Cordite |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[4] | Lionel Fogarty | Harvest Lingo | Giramondo |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | UQP |
Drama
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[3] | 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[6] | John Harvey | The Return | Malthouse Theatre |
Deaths
- 21 January – Gabrielle Williams, author of young adult fiction (born 1963)[11]
- 3 February – Portia Robinson, historian (born 1926)[12]
- 21 April – John Tranter, poet, publisher and editor (born 1943)[13]
- 22 April – Barry Humphries, comedian, author, actor and satirist (born 1934)[14]
- 2 May – Gabrielle Carey, novelist (born 1959)[15]
- 22 May – Andrew Burke, poet (born 1944)[16]
- 30 June – Ron Pretty, poet (born 1940)[17]
- 6 August – Elizabeth Webby, scholar of Australian literature (born 1942)[18]
See also
References
- "Skovron wins 2023 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- Burke, Kelly (25 July 2023). "Shankari Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin award for Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- Jefferson, Dee (22 May 2023). "One book just won a record four out of 14 prizes at $350,000 NSW literary awards". ABC News. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- "Winners of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards announced". Media statements. Queensland Government. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- "Holland-Batt wins 2023 Stella Prize for 'The Jaguar'". Books+Publishing. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- "Au wins 2023 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs". Books+Publishing. 2 February 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- "CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 18 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- "National Biography Award". State Library of NSW. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- "NSW Premier's History Awards 2023 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 8 September 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- "Reid, Ell win 2022 Anne Elder Award". Books+Publishing. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- "Vale Gabrielle Williams". Books+Publishing. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- "Portia ROBINSON AM PhD Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales | Sydney Morning Herald". tributes.smh.com.au.
- "John Tranter Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales". tributes.smh.com.au. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- Runciman, Caleb (22 April 2023). "Barry Humphries: Australian comedic legend dies aged 89". The West Australian. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- "Probate Notice: Gabrielle Carey". NSW Probate Index. 4 May 2023 – via Ryerson Index.
- "BURKE Andrew". The West Announcements. 25 May 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- Roberts, Mark (4 July 2023). "Vale Ron Pretty". Rochford Street Review. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- "Elizabeth Webby". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
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