This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Tony Birch, Women & Children
- 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
- Tracy Sorensen, The Vitals
- Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between
- 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
- Chanel Contos, Consent Laid Bare
- Robyn Davidson, Unfinished Woman
- Marele Day, Reckless
- Martin Flanagan, The Empty Honour Board
- Clementine Ford, I Don't
- 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
- Matt Preston, Big Mouth
- 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
- Chris Womersley, Ordinary Gods and Monsters
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 |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[2] | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing |
| Colin Roderick Award[3] | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | University of Queensland Press |
| Stella Prize[4] | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | University of Queensland Press |
Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[5] | Anna McGahan | Immaculate | Allen & Unwin | |
| Miles Franklin Award[6] | Shankari Chandran | Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens | Ultimo Press | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[7] | Fiction | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8] | Katerina GIbson | Women I Know | Scribner | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[9] | Fiction | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[10] | 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[11] | 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[7] | 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[8] | Children's | Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas | The First Scientists | Hardie Grant |
| Young People's | Lystra Rose | The Upwelling | Hachette | |
| Queensland Literary Awards[9] | 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[10] | Young Adult Fiction | Kate Murray | We Who Hunt the Hollow | Hardie Grant |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[12] | Novel | Tracey Lien | All That’s Left Unsaid | HQ Fiction |
| Debut | Hayley Scrivenor | Dirt Town | Pan Macmillan | |
| Ned Kelly Award[13] | Novel | Jane Harper | Exiles | Pan Macmillan |
| First novel | Shelley Burr | Wake | Hachette Australia | |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Biography Award[14] | 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[7] | Non-Fiction | Sam Vincent | My Father and Other Animals | Black Inc. |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8] | Non-Fiction | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards[15] | 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[9] | Non-Fiction | Debra Dank | We Come with This Place | Echo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[10] | Non-Fiction | Eda Gunaydin | Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance | NewSouth |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Elder Award[16](joint winners) | Harry Reid | Leave Me Alone | Cordite |
| Theodore Ell | Beginning In Sight | RWP | |
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards[7] | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | UQP |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[8] | Kim Cheng Boey | The Singer and Other Poems | Cordite |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[9] | 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[8] | 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[10] | John Harvey | The Return | Malthouse Theatre |
Deaths
- 21 January – Gabrielle Williams, author of young adult fiction (born 1963)[17]
- 3 February – Portia Robinson, historian (born 1926)[18]
- 21 April – John Tranter, poet, publisher and editor (born 1943)[19]
- 22 April – Barry Humphries, comedian, author, actor and satirist (born 1934)[20]
- 2 May – Gabrielle Carey, novelist (born 1959)[21]
- 22 May – Andrew Burke, poet (born 1944)[22]
- 30 June – Ron Pretty, poet (born 1940)[23]
- 6 August – Elizabeth Webby, scholar of Australian literature (born 1942)[24]
- 18 November – Nan Witcomb, poet and radio. broadcaster (born 1927/1928)[25]
- 21 November – Dale Spender, feminist writer (born 1943)[26]
- 10 December – Michael Blakemore, actor, writer and theatre director (born 1928)[27]
- 12 December – Shirley Barber, children’s author and illustrator (born 1935 in the Channel Islands)[28]
- 30 December – John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker (born 1939) (died in the United Kingdom)[29]
See also
References
- ↑ "Skovron wins 2023 Patrick White Award". Books+Publishing. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ↑ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ↑ "Colin Roderick Award 2023 Long and Short Lists". www.jcu.edu.au. 6 October 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ↑ "Holland-Batt wins 2023 Stella Prize for 'The Jaguar'". Books+Publishing. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ↑ "'Immaculate' wins 2023 Vogel". Books+Publishing. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 4 Howard, Alexander (16 November 2023). "The revamped Prime Minister's Literary Awards reward 'fresh ways of seeing' in 2023". The Conversation. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 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.
- 1 2 3 4 "Winners of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards announced". Media statements. Queensland Government. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 "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.
- ↑ "Davitt Awards 2023 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ↑ "Ned Kelly Awards 2022 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 8 January 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.
- ↑ Adelaide former talkback host and poet Nan Witcomb dies aged 95 (subscription required)
- ↑ "SPENDER, Dale – Death Notices". My Tributes – The Courier-Mail. 25 November 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- ↑ "Director Michael Blakemore Dies at 95". Playbill. 13 December 2023.
- ↑ "Vale Shirley Barber". Books+Publishing. 13 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ↑ "Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger dies aged 84". ITVX. 31 December 2023. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
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