2017 in Australian literature

Crime

• Sarah Bailey — The Dark Lake
• Alan Carter — Marlborough Man
• Peter Corris — Win, Lose or Draw
• Garry Disher — Under the Cold Bright Lights
• Sulari Gentill — Crossing the Lines
• Anna George — The Lone Child
• Jane Harper – Force of Nature
• Wendy James – The Golden Child
• Adrian McKinty — Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
• Michael Robotham — The Secrets She Keeps
• Iain Ryan — The Student
• Sarah Schmidt — See What I Have Done
• Ann Turner — Out of the Ice
• Emma Viskic – And Fire Came Down

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fiction

• Claire G. Coleman – Terra Nullius
• Thoraiya Dyer – Crossroads of Canopy
• Greg Egan
• Dichronauts
• "Uncanny Valley"
• Ian Irvine – The Fatal Gate
• Kris Kneen – An Uncertain Grace
• Catherine McKinnon – Storyland
• Jane Rawson – From the Wreck
• Angela Slatter – Corpselight
• Cat Sparks – Lotus Blue

Poetry

• Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry
• Bella Li – Argosy
• Jennifer Maiden – The Metronome
• Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real
• Fiona Wright – Domestic Interior

Drama

• Tommy Murphy – Mark Colvin's Kidney
• Alana Valentine & Ursula Yovich – Barbara and the Camp Dogs

Biographies

Non-fiction

• Peter FitzSimons – Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
• Kate Grenville – The Case Against Fragrance
• John Safran – Depends What You Mean by Extremist
• Alexis Wright – Tracker

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

International

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 12 January – Jill Roe, historian, academic and author (born 1940)
• 10 March – Bill Leak, editorial and political cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist (born 1956)
• 9 April – John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist (born 1948 in New Zealand)
• 22 April – Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor (born 1963)
• 2 May – Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter (born 1961)
• 3 May – Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer (born 1948 in Wellington, New Zealand)
• 26 June – Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer (born 1948)
• 27 June – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician (born 1941)
• 2 July – Fay Zwicky, poet, short-story writer, critic and academic best known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish, about her identity as a Jewish writer (born 1933)
• 3 August – Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer (born 1931 in London)
• 6 November – Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic (born 1932)
• 1 December – Ken Inglis, historian (born 1929)
• 22 December – Lilith Norman, children's writer and editor (born 1927)

See also

• 2017 in Australia
• 2017 in literature
• 2017 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature
• List of Australian literary awards

References