2023 in Australian literature

Short story collections

• J. M. Coetzee – The Pole and Other Stories
• Laura Jean McKay – Gunflower
• Graeme Simsion – Creative Differences: And Other Stories

Crime and mystery

• Tim Ayliffe – Killer Traitor Spy
• Ashley Kalagian Blunt – Dark Mode
• Shelley Burr – Ripper
• Candice Fox – Fire With Fire
• Megan Goldin – Dark Corners
• Chris Hammer – The Seven
• Amanda Hampson – The Tea Ladies
• Sally Hepworth – Darling Girls
• Fiona McIntosh – Dead Tide
• Benjamin Stevenson – Everyone on this train is a suspect
• Chris Womersley – Ordinary Gods and Monsters

Science fiction and fantasy

• Greg Egan
• "Didicosm"
• Scale
• James Islington – The Will of the Many
• Shelley Parker-Chan – He Who Drowned the World

Poetry

• Stuart Barnes – Like to the Lark
• Dan Hogan – Secret Third Thing
• John Kinsella – Harsh Hakea: Collected Poems Volume Two (2005–2014)
• David McCooey – The Book of Falling
• Jennifer Maiden – Golden Bridge: New Poems
• Pi O – The Tour
• Tais Rose Wae – Riverbed Sky Songs
• Grace Yee – Chinese Fish

Non-Fiction

• Katie Ariel – The Swift Dark Tide
• 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
• Christine Kenneally – Ghosts of the Orphanage
• Sarah Krasnostein – On Peter Carey
• David Marr – Killing for Country: A Family Story
• Ross McMullin – Life So Full of Promise
• Alex Miller – A Kind of Confession: The Writer's Private World
• Matt Preston – Big Mouth
• Alecia Simmonds – Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law
• Margaret Simons – Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms
• Christine Wallace – Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers

Drama

• Nicholas Brown – Sex Magick
• Joanna Murray-Smith – Julia

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

Children and Young Adult

Crime and Mystery

National

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 21 January – Gabrielle Williams, author of young adult fiction (born 1963)
• 3 February – Portia Robinson, historian (born 1926)
• 19 April – Lee Harding, novelist (born 1937)
• 21 April – John Tranter, poet, publisher and editor (born 1943)
• 22 April – Barry Humphries, comedian, author, actor and satirist (born 1934)
• 2 May – Gabrielle Carey, novelist (born 1959)
• 22 May – Andrew Burke, poet (born 1944)
• 30 June – Ron Pretty, poet (born 1940)
• 6 August – Elizabeth Webby, scholar of Australian literature (born 1942)
• 18 November – Nan Witcomb, poet and radio broadcaster (born 1927/1928)
• 21 November – Dale Spender, feminist writer (born 1943)
• 10 December – Michael Blakemore, actor, writer and theatre director (born 1928)
• 12 December – Shirley Barber, children's author and illustrator (born 1935 in the Channel Islands)
• 30 December – John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker (born 1939) (died in the United Kingdom)

See also

• 2023 in Australia
• 2023 in literature
• 2023 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature

References