2023 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023.

Events

• July: Publisher Hachette Australia withdraws from publication the book titled Special Operations Group by Christophe Glasl after Victoria Police expressed concerns about the accuracy of the book ^[1]
• December: Yumna Kassab is announced as inaugural Parramatta Laureate of Literature for 2024 ^[2]

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Hossein Asgari – Only Sound Remains ^[3]
• Tony Birch – Women & Children ^[4]
• Jen Craig – Wall ^[5]
• Lauren Aimee Curtis – Strangers in the Port ^[6]
• Trent Dalton – Lola in the Mirror ^[7]
• André Dao – Anam ^[8]
• Gregory Day – The Bell of the World ^[9]
• Ali Cobby Eckermann – She Is the Earth (verse novel) ^[10]
• Kate Grenville – Restless Dolly Maunder ^[11]
• John Kinsella – Cellnight: A verse novel ^[12]
• Melissa Lucashenko – Edenglassie
• Kate Morton – Homecoming ^[13]
• Angela O'Keeffe – The Sitter ^[14]
• Mirandi Riwoe – Sunbirds ^[15]
• Sanya Rushdi – Hospital ^[16]
• Tracy Sorensen – The Vitals ^[17]
• Christos Tsiolkas – The In-Between ^[18]
• Pip Williams – The Bookbinder of Jericho
• Charlotte Wood – Stone Yard Devotional
• Alexis Wright – Praiseworthy

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes – Welcome to Sex, illustrated by Jenny Latham ^[19]
• Will Kostakis – We Could Be Something ^[20]
• Alice Pung – Millie Mak the Maker, illustrated by Sher Rill Ng ^[21]
• Lili Wilkinson – A Hunger of Thorns ^[22]
• Dianne Wolfer – Scout and the Rescue Dogs ^[23]

Short story collections

• J. M. Coetzee – The Pole and Other Stories
• Laura Jean McKay – Gunflower ^[24]
• Graeme Simsion – Creative Differences: And Other Stories ^[25]

Crime and mystery

• Tim Ayliffe – Killer Traitor Spy ^[26]
• Ashley Kalagian Blunt – Dark Mode ^[27]
• Shelley Burr – Ripper ^[28]
• Candice Fox – Fire With Fire ^[29]
• Megan Goldin – Dark Corners ^[30]
• Chris Hammer – The Seven ^[31]
• Amanda Hampson – The Tea Ladies ^[32]
• Sally Hepworth – Darling Girls ^[33]
• Fiona McIntosh – Dead Tide ^[34]
• Benjamin Stevenson – Everyone on this train is a suspect ^[35]
• Chris Womersley – Ordinary Gods and Monsters ^[36]

Science fiction and fantasy

• Greg Egan
  • "Didicosm"
  • Scale ^[37]
• Shelley Parker-Chan – He Who Drowned the World

Poetry

• Stuart Barnes – Like to the Lark ^[38]
• Dan Hogan – Secret Third Thing ^[39]
• John Kinsella – Harsh Hakea: Collected Poems Volume Two (2005–2014) ^[40]
• David McCooey – The Book of Falling ^[41]
• Jennifer Maiden – Golden Bridge: New Poems ^[42]
• Pi O – The Tour ^[43]
• Tais Rose Wae – Riverbed Sky Songs ^[44]
• Grace Yee – Chinese Fish ^[45]

Non-Fiction

• Chanel Contos – Consent Laid Bare ^[46]
• Robyn Davidson – Unfinished Woman ^[47]
• Marele Day – Reckless ^[48]
• Martin Flanagan – The Empty Honour Board ^[49]
• Clementine Ford – I Don't ^[50]
• Anna Funder – Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life ^[51]
• Michael Gawenda – My Life as a Jew ^[52]
• Stan Grant – The Queen is Dead: The Time has Come for a Reckoning ^[53]
• Susan Johnson – Aphrodite's Breath ^[54]
• Christine Kenneally – Ghosts of the Orphanage ^[55]

• Sarah Krasnostein – On Peter Carey ^[56]
• David Marr – Killing for Country: A Family Story ^[57]
• Ross McMullin – Life So Full of Promise ^[58]
• Alex Miller – A Kind of Confession: The Writer's Private World ^[21]
• Matt Preston – Big Mouth ^[59]
• Alecia Simmonds – Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law ^[60]
• Margaret Simons – Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms ^[61]
• Christine Wallace – Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers ^[62]

Drama

• Nicholas Brown – Sex Magick ^[63]
• Joanna Murray-Smith – Julia ^[64]

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

Award	Author
Patrick White Award [65]	Alex Skovron

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal [66]	Debra Dank	We Come With This Place	Echo Publishing
Colin Roderick Award [67]	Sarah Holland-Batt	The Jaguar	University of Queensland Press
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [68]	Craig Silvey	Runt	Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [69]	Debra Dank	We Come With This Place	Echo Publishing
Stella Prize [70]	Sarah Holland-Batt	The Jaguar	University of Queensland Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [71]	Jessica Au	Cold Enough for Snow	Giramondo Publishing

Fiction

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [72]	Not awarded
The Age Book of the Year [73]	Robbie Arnott	Limberlost	Text Publishing
ARA Historical Novel Prize [74]	Gail Jones	Salonika Burning	Text Publishing
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [75]	Anna McGahan	Immaculate	Allen & Unwin
Barbara Jefferis Award [76]	Not awarded
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction [68]	Geraldine Brooks	Horse	Viking Books
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction [68]	Tracey Lien	All That's Left Unsaid	HQ Fiction
Miles Franklin Award [77]	Shankari Chandran	Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens	Ultimo Press
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [78]	Jessica Au	Cold Enough for Snow	Giramondo
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [79]	Katerina GIbson	Women I Know	Scribner
Queensland Literary Awards [80]	Alexis Wright	Praiseworthy	Giramondo
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [71]	Jessica Au	Cold Enough for Snow	Giramondo

Children and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
ARA Historical Novel Prize [74]	Children and Young Adult	Amelia Mellor	The Bookseller’s Apprentice	Affirm Press
Children's Book of the Year Award [81]	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
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [68]	Children's	Craig Silvey	Runt	Allen & Unwin
	Young Adult	Holden Shepherd	The Brink	Text Publishing
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [78]	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 [79]	Children's	Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas	The First Scientists	Hardie Grant
	Young People's	Lystra Rose	The Upwelling	Hachette
Queensland Literary Awards [80]	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 [71]	Young Adult Fiction	Kate Murray	We Who Hunt the Hollow	Hardie Grant

Crime and Mystery

National

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Davitt Award [82]	Novel	Tracey Lien	All That’s Left Unsaid	HQ Fiction
	Young adult novel	Fleur Ferris	Seven Days	Puffin
	Children's novel	Charlie Archbold	The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-Bottomed Boat	Text Publishing
	Non-fiction	Megan Norris	Out of the Ashes	Simon and Schuster Australia
	Debut	Hayley Scrivenor	Dirt Town	Pan Macmillan
	Readers' choice	Vikki Petraitis	The Unbelieved	Allen & Unwin
Ned Kelly Award [83]	Novel	Jane Harper	Exiles	Pan Macmillan
	First novel	Shelley Burr	Wake	Hachette Australia
	True crime	Sandi Logan	Betrayed	Hachette Australia

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [72]	Not awarded
Anne Elder Award [84] (joint winners)	Harry Reid	Leave Me Alone	Cordite
	Theodore Ell	Beginning In Sight	RWP
Mary Gilmore Award [85]	Harry Reid	Leave Me Alone	Cordite
Prime Minister's Literary Awards [78]	Gavin Yuan Gao	At the Altar of Touch	UQP
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [79]	Kim Cheng Boey	The Singer and Other Poems	Cordite
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection [80]	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 [79]	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 [71]		John Harvey	The Return	Malthouse Theatre

Non-Fiction

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [72]	Non-Fiction	Not awarded
The Age Book of the Year [73]	Non-Fiction	Kim Mahood	Wandering With Intent	Scribe
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [68]	Non-Fiction	Richard Fidler	The Book of Roads And Kingdoms	ABC Books
	Illustrated Non-Fiction	Damien Coulthard and Rebecca Sullivan	First Nations Food Companion	Murdoch Books
National Biography Award [86]	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 [78]	Non-Fiction	Sam Vincent	My Father and Other Animals	Black Inc.
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [79]	Non-Fiction	Debra Dank	We Come With This Place	Echo Publishing
New South Wales Premier's History Awards [87]	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 [80]	Non-Fiction	Debra Dank	We Come with This Place	Echo Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards [71]	Non-Fiction	Eda Gunaydin	Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance	NewSouth

Deaths

• 21 January – Gabrielle Williams, author of young adult fiction (born 1963) ^[88]
• 3 February – Portia Robinson, historian (born 1926) ^[89]
• 19 April – Lee Harding, novelist (born 1937) ^[90]
• 21 April – John Tranter, poet, publisher and editor (born 1943) ^[91]
• 22 April – Barry Humphries, comedian, author, actor and satirist (born 1934) ^[92]
• 2 May – Gabrielle Carey, novelist (born 1959) ^[93]
• 22 May – Andrew Burke, poet (born 1944) ^[94]
• 30 June – Ron Pretty, poet (born 1940) ^[95]
• 6 August – Elizabeth Webby, scholar of Australian literature (born 1942) ^[96]
• 18 November – Nan Witcomb, poet and radio broadcaster (born 1927/1928) ^[97]
• 21 November – Dale Spender, feminist writer (born 1943) ^[98]
• 10 December – Michael Blakemore, actor, writer and theatre director (born 1928) ^[99]
• 12 December – Shirley Barber, children's author and illustrator (born 1935 in the Channel Islands) ^[100]
• 30 December – John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker (born 1939) (died in the United Kingdom) ^[101]

See also

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

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