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2023 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2023 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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
- Jen Craig – Wall[4]
- Lauren Aimee Curtis – Strangers in the Port[5]
- Trent Dalton – Lola in the Mirror[6]
- André Dao – Anam
- Gregory Day – The Bell of the World[7]
- Ali Cobby Eckermann – She Is the Earth (verse novel)[8]
- Lexi Freiman – The Book of Ayn
- Madeleine Gray – Green Dot
- Kate Grenville – Restless Dolly Maunder[9]
- John Kinsella – Cellnight: A verse novel[10]
- Melissa Lucashenko – Edenglassie
- Kate Morton – Homecoming[11]
- Angela O'Keeffe – The Sitter
- Mirandi Riwoe – Sunbirds[12]
- Sanya Rushdi – Hospital[13]
- Tracy Sorensen – The Vitals[14]
- Lucy Treloar – Days of Innocence and Wonder[15]
- Christos Tsiolkas – The In-Between[16]
- 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[17]
- Will Kostakis – We Could Be Something[18]
- Alice Pung – Millie Mak the Maker, illustrated by Sher Rill Ng[19]
- Lili Wilkinson – A Hunger of Thorns[20]
- Dianne Wolfer – Scout and the Rescue Dogs[21]
Short story collections
- J. M. Coetzee – The Pole and Other Stories
- Laura Jean McKay – Gunflower[22]
- Graeme Simsion – Creative Differences: And Other Stories[23]
Crime and mystery
- Tim Ayliffe – Killer Traitor Spy[24]
- Ashley Kalagian Blunt – Dark Mode[25]
- Shelley Burr – Ripper[26]
- Candice Fox – Fire With Fire[27]
- Megan Goldin – Dark Corners[28]
- Chris Hammer – The Seven[29]
- Amanda Hampson – The Tea Ladies[30]
- Sally Hepworth – Darling Girls
- Fiona McIntosh – Dead Tide[31]
- Benjamin Stevenson – Everyone on this train is a suspect[32]
- Chris Womersley – Ordinary Gods and Monsters[33]
Science fiction and fantasy
Poetry
- Stuart Barnes – Like to the Lark[34]
- Dan Hogan – Secret Third Thing[35]
- John Kinsella – Harsh Hakea: Collected Poems Volume Two (2005–2014)[36]
- David McCooey – The Book of Falling[37]
- Jennifer Maiden – Golden Bridge: New Poems[38]
- Pi O – The Tour[39]
- Tais Rose Wae – Riverbed Sky Songs[40]
- Grace Yee – Chinese Fish
Non-Fiction
- Katie Ariel – The Swift Dark Tide
- Chanel Contos – Consent Laid Bare[41]
- Robyn Davidson – Unfinished Woman[42]
- Marele Day – Reckless[43]
- Martin Flanagan – The Empty Honour Board[44]
- Clementine Ford – I Don't[45]
- Anna Funder – Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life[46]
- Michael Gawenda – My Life as a Jew[47]
- Stan Grant – The Queen is Dead: The Time has Come for a Reckoning[48]
- Susan Johnson – Aphrodite's Breath[49]
- Christine Kenneally – Ghosts of the Orphanage[50]
- Sarah Krasnostein – On Peter Carey[51]
- David Marr – Killing for Country: A Family Story[52]
- Ross McMullin – Life So Full of Promise[53]
- Alex Miller – A Kind of Confession: The Writer's Private World[19]
- Matt Preston – Big Mouth[54]
- Alecia Simmonds – Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law[55]
- Margaret Simons – Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms[56]
- Christine Wallace – Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers[57]
Drama
- Nicholas Brown – Sex Magick[58]
- Joanna Murray-Smith – Julia[59]
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Awards and honours
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Drama
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Deaths
- 21 January – Gabrielle Williams, author of young adult fiction (born 1963)[84]
- 3 February – Portia Robinson, historian (born 1926)[85]
- 19 April – Lee Harding, novelist (born 1937)[86]
- 21 April – John Tranter, poet, publisher and editor (born 1943)[87]
- 22 April – Barry Humphries, comedian, author, actor and satirist (born 1934)[88]
- 2 May – Gabrielle Carey, novelist (born 1959)[89]
- 22 May – Andrew Burke, poet (born 1944)[90]
- 30 June – Ron Pretty, poet (born 1940)[91]
- 6 August – Elizabeth Webby, scholar of Australian literature (born 1942)[92]
- 18 November – Nan Witcomb, poet and radio broadcaster (born 1927/1928)[93]
- 21 November – Dale Spender, feminist writer (born 1943)[94]
- 10 December – Michael Blakemore, actor, writer and theatre director (born 1928)[95]
- 12 December – Shirley Barber, children's author and illustrator (born 1935 in the Channel Islands)[96]
- 30 December – John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker (born 1939) (died in the United Kingdom)[97]
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References
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