This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Patrick White Award[47] | Alex Skovron |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal[48] | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing |
Colin Roderick Award[49] | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | University of Queensland Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[50] | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing |
Stella Prize[51] | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[52] | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo Publishing |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[53] | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year[54] | Robbie Arnott | Limberlost | Text Publishing |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[55] | Anna McGahan | Immaculate | Allen & Unwin |
Barbara Jefferis Award[56] | Not awarded | ||
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction[57] | Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Viking Books |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Debut Fiction[57] | Tracey Lien | All That's Left Unsaid | HQ Fiction |
Miles Franklin Award[58] | Shankari Chandran | Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens | Ultimo Press |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[59] | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Katerina GIbson | Women I Know | Scribner |
Queensland Literary Awards[61] | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Giramondo |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[52] | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Giramondo |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award[62] | 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[57] | Children's | Craig Silvey | Runt | Allen & Unwin |
Young Adult | Holden Shepherd | The Brink | Text Publishing | |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[59] | 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[60] | Children's | Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas | The First Scientists | Hardie Grant |
Young People's | Lystra Rose | The Upwelling | Hachette | |
Queensland Literary Awards[61] | 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[52] | Young Adult Fiction | Kate Murray | We Who Hunt the Hollow | Hardie Grant |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[63] | 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[64] | Novel | Jane Harper | Exiles | Pan Macmillan |
First novel | Shelley Burr | Wake | Hachette Australia | |
True crime | Sandi Logan | Betrayed | Hachette Australia |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[53] | Not awarded | ||
Anne Elder Award[65](joint winners) | Harry Reid | Leave Me Alone | Cordite |
Theodore Ell | Beginning In Sight | RWP | |
Mary Gilmore Award[66] | Harry Reid | Leave Me Alone | Cordite |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards[59] | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | UQP |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Kim Cheng Boey | The Singer and Other Poems | Cordite |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection[61] | Lionel Fogarty | Harvest Lingo | Giramondo |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | UQP |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[60] | 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[52] | John Harvey | The Return | Malthouse Theatre |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[53] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year[54] | Non-Fiction | Kim Mahood | Wandering With Intent | Scribe |
Indie Book Awards Book of the Year[57] | 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[67] | 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[59] | Non-Fiction | Sam Vincent | My Father and Other Animals | Black Inc. |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[60] | Non-Fiction | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Echo Publishing |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards[68] | 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[61] | Non-Fiction | Debra Dank | We Come with This Place | Echo Publishing |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards[52] | Non-Fiction | Eda Gunaydin | Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance | NewSouth |
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