2017 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017.

• Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home^[1]
• Felicity Castagna – No More Boats^[2]
• J. M. Coetzee – The Schooldays of Jesus
• Michelle de Kretser – The Life to Come
• Robert Drewe – Whipbird^[3]
• Richard Flanagan – First Person^[4]
• Eva Hornung – The Last Garden^[5]
• Sofie Laguna – The Choke^[6]
• Alex Miller – The Passage of Love
• Gerald Murnane – Border Districts
• Bram Presser – The Book of Dirt
• Kim Scott – Taboo^[7]
• Jock Serong – On the Java Ridge

• Melanie Cheng – Australia Day

• Judith Clarke – My Lovely Frankie^[8]
• Zana Fraillon – The Ones That Disappeared ^[9]
• Morris Gleitzman – Maybe^[10]
• Andy Griffiths
  • The Tree House Fun Book 2^[11]
  • The 91-Storey Treehouse^[12]
• Jessica Townsend – Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

• Sarah Bailey — The Dark Lake^[13]
• Alan Carter — Marlborough Man^[14]
• Peter Corris — Win, Lose or Draw
• Garry Disher — Under the Cold Bright Lights^[15]
• Sulari Gentill — Crossing the Lines
• Anna George — The Lone Child^[16]
• Jane Harper – Force of Nature
• Wendy James – The Golden Child^[17]
• Adrian McKinty — Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
• Michael Robotham — The Secrets She Keeps^[18]
• Iain Ryan — The Student^[19]
• Sarah Schmidt — See What I Have Done^[20]
• Ann Turner — Out of the Ice^[21]

• Claire G. Coleman – Terra Nullius
• Thoraiya Dyer – Crossroads of Canopy
• Greg Egan
  • Dichronauts
  • "Uncanny Valley"^[22]
• Ian Irvine – The Fatal Gate^[23]
• Catherine McKinnon – Storyland^[24]
• Jane Rawson – From the Wreck
• Angela Slatter – Corpselight^[25]
• Cat Sparks – Lotus Blue^[26]

• Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry^[27]
• Bella Li – Argosy^[28]
• Jennifer Maiden – The Metronome^[29]
• Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real^[30]
• Fiona Wright – Domestic Interior^[31]

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

• Bernadette Brennan – A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
• Judith Brett — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin^[32]
• Brentley Frazer – Scoundrel Days: A Memoir
• Sarah Krasnostein – The Trauma Cleaner

• Peter FitzSimons – Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers^[33]
• Kate Grenville – The Case Against Fragrance^[34]
• John Safran – Depends What You Mean by Extremist
• Alexis Wright – Tracker^[35]

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

• 12 January – Jill Roe, historian, academic and author (born 1940)^[62]
• 10 March – Bill Leak, editorial and political cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist (born 1956)^[63]
• 9 April – John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist (born 1948 in New Zealand)^[64]
• 22 April – Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor (born 1963)^[65]
• 2 May – Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter (born 1961)^[66]
• 3 May – Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer (born 1948 in Wellington, New Zealand)^[67]
• 26 June – Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer (born 1948)^[68]
• 27 June – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician (born 1941)^[69]
• 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)^[70]
• 3 August – Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer (born 1931 in London)^[71]
• 6 November – Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic (born 1932)^[72]
• 1 December – Ken Inglis, historian (born 1929)^[73]
• 22 December – Lilith Norman, children's writer and editor (born 1927)^[74]

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