2017 in Australian literature

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home
• Steven Carroll – A New England Affair
• Felicity Castagna – No More Boats
• J. M. Coetzee – The Schooldays of Jesus
• Michelle de Kretser – The Life to Come
• Robert Drewe – Whipbird
• Richard Flanagan – First Person
• Eva Hornung – The Last Garden
• Sofie Laguna – The Choke
• Alex Miller – The Passage of Love
• Gerald Murnane – Border Districts
• Bram Presser – The Book of Dirt
• Mirandi Riwoe – The Fish Girl
• Kim Scott – Taboo
• Jock Serong – ''On the Java Ridge''

Short story collections

• Melanie Cheng – ''Australia Day''

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Judith Clarke – My Lovely Frankie
• Zana Fraillon – The Ones That Disappeared
• Morris Gleitzman – Maybe
• Andy Griffiths
• * The Tree House Fun Book 2
• * The 91-Storey Treehouse
• Jessica Townsend – ''Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow''

Crime

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

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative fiction

• Claire G. Coleman – Terra Nullius
• Thoraiya Dyer – Crossroads of Canopy
• Greg Egan
• * Dichronauts
• * "Uncanny Valley"
• Ian Irvine – The Fatal Gate
• Kris Kneen – An Uncertain Grace
• Catherine McKinnon – Storyland
• Jane Rawson – From the Wreck
• Angela Slatter – Corpselight
• Cat Sparks – ''Lotus Blue''

Poetry

• Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry
• Bella Li – Argosy
• Jennifer Maiden – The Metronome
• Alan Wearne – These Things Are Real
• Fiona Wright – ''Domestic Interior''

Drama

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

Biographies

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

Non-fiction

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

Awards and honours

Literary

Fiction

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

International

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 12 January – Jill Roe, historian, academic and author
• 10 March – Bill Leak, editorial and political cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist
• 9 April – John Clarke, comedian, writer and satirist
• 22 April – Donna Williams, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor
• 2 May – Michael Gurr, playwright, author, speech writer and screenwriter
• 3 May – Rosie Scott, novelist and lecturer
• 26 June – Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer
• 27 June – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician
• 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
• 3 August – Jack Wodhams, science fiction writer
• 6 November – Sylvia Lawson, historian, journalist and critic
• 1 December – Ken Inglis, historian
• 22 December – Lilith Norman, children's writer and editor