2023 in Australian literature

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

• 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]

• 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

• 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]

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

• 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]

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

• 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]

• 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]

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

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

• 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]

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