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
• 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

• 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]

• J. M. Coetzee – The Pole and Other Stories
• Laura Jean McKay – Gunflower^[22]
• Graeme Simsion – Creative Differences: And Other Stories^[23]

• 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]

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

• 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

• 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]

• Nicholas Brown – Sex Magick^[58]
• Joanna Murray-Smith – Julia^[59]

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

• 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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