2017 in Australian literature

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

Literary fiction

 * Peter Carey – A Long Way from Home
 * 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
 * Kim Scott – Taboo

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
 * 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 - "Uncanny Valley"
 * Ian Irvine – The Fatal Gate
 * 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

Biographies

 * Judith Brett — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin

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

Deaths

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