- Source: 1997 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1997.
Events
David Foster won the Miles Franklin Award for The Glade Within the Grove
Major publications
= Novels
=John Birmingham — The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
James Bradley — Wrack
Peter Carey — Jack Maggs
J. M. Coetzee — Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
Marele Day — Lambs of God
Luke Davies — Candy
Delia Falconer — The Service of Clouds
Richard Flanagan — The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Elizabeth Jolley — Lovesong
Rod Jones — Nightpictures
Melissa Lucashenko — Steam Pigs
Colleen McCullough — Caesar
Madeleine St John — The Essence of the Thing
Tim Winton — Blueback
Alexis Wright — Plains of Promise
= Children's and young adult fiction
=Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes — Zones
Kim Caraher — Up a Gum Tree
Isobelle Carmody
Darkfall
Greylands
Gary Crew and Michael O'Hara — The Blue Feather
Sonya Hartnett — Princes
Catherine Jinks — Eye to Eye
Garth Nix — Shade's Children
Sarah Walker — The Year of Freaking Out
Tim Winton — Lockie Leonard, Legend
= Science fiction and fantasy
=Damien Broderick & David G. Hartwell (edited) — Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction
Sara Douglass
Sinner
Threshold
Greg Egan
Diaspora
"Reasons to Be Cheerful"
Kim Wilkins — The Infernal
= Crime
=Jon Cleary — A Different Turf
Peter Corris
The Reward
The Washington Club
Garry Disher — Fallout
Kerry Greenwood — Raisins and Almonds
= Poetry
=Peter Boyle — The Blue Cloud of Crying
Alison Croggon — The Blue Gate
Philip Hodgins — Selected Poems
Jill Jones — The Book of Possibilities
Emma Lew — The Wild Reply
Rhyll McMaster — Chemical Bodies: A diary of probable events, 1994–1997
= Drama
=Hilary Bell — Wolf Lullaby
Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin — Box the Pony
David Williamson — After the Ball
= Non-fiction
=Mark Raphael Baker — The Fiftieth Gate
Barbara Blackman — Glass after Glass
Lynne Hume — Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia
Roberta Sykes — Snake Cradle
Awards and honours
Morris West "for service to literature"
Barbara Buick "for service to women, particularly through Equal Employment Opportunity Tribunal in Western Australia and to librarianship and publishing, particularly through the promotion of children's literature"
Ken Goodwin (academic) "for service to literature, art administration and education"
Manfred Jurgensen "for service to literature as a novelist, poet and critic, and as founder of the journal Outrider"
Edna Laing "for service to the arts and literature through the Creativity Centre, Brisbane"
Rodney Lumer "for service to the arts through the promotion and publication of works by Australian playwrights"
Sydney John Trigellis-Smith "for service to military history as a researcher, author and publisher of several unit histories of campaigns of World War II"
Albert Ullin "for service to the promotion of children's literature in Australia and overseas"
= Lifetime achievement
== Literary
== Fiction
=International
National
= Crime and Mystery
=National
= Poetry
== Non-fiction
=Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1997 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
14 February — Marian Eldridge, short story writer, poet and book reviewer (born 1936)
16 February — Gilbert Mant, journalist and writer (born 1902)
8 March — Rupert Lockwood, journalist and author (born 1908)
14 April — Kit Denton, writer and broadcaster (born 1928)
8 June — George Turner, writer and critic, best known for science fiction novels (born 1916)
11 June — Jill Neville, novelist, playwright and poet (born 1932)
16 June — Dal Stivens, novelist and short story writer (born 1911)
19 June — David Denholm, author and historian who published fiction under the pseudonym David Forrest and history under his own name (born 1924)
1 July — David Martin, novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer (born 1915)
2 August — Joyce Dingwell, writer of more than 80 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1931 to 1986, who also wrote under the pseudonym of Kate Starr (born 1909)
Unknown date
Roger Bennett, actor and playwright (born 1948)
See also
1997 in Australia
1997 in literature
1997 in poetry
List of years in literature
List of years in Australian literature
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