Barbara Buick AM "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"[11]
Manfred Jurgensen AM "for service to literature as a novelist, poet and critic, and as founder of the journal Outrider"[13]
Edna Laing OAM "for service to the arts and literature through the Creativity Centre, Brisbane"[14]
Rodney Lumer OAM "for service to the arts through the promotion and publication of works by Australian playwrights"[15]
Sydney John Trigellis-Smith OAM "for service to military history as a researcher, author and publisher of several unit histories of campaigns of World War II"[16]
Albert UllinOAM "for service to the promotion of children's literature in Australia and overseas"[17]
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.
19 June —
David Denholm, author and historian who published fiction under the pseudonym David Forrest and history under his own name (born
1924)[41]
1 July —
David Martin, novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer (born
1915)[42]
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)[43]
Barbara Buick AM "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"[11]
Manfred Jurgensen AM "for service to literature as a novelist, poet and critic, and as founder of the journal Outrider"[13]
Edna Laing OAM "for service to the arts and literature through the Creativity Centre, Brisbane"[14]
Rodney Lumer OAM "for service to the arts through the promotion and publication of works by Australian playwrights"[15]
Sydney John Trigellis-Smith OAM "for service to military history as a researcher, author and publisher of several unit histories of campaigns of World War II"[16]
Albert UllinOAM "for service to the promotion of children's literature in Australia and overseas"[17]
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.
19 June —
David Denholm, author and historian who published fiction under the pseudonym David Forrest and history under his own name (born
1924)[41]
1 July —
David Martin, novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer (born
1915)[42]
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)[43]