List of Australian novelists
Encyclopedia
This is a list of novel
ists living in Australia
or publishing significantly while living there.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ists living in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
or publishing significantly while living there.
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- Azhar AbidiAzhar AbidiAzhar Ali Abidi is a Pakistani Australian author and translator. He went to school in Pakistan and later studied electrical engineering at the Imperial College London and Masters of Business Administration at the University of Melbourne...
(born 1968) Passarola Rising, Twilight - Glenda AdamsGlenda AdamsGlenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral...
(1939–2007) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner (1987) Dancing on Coral - Debra AdelaideDebra AdelaideDebra Adelaide is an Australian novelist, writer and academic who teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.-Biography:Adelaide was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sutherland Shire...
(born 1958) - Malcolm AffordMalcolm AffordMalcolm "Max" Afford was an Australian playwright and novelist.-Early years:Afford was born at Parkside, Adelaide...
(1906–1954) - Maggie AldersonMaggie AldersonMaggie Alderson is a London-born Australian author, magazine editor and fashion journalist. She is the former editor of ES, the Evening Standard magazine and British Elle magazines...
(born 1959) - James AldridgeJames AldridgeHarold Edward James Aldridge was a multi-award–winning Australian author and journalist whose World War II despatches were published worldwide and formed the basis of several of his novels, including the prize-winning The Sea Eagle about Australian troops in Crete.Aldridge was born in White Hills,...
(born 1918) - Ethel AndersonEthel AndersonEthel Anderson was an early twentieth century Australian poetess, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty and ironic stories...
(1883–1958) At Parramatta, 1956 - Jessica AndersonJessica AndersonJessica Margaret Queale Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won several awards and has been published in Britain and the United States.-Life:...
(1916–2010) Miles Franklin Literary Award winner 1978 (Tirra Lirra by the River), 1980 (The Impersonators) - Sarah ArmstrongSarah ArmstrongSarah Armstrong is an Australian journalist and novelist. Over an eight year period she worked for the ABC on radio programs including AM, PM and The World Today where she won a Walkley Award...
(born 1968) Miles Franklin Literary Award nominee 2005 (Salt Rain) - Wayne Ashton (born 1959) Under a Tin Grey Sari
- Thea AstleyThea AstleyThea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
(1925–2004) Miles Franklin Literary Award winner 1999 (Drylands), 1972 (The Acolyte), 1965 (The Slow Natives), 1962 (The Well Dressed Explorer) - Hugh Atkinson (1924–1994)
- Louisa Atkinson (1834–1872)
- Bunty AviesonBunty AviesonCarolyn "Bunty" Avieson is an Australian journalist, novelist and travel writer. Prior to becoming a full-time writer she was editor of the mass-circulation magazines Woman's Day and New Idea....
(born 1962) Apartment 255 (2002), The Wrong Door(2004)
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- Murray BailMurray BailMurray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe...
(born 1941) Miles Franklin Literary Award winner 1999 (Eucalyptus) - Allan BaillieAllan BaillieAllan Baillie is an Australian writer. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his family to Australia when he was seven. He began work as a journalist working on papers such as the Melbourne Sun, Telegraph and the Australian Women's Weekly having studied journalism at Melbourne University...
(born 1943) - Faith BandlerFaith BandlerFaith Bandler, AC also known as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing is an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage. She is a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler is best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on...
(born 1918) - Marjorie BarnardMarjorie BarnardMarjorie Faith Barnard AO was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian - and librarian. She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian...
(1897–1987) - John Arthur BarryJohn Arthur BarryJohn Arthur Barry was a journalist and author.Barry was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, in 1850. His parents died when he was young, and he went to sea at 13 after persuading his guardian and was in the merchant service for 12 years.Leaving with a first mate's certificate, Barry came to...
(1850–1911) - Max BarryMax BarryMax Barry is a contemporary Australian author. He also maintains a blog on various topics, including writing, marketing and politics...
(born 1973) SyrupSyrup (novel)Syrup is a satirical comedy of marketing and consumerism written by Max Barry, under the name Maxx Barry. Published in 1999, it is Barry's debut novel...
(1999), Jennifer GovernmentJennifer GovernmentJennifer Government is a novel written by Max Barry. Published in 2003, it is Barry's second novel, following 1999's Syrup. The novel is set in a dystopian alternate reality in which most nations are dominated by for-profit corporate entities while the government's political power is extremely...
(2003), CompanyCompany (novel)Company is a book written by Max Barry. In 2006 it became Barry's third published novel, following Jennifer Government in 2003. The novel is set in a modern corporation.-Plot summary:...
(2006) - Anne Bartlett (born 1951) Knitting
- Catherine BatesonCatherine BatesonCatherine Bateson Brisbane, Australia. She is an Australian writer.Catherine Bateson grew up in a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane. She attained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, with a major in art history....
(born 1960) - Barbara BayntonBarbara BayntonBarbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton, Lady Headley was an Australian writer, made famous for Bush Studies which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson's works.- Life :...
(1862–1929) Human Toll (1907) - George Lewis BeckeGeorge Lewis BeckeGeorge Lewis Becke was an Australian short-story writer and novelist.-Early life:Becke was born at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, son of Frederick Becke, Clerk of Petty Sessions and his wife Caroline Matilda, née Beilby. Both parents were born in England...
(1855–1913) - Randolph BedfordRandolph BedfordRandolph Bedford was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and Queensland state politician.-Early life:...
(1868–1941) - Larissa BehrendtLarissa BehrendtLarissa Behrendt is an Australian academic and writer of Aboriginal and European descent. She is currently a Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney....
(born 1969) - Barbara BiggsBarbara BiggsBarbara Biggs is an Australian journalist, social commentator, author and child protection campaigner.-Career:Biggs has been a journalist since 1989...
(born 1956) - Carmel BirdCarmel Bird-Life:Carmel Bird is an Australian novelist. She lives in Central Victoria, having grown up in Tasmania.She has written nine literary novels and six collections of short fiction. She has also written three...
(born 1940) Bluebird Cafe (1990), The White Garden (1995) - John BirminghamJohn BirminghamJohn Birmingham is an Australian author. Birmingham was born in Liverpool, England and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1970.-Early life and career:...
(born 1964) Axis of TimeAxis of TimeThe Axis of Time trilogy is an alternate history series of novels written by Australian journalist and author John Birmingham, from Macmillan Publishing.-Plot:...
trilogy (publication commenced 2004), He Died with a Felafel in His HandHe Died With A Felafel In His HandHe Died with a Felafel in His Hand is a novel by John Birmingham, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press . The story consists of a collection of colourful anecdotes about living in share houses in Brisbane and other cities in Australia with variously dubious housemates. The title refers to a...
(Australian comedy, 1994) - Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874–1969)
- Georgia BlainGeorgia BlainGeorgia Blain is a contemporary Australian novelist, journalist and biographer.She is the daughter of journalist Anne Deveson. Her first novel was Closed for Winter. Her most recent work is Births, Deaths and Marriages, a memoir of her childhood which has been short-listed for the Nita Kibble...
(born 1964) - Capel Boake (1889–1944) Painted Clay
- Merlinda BobisMerlinda BobisMerlinda Carullo Bobis is a contemporary Philippine-Australian writer and academic.Born in Legaspi City, in the Philippines province of Albay, Merlinda Bobis attended Bicol University High School then completed her B.A. at Aquinas University in Legaspi City...
(born 1959) Filipino expatriate. Banana Heart Summer (Murdoch Books, 2005); also poet - Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) (1826–1915) Robbery Under ArmsRobbery Under ArmsRobbery Under Arms is a classic Australian novel by Rolf Boldrewood . It was first published in serialised form by The Sydney Mail between July 1882 and August 1883, then in three volumes in London in 1888...
- Guy BoothbyGuy BoothbyGuy Newell Boothby was an Australian novelist and writer.-Biography:Boothby was born in Adelaide, son of Thomas Wilde Boothby, who for a time was a member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly. Guy Boothby's grandfather was Benjamin Boothby , judge of the supreme court of South Australia...
(1867–1905) - Nike Bourke (born 1968); The Bone Flute; True Green of Hope; What The Sky Knows
- Martin BoydMartin BoydMartin à Beckett Boyd was a member of Australia’s most prolific artistic dynasty of painters, sculptors, potters, writers, architects, graphic designers and musicians....
(1893–1972) Brangane: A Memoir (by Martin Mills, pseudonym) (1926); the “Langton” novels: The Cardboard Crown (1952); A Difficult Young Man (1955); Outbreak of Love (1957); When Blackbirds Sing (1962) - Russell BraddonRussell BraddonRussell Reading Braddon was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, The Naked Island, sold more than a million copies....
(1921–1995) The Naked Island - James BradleyJames Bradley (Australian writer)James Bradley is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer.His books include three novels and a book of poetry...
(born 1967) Wrack (1997); The Deep Field (1999);The Resurrectionist (2006) - Lily BrettLily BrettLily Brett is an award-winning Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. Much of her writing deals with her Jewish family semi-biographically and with her feelings about the Holocaust....
(born 1946) Just Like That - Paul BrickhillPaul BrickhillPaul Chester Jerome Brickhill was an Australian writer, whose World War II books were turned into popular movies.-Biography:...
(1916–1991) WWIIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
RAAFRoyal Australian Air ForceThe Royal Australian Air Force is the air force branch of the Australian Defence Force. The RAAF was formed in March 1921. It continues the traditions of the Australian Flying Corps , which was formed on 22 October 1912. The RAAF has taken part in many of the 20th century's major conflicts...
fighterFighter aircraftA fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets...
pilot, The Great Escape (book)The Great Escape (book)The Great Escape is an insider's account by Paul Brickhill of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. As a prisoner in the camp, he participated in the escape plan but was debarred from the actual escape 'along with three or...
(New York: Norton, 1950) - Damien BroderickDamien BroderickDamien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
(born 1944) Science fiction The Judas Mandala - Steve BrookSteve BrookSteve Brook , born in London, England and trained as a compositor in Sydney, Australia, is a Melbourne based satirical writer with a history of involvement in progressive causes, following a period as a journalist with Polish Radio in Warsaw.Owing to his literary and historical talents, his...
(born 1934) Polish-born journalist and satirical novelist - Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
for fiction, 2006: March (2005); Year of WondersYear of WondersYear of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. It was chosen as both a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book.-Plot introduction:...
(2001), also Pulitzer Prize winning journalist - Carter BrownCarter BrownCarter Brown, real name Alan Geoffrey Yates , was an Australian-British author of crime fiction. He was born in London but moved to Australia in 1948. He started writing full time in 1953 and wrote at least 317 novels between 1958 and 1985, mostly crime and dective stories, selling tens of millions...
(1923–1985) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Janine BurkeJanine BurkeJanine Burke, is an author, art historian, biographer and novelist. She has also curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. Currently, Dr Burke holds a research fellowship at Monash University....
(born 1952)
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- Kathleen CaffynKathleen Mannington CaffynKathleen Mannington Caffyn was an Irish – Australian novelist.Kathleen was born in Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of William de Vere Hunt, and was related to Aubrey de Vere, the poet. She was educated by English and German governesses and moved to London when about 21 years of age...
(c. 1855–1926) - Mena CalthorpeMena CalthorpeMena Ivy Bright Calthorpe was an Australian writer, who was once short listed for the Miles Franklin Award.-Personal life:Calthorpe was born Mena Bright in Goulburn, New South Wales and was a keen writer from an early age...
(c. 1905–1996) - Ada CambridgeAda CambridgeAda Cambridge , later known as Ada Cross, was an English writer.Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works...
(1844–1926) - Marion May CampbellMarion May CampbellMarion May Campbell is a contemporary Australian novelist and academic.Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Campbell earned a BA in French Literature studying first at the University of New South Wales and completing her degree at the University of Western Australia...
(born 1948) - Rosa Campbell PraedRosa Campbell PraedRosa Campbell Praed , often credited as Mrs Campbell Praed , was an Australian novelist in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her large bibliography covered multiple genres, and books for children as well as adults...
(1851–1935) - Trudi CanavanTrudi CanavanTrudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...
(born 1969) - Rosa Cappiello (born 1942)
- Gabrielle CareyGabrielle CareyGabrielle Carey is an Australian writer noted for the teen novel Puberty Blues which she co-wrote with Kathy Lette. This novel was the first teenage novel published in Australia that was actually written by teenagers.-Life:...
(born 1959) Puberty BluesPuberty BluesPuberty Blues is a 1981 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film is based on the 1979 novel Puberty Blues, by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, which is a proto-feminist teen novel about two 13 year-old girls from the Sutherland Shire in Sydney, Australia... - Peter Carey (born 1943) IllywhackerIllywhackerIllywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985, short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize, and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award...
, Oscar and LucindaOscar and LucindaOscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.-Plot introduction:...
, twice Booker Prize Winner and three time Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner - Isobelle CarmodyIsobelle CarmodyIsobelle Jane Carmody is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.-Biography:Carmody began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles at the age of fourteen...
(born 1958) - Steven CarrollSteven CarrollSteven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT...
(born 1949) - Jay CaselbergJay CaselbergJay Caselberg is an Australian science fiction/mystery/fantasy fiction author. As of May 2011, he has published five novels and multiple short stories under his own name. He has also written under the pseudonym James A. Hartley...
Science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities... - Gavin Casey (1907–1964)
- Belinda CastlesBelinda CastlesBelinda Castles is an English-born Australian novelist. The River Baptists, for which she won the 2006 Australian/Vogel Award, is her second novel; her first was Falling Woman.-Life:...
(born 1971) The River Baptists 2006 Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner - Brian CastroBrian CastroBrian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
(born 1950) - Nancy CatoNancy CatoNancy Fotheringham Cato AM was an Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. Cato is also known for her work campaigning on environmental and conservation issues....
(1917–2000)
- Nick CaveNick CaveNicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
(born 1957) - Arlene J. ChaiArlene J. ChaiArlene J. Chai is a Filipino-Chinese-Australian author.Chai is a Filipino-Chinese-Australian, who migrated to Australia with her parents and sisters in 1982 because of the political upheaval. She became an advertising copywriter at George Patterson's advertising agency in 1972 and has been...
(born 1955) - Joy ChambersJoy ChambersJoy Chambers is an Australian actress and author. She is best known for such television soap opera roles as Rita Merrick in The Restless Years, Dr Robyn Porter in The Young Doctors, and Rosemary Daniels in Neighbours. Chambers has played Rosemary since 1986. Rosemary is the only character who has...
- John Charalambous (born 1956) Furies 2004 Silent Parts 2006
- Nan ChauncyNan ChauncyNan Chauncy was a British-born Australian author of children's books.-Early life:Chauncy was born Nancen Beryl Masterman in Northwood, Middlesex, England and emigrated to Tasmania, Australia with her family in 1912, when her engineer father was offered a job with the Hobart City Council. She...
(1900–1970) - Marcus ClarkeMarcus ClarkeMarcus Andrew Hislop Clarke was an Australian novelist and poet, best known for his novel For the Term of his Natural Life.- Biography :...
(1846–1881) For the Term of his Natural LifeFor the Term of his Natural LifeFor the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 , appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history... - James ClavellJames ClavellJames Clavell, born Charles Edmund DuMaresq Clavell was an Australian-born, British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war...
(1924–1994) ShogunShogunA was one of the hereditary military dictators of Japan from 1192 to 1867. In this period, the shoguns, or their shikken regents , were the de facto rulers of Japan though they were nominally appointed by the emperor...
also screenwriter, director (the original The FlyThe Fly (1958 film)The Fly is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film, directed by Kurt Neumann. The screenplay was written by James Clavell , from the short story "The Fly" by George Langelaan...
). - Jon ClearyJon ClearyJon Stephen Cleary was an Australian author.-Biography:Cleary was born in Erskineville, Sydney. He wrote many books, among them The Sundowners , a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and The High Commissioner , the first of a long series of popular...
(born 1917) - Inga ClendinnenInga ClendinnenInga Vivienne Clendinnen AO is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.-Life and career:Born in Geelong, Victoria, Clendinnen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a BA...
(born 1934) Reading the Holocaust (1999); Dancing with StrangersDancing with Strangers-Track listing:All songs by Chris Rea.# "Joys of Christmas" - 5:15# "I Can't Dance to That" - 4:19# "Windy Town" - 4:25# "Gonna Buy a Hat" - 4:25# "Curse of the Traveller" - 6:26# "Let's Dance" - 4:07# "Que Sera" - 5:23# "Josie's Tune" - 2:19...
(2004); - Charmian CliftCharmian CliftCharmian Clift was an Australian writer and essayist during the mid 20th century. She was the second wife and literary collaborator of George Johnston.-Biography:...
(1923–1969) - Jane CliftonJane CliftonJane Clifton is a Gibraltar-born actress and singer who lived as a child in Cardiff, Wales. In 1961 she emigrated to Perth, Australia. Her best known acting role is probably that of tough prison bookie Margo Gaffney in Prisoner...
(born 1961) - J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) South African born writer who emigrated to Australia in 2002, and became an Australian citizen in 2006
- Bernard CohenBernard Cohen (Australian author)Bernard Cohen is an Australian writer, the author of four novels and a children's picture book.- Life :Cohen was sub-editor for Editions Review, editor for Gangaroo, and his short stories have been widely anthologised, including in the Penguin Century of Australian Stories, Best Australian Stories...
(born 1963) The Blindman's Hat 1996 Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner - Tom Collins Such is LifeSuch is LifeSuch Is Life: Being Certain Extracts From The Diary of Tom Collins is a novel written by the Australian author Joseph Furphy in 1897, and published on 1 August 1903...
see Joseph Furphy below. - Kenneth CookKenneth CookKenneth Cook was a prolific Australian journalist, film director, screenwriter, TV personality and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy.Born in Lakemba, New South Wales, Cook...
(1929–1987) Wake in FrightWake in FrightWake in Fright is a 1971 Australian film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence and Chips Rafferty. The screenplay was written by Evan Jones, based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel of the same name.... - Jill Ker ConwayJill Ker ConwayJill Ker Conway is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975–1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
(born 1934) - Peter CorrisPeter CorrisPeter Robert Corris is an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction...
(born 1942) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Bryce CourtenayBryce CourtenayArthur Bryce Courtenay AM is a South-African-born naturalized Australian novelist and one of Australia's most commercially successful authors.-Background and early years:...
(born 1933) The Power of OneThe Power of OneThe Power of One is a novel by Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an Anglo-African boy who, through the course of the story, acquires the nickname of Peekay. The Power of One is a novel by Bryce Courtenay, first published... - Jessie Catherine CouvreurJessie Catherine CouvreurJessie Catherine Couvreur was an Australian novelist.Jessie Catherine Couvreur was born at Highgate, London. Her father, Alfred James Huybers, came originally from Antwerp, and his daughter was of Dutch, French and English descent. She arrived in Tasmania with her parents in December 1852 and was...
(1848–1897) - Bernard CroninBernard CroninBernard Cronin was an author and journalist.Bernard Cronin was born on the 18th March 1884 in Ealing, Middlesex, England, second son of Charles Frederick Cronin , an auctioneer, and Laura née Marshall . His father was advised to go to Australia for the sake of his health...
(1884–1968) - Zora CrossZora CrossZora Bernice May Cross was an Australian poet, novelist and journalist.She was born in Brisbane, and was educated at Ipswich Girls' Grammar School and then Sydney Teachers' College...
(1890–1964) - Dymphna CusackDymphna CusackDymphna Cusack AM was an Australian author.Born in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Dymphna Cusack was educated at St Ursula's College, and graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in Arts and a diploma in Education...
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- John Bede DalleyJohn Bede DalleyJohn Bede Dalley was an Australian journalist and novelist, editor of Melbourne Punch.Dalley was born in Rose Bay, Sydney, the second son of William Bede Dalley and Eleanor Jane, née Long. He was born at Sydney and was educated at St Aloysius' College...
(1878–1935) - Eleanor DarkEleanor DarkEleanor Dark was an Australian author whose novels included Prelude to Christopher and Return to Coolami , both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best known work The Timeless Land .-Life and career:Eleanor Dark was born in Sydney...
(1901–1985) Prelude to ChristopherPrelude to ChristopherPrelude to Christopher is a 1934 novella by Eleanor Dark . Dark was awarded the ALS Gold Medal for Prelude to Christopher. The storyline is nonlinear and of interest to those interested in the establishment of modernism in the arts in Australia. The story centers around a Eugenicist experiment...
, The Timeless LandThe Timeless LandThe Timeless Land is a work of historical fiction by Eleanor Dark . The novel The Timeless Land is the first of The Timeless Land trilogy of novels about European settlement and exploration of Australia.... - Helen DarvilleHelen DarvilleHelen Dale , also known as Helen Darville and Helen Demidenko, is an Australian writer and lawyer.While studying English literature at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, she wrote The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who become both bystanders and perpetrators...
(Helen Demidenko) (born 1972) The Hand That Signed the Paper 1993 - Luke DaviesLuke DaviesLuke Davies is an Australian writer of novels, poetry and screenplays, born in Sydney in 1962.Davies' first poetry collection, Four Plots for Magnets, was published in 1982, when he was twenty....
(born 1962) - Frank Dalby DavisonFrank Dalby DavisonFrank Dalby Davison , also known as F.D. Davison and Freddie Davison, was an Australian novelist and short story writer...
(1893–1970) - Eric DandoEric DandoEric Yoshiaki Dando , is a Melbourne writer, best known for the cult novel snail , although his short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Hot Type , Hot Sand , The Age , the Sleepers Alamanac, Going Down Swinging, Cordite, Undergrowth, Verity...
(born 1970) satirical novels Snail and Oink, Oink, Oink - Liam DavisonLiam DavisonLiam Patrick Davison is an award-winning Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, where until 2007, he taught creative writing at the Chisholm Institute of Technology in Frankston....
(born 1957) - Carlton DaweCarlton DaweWilliam Carlton Lanyon Dawe, generally known as Carlton Dawe , was a prolific Australian author of over seventy-seven books including romance, mystery and crime....
(1865–1935) - Dulcie DeamerDulcie DeamerMary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer was an Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor. She was a founder and a committee member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.-Life:...
(1890–1972) - Joel DeaneJoel DeaneJoel Deane is an Australian poet, novelist, and speechwriter.-Biography:Deane, born in Melbourne, Australia, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s, working as a technology journalist...
(born 1969) - Kathryn DeansKathryn DeansKathryn Deans is an Australian children's fantasy author. She was raised in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne in Australia.-Works:* All The Flowers Of Babylon, in issue 25/26 of the Speculative Fiction magazine Aurealis...
children's fantasy - Ralph De BoissièreRalph de BoissièreRalph Anthony Charles de Boissière was an Trinidad-born Australian social realist novelist.Ralph de Boissière was born in Port of Spain, the son of Armand de Boissière, a solicitor, and Maude Harper, an English woman who died three weeks later...
(born 1907) - Michelle de KretserMichelle de KretserMichelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14.She was educated in Melbourne and Paris, and published her first novel, The Rose Grower in 1999...
The Hamilton Case - Meaghan DelahuntMeaghan DelahuntMeaghan Delahunt is a novelist. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and now lives on the East Coast of Scotland. In 2004 she was Writer in Residence in the Management School at St Andrews University, and she now lectures in Creative Writing there....
(born 1961) - Kit DentonKit DentonArnold Christopher "Kit" Denton was a British-born Australian writer, soldier and broadcaster. He was also the father of comedian and television presenter Andrew Denton.-Early life:...
(1928–1997) The Breaker - Robert DessaixRobert Dessaix- Biography :Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He studied in Moscow during the early 1970s, and taught Russian Studies at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales from 1972 to 1984...
(born 1944) Night Letters (1996) - James DevaneyJames DevaneyJames Martin Devaney was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist.-Biography:Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Devaney attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, entering the Marist Brothers juniorate in 1904. He took his vows in 1915...
(1890–1976) - Jean DevannyJean DevannyJane Devanny was an Australian writer and Communist. Born in Ferntown, New Zealand, she migrated to Australia in 1929, eventually moving to Townsville in northern Queensland, where she died at the age of 68....
(1894–1962) - András DomahidyAndrás DomahidyAndrás Domahidy is a contemporary Hungarian-Australian, novelist and retired librarian. His novels are written in Hungarian.Born in Satu Mare, Romania, András Domahidy completed a PhD in Law at Budapest University and served in the Hungarian Army towards the close of World War II...
(born 1920) Writes in HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe.... - Henrietta Drake-BrockmanHenrietta Drake-Brockman-Early life:Henrietta Frances York Drake-Brockman was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1901. She was educated in Scotland, the land of her mother, and at Frensham School]Frensham school for girls in Mittagong. She studied literature at the University of Western Australia and art in Henri Van...
(1901–1968) Men Without Wives - Sara Dowse
- Robert DreweRobert DreweRobert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
(born 1943) Our Sunshine (1991) - Ursula DubosarskyUrsula DubosarskyUrsula Dubosarsky is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five NSW Premier's Literary Awards, more than any other writer in the Awards' 30 year history...
(born 1961) - Alasdair DuncanAlasdair DuncanAlasdair Duncan is an author and journalist, based in Brisbane on the east coast of Australia. He is a section editor at weekly music magazine Rave, where he has published interviews with Cut Copy, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A...
(born 1982) - Mary DurackMary DurackDame Mary Durack AC DBE was an Australian author and historian. She wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country.-Childhood:...
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- Nick EarlsNick EarlsNick Earls is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby...
(born 1963) - Arabella EdgeArabella EdgeArabella Edge is a writer and novelist whose first work, The Company, received a 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.-Early life :...
The Company: The Story of a Murderer - Greg EganGreg EganGreg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
(born 1961) Science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities... - Flora EldershawFlora EldershawFlora Sydney Patricia Eldershaw was an Australian novelist, critic and historian. With Marjorie Barnard she formed the writing collaboration known as M. Barnard Eldershaw...
(1897–1956) - M. Barnard EldershawM. Barnard EldershawM. Barnard Eldershaw was the pseudonym used by the twentieth century Australian literary collaborators Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw...
pseudonym for Flora EldershawFlora EldershawFlora Sydney Patricia Eldershaw was an Australian novelist, critic and historian. With Marjorie Barnard she formed the writing collaboration known as M. Barnard Eldershaw...
and Marjorie BarnardMarjorie BarnardMarjorie Faith Barnard AO was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian - and librarian. She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian... - Sumner Locke ElliottSumner Locke ElliottSumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist.-Biography:Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Helena Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth...
(1917–1991) Careful, He Might Hear YouCareful, He Might Hear YouCareful, He Might Hear You is a 1983 Australian drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name by Australian-American author Sumner Locke Elliott.... - Matilda Jane EvansMatilda Jane EvansMatilda Jane Evans was an Australian novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym Maud Jean Franc....
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- Michel FaberMichel FaberMichel Faber is a Dutch-born writer of fiction. He writes in English.Faber was born in The Hague, Netherlands. He and his parents emigrated to Australia in 1967...
(born 1960) The Crimson Petal and the WhiteThe Crimson Petal and the WhiteThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber is a 2002 novel set in Victorian-era England.The title is from a 1847 poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson entitled "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal", the opening line of which is "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white".-Publication history:Canongate... - Delia FalconerDelia FalconerDelia Falconer is the author of a novel, The Service of Clouds and a novella, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. She has been described by Australian critic Peter Craven, in Best Australian Stories 1999, as “the young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature...
(born 1966) - Jennifer FallonJennifer FallonJennifer Fallon is an Australian fantasy/ science fiction author. She is also a businesswoman, trainer and business consultant. Her residence is in Oxford, New Zealand.-Biography:...
(born 1959) FantasyFantasyFantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common... - Beverley FarmerBeverley FarmerBeverley Anne Farmer is an Australian novelist and short story writer.Beverley Farmer was born in Melbourne. She was educated at Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and the University of Melbourne where she graduated with a BA in 1960.She has worked in various jobs, mainly teaching and waitressing...
(born 1941) The House in the Light - Helen FitzGeraldHelen FitzGeraldHelen FitzGerald is a novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her debut novel Dead Lovely, first published by Allen & Unwin in September 2007.-Background:...
(born 1966) novelist and screenwriter, Dead Lovely (2007) - John FlanaganJohn Flanagan (author)John Flanagan is an Australian fantasy author. She lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband. Her best known work is the Ranger's Apprentice novel series, which is about a boy named Will who is taken as an apprentice Ranger to the grim and mysterious Halt. They meet up with many new people,...
(born 1944) Ranger's ApprenticeRanger's ApprenticeRanger's Apprentice is a series of fantasy novels written by Australian author John Flanagan. The first novel in the series, titled The Ruins of Gorlan, was released in Australia on 1 November 2004 and in the United States on 16 June 2005. As of 2011 all eleven books have been released in Australia... - Penny FlanaganPenny FlanaganPenny Flanagan attended high school at Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College and is a Sydney based singer/songwriter and novelist. Her musical career began in 1989 when she cut her teeth on the workings of the Australian music industry as one half of the widely acclaimed folk-pop duo, Club Hoy...
(born 1970) - Richard FlanaganRichard FlanaganRichard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
(born 1961) Gould's Book of FishGould's Book of FishGould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish is a 2001 novel by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan. Gould's Book of Fish was Flanagan's third novel.-Plot summary:... - Tom FloodTom FloodTom Flood is an Australian novelist, editor, manuscript assessor, songwriter and musician. Tom Flood was born in Sydney in New South Wales, the son of writer Dorothy Hewett and grew up in Western Australia....
(born 1955) Oceana FineOceana FineOceana Fine is a 1989 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Tom Flood.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1990: winner*Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 1990: winner... - David FosterDavid Foster (novelist)David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist. He is one of the most adventurous writers of his generation, publishing a range of satires and considerations of the decline of Western civilization...
(born 1944) The Glade Within the Grove (1997) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ... - Mabel ForrestMabel ForrestHelena Mabel Checkley Forrest was an Australian writer and journalist.Forrest was born near Yandilla, Queensland , the daughter of James Checkley Mills and his wife Margaret Nelson, née Haxell....
(1872–1935) - Miles FranklinMiles FranklinStella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901...
(1879–1954) My Brilliant CareerMy Brilliant CareerMy Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel written by Miles Franklin.It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin , one of the major Australian writers of her time. It was written while she was still a teenager, as a romance to amuse her friends...
Her estate led to creation of the Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ... - Jackie FrenchJackie FrenchJacqueline Anne "Jackie" French is an award-winning Australian author. She writes mainly children's fiction and books on gardening....
(born 1953) - Mary Eliza FullertonMary Eliza FullertonMary Eliza Fullerton was an Australian writer.Fullerton was born in Glenmaggie, Victoria, was educated at home by her mother and at the local state school. After leaving school she stayed on her parents property, until she moved to Melbourne in her early twenties. She was active in the women's...
(1868–1946) - Joseph FurphyJoseph FurphyJoseph Furphy , is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel". He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins, and is best known for his novel Such is Life , regarded as an Australian classic.-Biography:Furphy was born at Yering Station in Yering, Victoria...
(1843–1912) Such is LifeSuch is LifeSuch Is Life: Being Certain Extracts From The Diary of Tom Collins is a novel written by the Australian author Joseph Furphy in 1897, and published on 1 August 1903...
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- Helen GarnerHelen GarnerHelen Garner is an award-winning Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.-Life:Garner was born in Geelong, Victoria, the eldest of six children. She attended Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove State School and then The Hermitage in Geelong...
(born 1942), Monkey GripMonkey Grip (novel)Monkey Grip is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book. It initially received a mixed critical reception, but has now become accepted as a classic of modern Australian literature. A film based on the novel, also titled Monkey Grip, was released in 1982.-Plot summary:The...
, The Children's BachThe Children's BachThe Children's Bach is a chamber opera by the Australian composer Andrew Schultz to a libretto by Glenn Perry, based on the 1984 novella of the same name by Helen Garner...
, The Spare RoomThe Spare RoomThe Spare Room is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, set over the course of three weeks while the narrator, Helen, cares for a friend dying of bowel cancer. The Spare Room was published in 2008.- Plot summary:... - Mary GauntMary GauntMary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt was an Australian novelist.Mary was the eldest daughter of William Henry Gaunt, a Victorian county court judge, and was born in Chiltern, Victoria. She was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, being one of the first two women students...
(1861–1942) - Nikki GemmellNikki GemmellNikki Gemmell is an Australian author, best known for anonymously writing the best-selling erotic novel The Bride Stripped Bare....
(born 1966), The Bride Stripped BareThe Bride Stripped BareThe Bride Stripped Bare is a 2003 novel written by the Australian writer Nikki Gemmell, originally published anonymously. The title is borrowed from the painting The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even by Marcel Duchamp... - Ruby Langford GinibiRuby Langford GinibiRuby Langford Ginibi was an acclaimed Bundjalung author, historian and lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture and politics.-Names:...
(born 1934) - Alan GoldAlan Gold (author)Alan David Gold, is an Australian novelist, literary critic and human rights activist.Gold was born in Leicester, UK and began his working life on British provincial newspapers such as the Leicester Mercury before becoming a freelance correspondent in the United Kingdom and Europe.He has written...
(born 1945), historical novelHistorical novelAccording to Encyclopædia Britannica, a historical novel is-Development:An early example of historical prose fiction is Luó Guànzhōng's 14th century Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which covers one of the most important periods of Chinese history and left a lasting impact on Chinese culture.The...
s - Andrea GoldsmithAndrea Goldsmith-Life:Goldsmith was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish family. She started learning the piano as a young child, and music remains an abiding passion. She initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children with severe communication impairment until...
(born 1950) - Peter GoldsworthyPeter GoldsworthyPeter Goldsworthy AM is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti....
(born 1951) Honk If You are Jesus (1992) - Alan GouldAlan GouldAlan Gould is a contemporary Australian novelist and poet.Born in London Alan Gould's family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966. He completed a BA at Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of...
(born 1949), To the Burning City, also poet - Nathaniel GouldNathaniel GouldNathaniel Gould, always known as Nat Gould, was a British novelist.Gould was born at Manchester, Lancashire, the only surviving child of Nathaniel Gould, a tea merchant, and his wife Mary, née Wright. Both parents came from Derbyshire yeomen families. The boy was indulgently brought up and well...
(1857–1919) - Posie Graeme-EvansPosie Graeme-EvansPosie Graeme-Evans spent her childhood travelling between Europe, Asia and Australia. Having worked extensively in the Australian film and television industries as an editor, director, writer and producer/executive producer, Posie is now a full-time novelist .-Early life:Graeme-Evans is the...
(born 1952) - Richard Harry GravesRichard Harry GravesRichard Harry Graves was an Irish-born Australian poet and novelist.In World War II Graves founded and led the Australian Jungle Rescue Detachment of 60 soldiers, which was attached to the Far East American Airforce. These men conducted over 300 rescues, all of which were completed successfully...
(1898–1971) - Evan GreenEvan GreenEvan Clifford Symons Green was a well-known Australian motoring journalist and a novelist. He is also a former rally driver with international recognition. He was born in Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia...
(1930–1996) - Kerry GreenwoodKerry GreenwoodKerry Greenwood is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as...
(born 1954), crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Kate GrenvilleKate GrenvilleKate Grenville is one of Australia's best-known authors. She's published nine novels, a collection of short stories, and four books about the writing process....
(born 1950) The Idea of Perfection (2001) Orange Prize for FictionOrange Prize for FictionThe Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year...
The Secret River (2006) Commonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website... - Dick GrossDick GrossRichard Andrew Landa Gross was President of the Municipal Association of Victoria, and former three-time Mayor of the City of Port Phillip, Australia, from 1998–2000 and in 2004, and has served on the Port Phillip City Council, representing the Blessington Ward, since its creation in 1996...
(born 1954) - Mrs Aeneas GunnJeannie GunnJeannie Gunn OBE was an Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia volunteer.- Life :...
(Jeannie Gunn) (1870–1961), We of the Never NeverWe of the Never NeverWe of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure their identities. She published this book...
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- Alfred Arthur Greenwood HalesAlfred Arthur Greenwood HalesAlfred Arthur Greenwood Hales was an Australian novelist and war correspondent.Hales was born at Kent Town, Adelaide, the son of Frederick Greenwood Hales, a wood-turner, and his wife Sarah Leigh, née Veal. He had the ordinary primary education of his time, and after being apprenticed to a...
(1860–1936) - Rodney HallRodney Hall-Biography:Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland . In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the...
(born 1935) Just Relations (1982), The Grisly Wife (1994) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
; The Day We Had Hitler HomeThe Day We Had Hitler Home-Reviews:*"The Australian Public Intellectual Network" *"The London Review of Books" *"The Observer" *"Words and Flavours"... - Marion HalliganMarion HalliganMarion Mildred Halligan AM is an Australian writer and novelist. She was born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales, and worked as a school teacher and journalist before publishing her first short stories. Halligan has served as chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and...
(born 1940) - Rosalie Ham; The Dressmaker (2000); Summer at Mt Hope (2005)
- Lyn HancockLyn HancockLyn Hancock is an award-winning Australian-Canadian photojournalist, wildlife photographer, and book author.She has raised numerous orphaned wild animals, including bears, cougars, eagles, puffins, raccoons, and seals; her experiences while doing so have formed the basis of her 20 books, including...
; (born 1938) - Derek HansenDerek HansenDerek Hansen is a novelist and short story writer.He was born in England, raised in New Zealand and now lives in Sydney, Australia. He was formerly in advertising, but walked away at the peak of his career, to follow his dream to write novels. Derek Hansen's works have been published in the USA,...
(born 1944) - Lee HardingLee Harding (writer)Lee John Harding is an Australian freelance photographer, who became a writer of science fiction novels and short stories.-Science fiction writing:...
(born 1937) Science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities... - Traci HardingTraci HardingTraci Harding is an Australian novelist.Her work combines fantasy, facts, history and esoteric beliefs. She has recently sold the film rights to The Alchemist Key, with production recommencing in 2011...
Fantasy. - Frank HardyFrank HardyFrancis Joseph Hardy, or Frank, was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel Power Without Glory. He also was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, The Unlucky...
(1917–1994) Power Without GloryPower Without GloryPower Without Glory is a 1950 novel written by Australian writer Frank Hardy. It was later adapted into a mini-series by the Australian Broadcasting Commission .- Publication :... - Alexander HarrisAlexander Harris (writer)Alexander Harris was a soldier, teacher and author known for his early fictional accounts of convict life in Australia.He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1825 and returned to London, England in 1841....
(1805–1874) - Elizabeth HarrowerElizabeth Harrower (writer)Elizabeth Harrower is an Australian novelist and short story writer.She was born in Sydney but spent her childhood in industrial Newcastle, New South Wales. She lived in London from 1951 to 1959...
(born 1928) The Long Prospect - Sonya HartnettSonya HartnettSonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...
(born 1968) - John HarwoodJohn Harwood (writer)John Harwood was born in Hobart, Tasmania and is an Australian poet, literary critic and novelist.Educated at the University of Tasmania and Cambridge University, Harwood has worked as an academic at Flinders University in South Australia...
(born 1946) - Nicholas HasluckNicholas HasluckThe Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM is an Australian novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife, Sally-Anne, and has two children.-Early life:...
(born 1944) - Shirley HazzardShirley HazzardShirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States...
(born 1931) The Transit of Venus (1980) National Book Critics Circle AwardNational Book Critics Circle AwardThe National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
, The Great Fire (2003) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
. - Ruth HegartyRuth HegartyRuth Hegarty is an Aboriginal Elder and author.Hegarty is well known for her non-fiction novels that document her personal history as one of the Stolen Generation. Her first book, Is That You Ruthie?, is based on her experiences in the Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission where she lived until the age of...
(born 1929) Is That You Ruthie? - Rolf HeimannRolf HeimannRolf Heimann is an Australian author, cartoonist and illustrator.Heimann was born in Dresden, Germany, fled to the West in 1955 and migrated to Australia in 1959....
(born 1940) - Anita HeissAnita HeissAnita Heiss is a contemporary Australian author of Austrian and Indigenous Australian descent.Anita Heiss is from the Wiradjuri people though she grew up in and lives in Sydney. Her mother was brought up in a Catholic mission and her father is originally from Austria...
(born 1968) - John David HennesseyJohn David HennesseyJohn David Hennessey , also known as Rev. J. D. Hennessey and David Hennessey, journalist and author, was born in London and went to Australia in 1875...
(1847–1935) - Mark Henshaw (born 1951)
- Xavier HerbertXavier HerbertXavier Herbert was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country . He is considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature...
(1901–1984) Poor Fellow My CountryPoor Fellow My CountryPoor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. It is the longest Australian book ever written. Primarily, it is the story of Jeremy Delacy and his illegitimate grandson Prindy in the years leading up to World War II... - Dorothy HewettDorothy HewettDorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership.-Early life:Hewett was born in Perth and was brought up on a sheep and wheat farm...
(1923–2002) Also poet & playwright - Kathryn HeymanKathryn HeymanKathryn Heyman is an Australian writer, born in Lismore, New South Wales.Heyman is the author of four novels: The Breaking , Keep Your Hands on the Wheel , The Accomplice and Captain Starlight's Apprentice . She is also a playwright for theatre and radio and has held a number of creative writing...
(born 1965) - Jennifer HiggieJennifer HiggieJennifer Higgie is an Australian novelist, screenwriter, art critic and co-editor of the London-based contemporary arts magazine, Frieze.-Career:...
- Helen HodgmanHelen HodgmanHelen Hodgman is an Australian novelist. She won the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award for her novel Jack and Jill. She also won the 1989 Christina Stead Fiction Prize for the novel Broken Words. Her remaining works include Waiting for Matindi, Passing Remarks, Ducks, Blue Skies and The Bad...
(born 1945) Broken Words (1989) Christina Stead Fiction PrizeNew South Wales Premier's Literary AwardsThe New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities... - Chloe HooperChloe HooperChloe Hooper is an Australian author. Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime , was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book...
(born 1973) - Janette Turner HospitalJanette Turner HospitalJanette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia...
(born 1942) OysterOysterThe word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified....
(1996) - Fergus HumeFergus HumeFergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume was an English novelist.-Early life:Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. At the age of three years his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. He attended Otago Boys' High School and studied law at the University...
(1859–1932) - Maria Hyland (born 1968) Carry Me DownCarry Me DownCarry Me Down is the second novel of British writer M. J. Hyland. It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize....
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- David IrelandDavid Ireland (author)David Neil Ireland AM is an Australian novelist.-Biography:David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927....
(born 1927) A Woman of the Future (1979), The Glass Canoe (1976) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ... - Ian IrvineIan IrvineIan Irvine is an Australian fantasy and eco-thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries and continues to write full-time.- Career :Irvine was born in...
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- Antoni JachAntoni JachAntoni Jach is an Australian novelist, painter and publisher. He is interested in modernist writing, founding his Modern Writing Press and acting as an editorial adviser at the literary journal, Heat. One of his plays was performed in 2010 and one of his paintings was featured on the cover of...
(1956) Napoleon's Double, The Weekly Card Game, The Layers of the City. - Annamarie JagoseAnnamarie JagoseAnnamarie Jagose is a queer writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD in 1992, and worked in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she is currently Professor in the Department of Film,...
(born 1965) Slow WaterSlow Water-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2004: shortlisted*Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2004: winner*Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Deutz Medal For Fiction, 2004: winner-Reviews:*...
. - Florence JamesFlorence JamesFlorence Gertrude James was an Australian author and literary agent.- Life :Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, she moved with her family to Sydney in 1920...
(1902–1993) co-author Come In SpinnerCome In SpinnerCome In Spinner is an Australian novel by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James, originally published in 1951, and set in Sydney, Australia at the end of the second World War.The title refers to a phrase used in the Australian gambling game of two-up....
with Dymphna CusackDymphna CusackDymphna Cusack AM was an Australian author.Born in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Dymphna Cusack was educated at St Ursula's College, and graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in Arts and a diploma in Education... - Winifred Lewellin JamesWinifred Lewellin JamesWinifred Lewellin James was an Australian writer.James, daughter of the Rev. Thomas James, was born at Windsor, near Melbourne, in 1876. She took up journalism in Melbourne, and in 1905 went to London where her first novel Bachelor Betty was published in 1907...
(1876–1941) - Charlotte JayCharlotte JayCharlotte Jay was the pseudonym adopted by Australian mystery writer and novelist, Geraldine Halls . One of the best and most singular authors of the suspense era , she wrote only nine crime books, but their unorthodoxy secured her a high place in Mystery Hall of Fame.Jay was Hall's maiden name and...
(Geraldine Halls) (1919–1996) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
, Beat Not the BonesBeat Not the BonesBeat Not the Bones is a 1952 suspense novel by Charlotte Jay which won the inaugural Edgar award for best novel ....
. - Barbara JefferisBarbara JefferisBarbara Jefferis AM was an Australian author.-Early life, and character formation:Barbara Jefferis was the daughter of Tarlton Jefferis and Lucy Barbara Ingoldsby...
(1917–2004) - Kate JenningsKate JenningsKate Jennings is an Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist.-Life:Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. She attended the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours...
(born 1948) Moral HazardMoral hazardIn economic theory, moral hazard refers to a situation in which a party makes a decision about how much risk to take, while another party bears the costs if things go badly, and the party insulated from risk behaves differently from how it would if it were fully exposed to the risk.Moral hazard...
. - Paul JenningsPaul Jennings (Australian author)Paul Jennings AM is an English-born Australian children's book writer. His books mainly feature short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events that end with a twist.-Biography:...
. (born 1943) Children's literatureChildren's literatureChildren's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
Wicked! (1998) - Dorothy JohnstonDorothy JohnstonDorothy Johnston is an Australian novelist.Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked as a researcher in the education field...
(born 1948) - George JohnstonGeorge Johnston (novelist)George Johnston OBE was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack. His second wife and literary collaborator was Charmian Clift.-Life:...
(1912–1970) My Brother JackMy Brother JackMy Brother Jack is a classic Australian novel by writer George Johnston. It is part of a trilogy centring on the character of David Meredith...
. - Martin JohnstonMartin JohnstonMartin Johnston was an Australian poet and novelist.Martin Johnston was born in Sydney in November 1947, son of the writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift. His early childhood was spent in London and Sydney. In 1954 the family moved to Greece...
(1947–1990) Mainly poet. - Elizabeth JolleyElizabeth JolleyMonica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving...
(1923–2007) The WellThe Well (novel)The Well is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Elizabeth Jolley. It tells the story of two women, Hester and her young ward Katherine, and their relationship with one another. Hester, who has lived alone on a farm with her father for many years, is possessive of the much...
(1986) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ... - Gail JonesGail JonesGail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.-Early life and career:Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia...
(born 1955) - Rae Desmond JonesRae Desmond JonesRae Desmond Jones is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and politician.Jones was born in the mining town of Broken Hill in the far West of New South Wales. Although many of his poems and stories are concerned with urban experience, he has always felt that desert landscapes are...
(born 1941) - Rod Jones (born 1953)
- Nicholas JoseNicholas Jose-Biography:Born Robert Nicholas Jose in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at the Australian National University and Oxford University. He has traveled extensively, particularly in China, where he worked from 1986 to 1990...
(born 1952) Paper Nautilus, The Rose Crossing,The Custodians, The Red Thread.
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- Christopher KelenChristopher KelenChristopher Kelen is an Australian writer and artist currently residing in Macao, China. Kelen is the author of nine volumes of poetry and two novels...
(born 1958) Also poet & artist - Thomas KeneallyThomas KeneallyThomas Michael Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor...
(born 1935) Schindler's ArkSchindler's ArkSchindler's Ark is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg...
(1985) Booker Prize winner, filmed as Schindler's ListSchindler's ListSchindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
; Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winners - Cate KennedyCate KennedyCate Kennedy is an author born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England who moved to Australia in her childhood. She graduated from University of Canberra and has also taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne...
(born 1963) The World Beneath - Robin KleinRobin KleinRobin McMaugh Klein is an Australian author of books for children. She was born 28 February 1936, in Kempsey, New South Wales and now resides near Melbourne.-Early life:...
(born 1936) - Christopher KochChristopher KochChristopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature....
(born 1932) The Doubleman (1985) and Highways to a War (1996) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winners - Torsten KrolTorsten KrolTorsten Krol is an Australian writer resident in Queensland. He is best known for his novels The Dolphin People , a postmodern tale of a World War II-era German family lost in the South American jungle, and Callisto , a satire on modern day American attitudes to terrorism, post-9/11.Described as...
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- John LangJohn Lang (writer)John Lang was an Australian lawyer and was Australia's first native born novelist. Lang was born at Parramatta, Sydney, Australia, second and posthumous son of Walter Lang, merchant adventurer, and his wife Elizabeth, née Harris. Lang was educated at Sydney College under William Timothy Cape...
(1817–1864) - Eve LangleyEve LangleyEve Langley , born Ethel Jane Langley, was an Australian novelist and poet. Her novels belong to a tradition of Australian women's writing that explores the conflict between being an artist and being a woman.-Life:...
(1908–1974) - Coral LansburyCoral Lansbury-Parents and family:Coral Lansbury was born in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Her parents were Oscar Vincent Stephen Lansbury and his wife, May . They were touring Australia in a production of the musical Showboat, and were stranded by the Great Depression...
(1929–1991) - Henry George LamondHenry George LamondHenry George Lamond was an Australian farmer and writer, notable for his novels about the land, people and animals of outback Queensland....
(1885–1969) - Justine LarbalestierJustine LarbalestierJustine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
young adult fantasyFantasyFantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
, Magic or MadnessMagic or MadnessMagic or Madness is the first installment in Justine Larbalestier's Magic or Madness trilogy. The three main characters are Reason Cansino, Sarafina Cansino and Esmeralda Cansino....
(2005) - William Lawson (1876–1957)
- Simone LazarooSimone LazarooSimone Lazaroo is an Australian author. Born in Singapore, she migrated with her family to Western Australia as a young child. Her background is Eurasian. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia and teaches Creative Writing at Murdoch University....
- Kathy LetteKathy LetteKathy Lette is an Australian author who has written a number of bestselling books.Born in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the coauthor of Puberty Blues, a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls...
(born 1958) Puberty BluesPuberty BluesPuberty Blues is a 1981 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film is based on the 1979 novel Puberty Blues, by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, which is a proto-feminist teen novel about two 13 year-old girls from the Sutherland Shire in Sydney, Australia...
(1979) Girls' Night Out (1988) - Joan LindsayJoan LindsayJoan Lindsay, Lady Lindsay was an Australian author, best known for her "ambiguous and intriguing" novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.-Life:...
(1896–1984) - Norman LindsayNorman LindsayNorman Alfred William Lindsay was an Australian artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeler, and boxer. He was born in Creswick, Victoria....
(1879–1969) The Magic PuddingThe Magic PuddingThe Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff is an Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a comic fantasy, and a classic of Australian children's literature....
. Also a noted artist. - Amanda LohreyAmanda LohreyAmanda Francis Lillian Lohrey, , in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a writer, and novelist. She completed her education at the University of Tasmania before taking up a scholarship at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. From 1988 to 1994 she lectured in writing and textual studies at the...
(born 1947) - Joan LondonJoan London (Australian author)Joan Elizabeth London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller...
(born 1958) - Gabrielle LordGabrielle LordGabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime. She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers.-Life:Lord was born in Sydney...
(born 1946) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Angelo LoukakisAngelo LoukakisAngelo Loukakis is an Australian author. He was born in Australia, attended Fort Street High School, studied English Literature at the University of New South Wales, and acquired a Dip. Ed. from Sydney Teachers College and a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. He...
The Memory of Tides (2006) - Melissa LucashenkoMelissa LucashenkoMelissa Lucashenko is an Australian writer of adult literary fiction andliterary non-fiction who has also written two novels for teenagers.-Biography:...
- Dave LuckettDave LuckettDave Luckett is an Australian children's writer born in Stanmore, New South Wales. He has written three non-fiction books about cricket and medieval weapons and armor. He has also written three series of fantasy books as well as a number of standalone fantasy books. One of the series, The Rhianna...
(born 1951) children's fantasy, A Dark WinterA Dark WinterA Dark Winter is a 1998 fantasy novel by Dave Luckett. It follows the story of Wii de Parkin who along with Silvus and Sister Winterridge have set out to defeat the Dark armies and save the castle of Ys.-Background:...
(1997) - Morris LurieMorris LurieMorris Lurie is an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focuses on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.-Biography:Lurie was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938, to Arie and...
(born 1938) Seven Books for Grossman (1983), Patrick White AwardPatrick White AwardThe Patrick White Award is an annual literary prize established by Patrick White. White used his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature award to establish a trust for this prize....
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- Catherine Edith Macauley MartinCatherine Edith Macauley MartinCatherine Edith Macauley Martin was an Australian novelist who used the pseudonyms M. C., Mrs Alick MacLeod or anonymous....
(born 1847–1937) - Mardi McConnochieMardi McConnochieMardi McConnochie is an Australian author and playwright. She is the author of three novels, Coldwater , The Snow Queen , Fivestar , several plays and two books for children, Melissa, Queen of Evil and Dangerous Games .Born in Armidale, New South Wales, McConnochie was raised in Adelaide, South...
(born 1971) - Colleen McCulloughColleen McCulloughColleen McCullough-Robinson, , is an internationally acclaimed Australian author.-Life:McCullough was born in Wellington, in outback central west New South Wales, in 1937 to James and Laurie McCullough. Her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, her family moved...
(born 1937) The Thorn BirdsThe Thorn BirdsThe Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author.In 1983 it was adapted as a television mini-series that, during its television run 27–30 March, became the United States' second highest rated mini-series of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by... - Sandy McCutcheonSandy McCutcheonRobert Hamish McCutcheon , known as Sandy McCutcheon is an Australian author, playwright, actor, journalist and broadcaster.-Biography:...
(born 1947) - Meme McDonald
- Roger McDonaldRoger McDonaldRoger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....
(born 1941) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner for The Ballad of Desmond KaleThe Ballad of Desmond KaleThe Ballad of Desmond Kale is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Roger McDonald.-Dedication:For Lorna McDonaldwith love and thanksfor gifts of conversation, friendship, and exampleover a lifetime-External links:Reviews**... - Andrew McGahanAndrew McGahanAndrew McGahan is a bestselling Australian novelist, best known for his cult first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth.-Early life and education:...
(born 1966) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner for The White EarthThe White EarthThe White Earth is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Andrew McGahan.The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009.-Notes:... - Emily Maguire (born 1976)
- Hugh MackayHugh Mackay (social researcher)Hugh Mackay is the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Ipsos Mackay Report . He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He is a regular columnist in The Age and a regularly appearing commentator on radio and television. He is a graduate of Sydney Grammar School, the...
- Kenneth Seaforth MackenzieSeaforth Mackenzie (author)Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell Mackenzie , was an Australian poet and novelist....
(1913–1955) Dead Men Rising - Ronald McKieRonald McKieRonald Cecil Hamlyn McKie is an Australian novelist. He was born in 1909 in Toowoomba, Queensland. After receiving his education at the Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and China...
(1909–1991) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner for The Mango TreeThe Mango TreeThe Mango Tree is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Ronald McKie.-References:... - Jennifer MaidenJennifer MaidenJennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...
(born 1949) - Shane MaloneyShane maloneyShane Maloney born in Hamilton, Victoria is a Melbourne author best known as the creator of the Murray Whelan series of crime novels.-Life and career:...
Crime fiction - David MaloufDavid MaloufDavid George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
(born 1934) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner for The Great WorldThe Great WorldThe Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf.-Awards:*Festival Awards for Literature , National Fiction Award, 1992: winner*Prix Femina , Best Foreign Novel, 1991: winner... - Leonard MannLeonard Mann-Life:He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.-External links:*...
(1895–1981) - Frederic ManningFrederic ManningFrederic Manning was an Australian poet and novelist.-Biography:Born in Sydney, Manning was the son of local politician Sir William Patrick Manning. His family were Catholics, of Irish origin. A sickly child , Manning was educated exclusively at home...
(1882–1935) - Kathleen Mannington CaffynKathleen Mannington CaffynKathleen Mannington Caffyn was an Irish – Australian novelist.Kathleen was born in Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of William de Vere Hunt, and was related to Aubrey de Vere, the poet. She was educated by English and German governesses and moved to London when about 21 years of age...
(Circa 1855–1926) - Melina MarchettaMelina MarchettaMelina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher. She is the middle child of three daughters. Melina is best known as the author of Looking For Alibrandi. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004.- Biography :Melina Marchettaborn in Sydney on 25...
(born 1965) Looking For AlibrandiLooking For Alibrandi (novel)Looking for Alibrandi is the debut novel of Australian author Melina Marchetta, published in 1990. A film adaptation was made in 1999.-Plot summary:... - John MarsdenJohn Marsden (writer)John Marsden is an Australian writer, teacher and school principal. Marsden has had his books translated into nine languages including Swedish, Norwegian, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Spanish....
(born 1950) Best known for the Tomorrow series. - William Leonard MarshallWilliam Leonard MarshallWilliam Marshall is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series....
(born 1944) Detective fiction. Yellowthread Street - Matthew Mason (1960–) The Dream Saga (novel)
- Olga MastersOlga MastersOlga Masters née Lawler was an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Life:Olga Masters was born in Pambula, New South Wales, the second of eight children. Her early life was characterised by the poverty of the depression era, her family moving around the South Coast region in...
(1919–1986) - Peter MathersPeter MathersPeter Mathers was an Australian author and playwright.He came to Australia with his family as a child. He attended state school in Sydney and Sydney Technical College, where he studied agriculture...
(1931–2004) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner for TrapTrap (novel)Trap is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Peter Mathers.... - Gillian MearsGillian MearsGillian Mears is an Australian short story writer, and novelist.Her books, Ride a Cock Horse, and The Grass Sister won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, shortlist, in 1989, and 1996. The Mint Lawn won The Australian/Vogel Award....
(born 1964) The Grass Sister Commonwealth Writers Prize (Regional) 1996 - Louisa Anne MeredithLouisa Anne MeredithLouisa Anne Meredith , also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator.-Biography:...
(1812–1895) - Alex MillerAlex Miller (writer)Alexander McPhee Miller is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England to Scottish parents, he migrated to Australia at the age of 16. After working and travelling he graduated from the University of Melbourne in English and History in 1965...
(born 1936) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner for The Ancestor GameThe Ancestor GameThe Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1993: winner*Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award, 1993: winner...
and Journey to the Stone CountryJourney to the Stone CountryJourney to the Stone Country is a 2002 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.-Awards:*Tasmania Pacific Region Prize, Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize, 2005: shortlisted... - Drusilla ModjeskaDrusilla Modjeska- Life :Drusilla Modjeska was born in England and lived in Papua New Guinea before arriving in Australia in 1971. She studied at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales completing a PhD which was published as Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945...
(born 1946) The Orchard (1994) - Ian MoffittIan MoffittIan Moffitt was an Australian journalist and novelist best known for his best-selling novel The Retreat Of Radiance....
(1926–2000) - James MoloneyJames MoloneyJames "Jim" Moloney is an Australian children's author who has written more than 30 books including The Book of Lies, The Gracey Trilogy, and A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove, which won the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award in 1997...
(born 1954) - Frank MoorhouseFrank MoorhouseFrank Moorhouse is an acclaimed Australian writer with a growing international reputation. He has won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing....
(born 1938) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner for Dark PalaceDark PalaceDark Palace is a 2000 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Frank Moorhouse. It forms the second part of the author's Palais de Nations series, following Grand Days in 1993.-Reviews:*"API Review of Books"... - Sally MorganSally Morgan (artist)Sally Jane Morgan is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Morgan's works are on display in numerous private and public collections in both Australia and around the world.-Early life:...
(born 1951) My Place - Jaclyn MoriartyJaclyn MoriartyJaclyn Moriarty is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature.-Biography:Moriarty was raised in the northern suburbs of Sydney. She has five sisters and one brother. Two of her sisters, Liane Moriarty and Nicola, are also novelists. Moriarty studied English at the University...
Young adult fiction. - MudroorooMudroorooColin Thomas Johnson, better known by his nom de plume, Mudrooroo is a novelist, poet, essayist and playwright. He has been described as one of the most enigmatic literary figures of Australia and since 2001 he has been living in Kapan, Nepal...
(formerly Colin Johnson) (born ) Wild Cat FallingWild Cat FallingWild Cat Falling is a novel published in 1965, in Australia... - Gerald MurnaneGerald Murnane- Life :Murnane was born in Coburg, Melbourne, and has almost never left the state of Victoria. Parts of his childhood were spent in Bendigo and the Western District. In 1956 he matriculated from De La Salle College Malvern....
(born 1939) - Joanna Murray-SmithJoanna Murray-SmithJoanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne based playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.-Biography:...
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- Alice Nannup (1911–1995) When the Pelican Laughed
- Simpson NewlandSimpson NewlandSimpson Newland CMG , pastoralist, author and politician, was a pioneer in Australia who made significant contributions to development around the Murray River. He was also an author of practical works and novels....
(1835–1925) - Nerida NewtonNerida NewtonNerida Newton is an Australian novelist who first came to light in 2002 with her first novel, The Lambing Flat, which won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the The Australian/Vogel Literary Award...
(born 1972) The Lambing FlatThe Lambing FlatThe Lambing Flat is a novel written by Australian author Nerida Newton and was first published in 2003. It was Newton's first novel. She has since written a second novel, Death of a Whaler.... - John Henry NicholsonJohn Henry NicholsonJohn Henry Nicholson was an Australian teacher and writer.Nicholson was the son of John Nicholson, an oriental scholar of distinction, and the first English friend of Ludwig Leichhardt Nicholson was born at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, was educated at Croft House academy, and emigrated to New...
(1838–1923) - D'Arcy NilandD'Arcy NilandD'Arcy Francis Niland was an Australian novelist and short story writer, best known for The Shiralee.-Life and writing career:...
(1919–1967) The Shiralee - Hume NisbetHume NisbetJames Hume Nisbet was a Scottish-Australian author and artist.Nisbet was born at Stirling, Scotland. At 16 years of age he came to Australia and stayed about seven years, during which he travelled widely. On returning to Scotland he was for eight years art master in the Watt College and the old...
(1849–1923) - Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (writer)Michael John Noonan was an Australian / New Zealand novelist and radio script writer...
(1921–2000) The December Boys - Louis NowraLouis NowraLouis Nowra is an Australian writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.He is best known as one of Australia's leading playwrights...
(born 1950) Better known as a playwright - Judy NunnJudy NunnJudy Nunn is an Australian actress and author.-Acting career:Her breakout role was as the scheming bisexual reporter Vicky Stafford in the risque soap opera The Box. Her character became a popular cult figure in the series. Nunn continued in the role for the show's entire 1974–1977 run...
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- Elizabeth O'ConnerElizabeth O'ConnerElizabeth O'Conner under the name Barbara Lowe is an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney.She married in 1942 and moved to the...
(born 1913) The Irishman, 1960 Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner - John O'GradyJohn O'GradyJohn Patrick O'Grady was an Australian writer. His works include the comic novel They're a Weird Mob and the poem The Integrated Adjective, sometimes known as Tumba-bloody-rumba.- Pseudonym :...
(1907–1981) They're a Weird MobThey're a Weird MobThey're a Weird Mob is a 1966 film based on the novel of the same name by John O'Grady under the pen name "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book. It was one of the last collaborations of the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger... - Wendy OrrWendy OrrWendy Orr is a Canadian-born Australian writer born in Edmonton, Alberta. She is probably best known as the author of Nim's Island, which was made into a film in 2008 starring Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler.-External links:...
Canadian-born Australian children's writer, of Nim's IslandNim's IslandNim's Island is a 2008 Australian adventure-fantasy film directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin and starring Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. The story is based on the book Nim's Island by Wendy Orr. A young girl, Nim, seeks help from the author of her favorite adventure...
and others - Ouyang YuOuyang YuOuyang Yu is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic.Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University which he completed in 1995. Since then his literary output has been prodigious...
(born 1955) Expatriate ChineseChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
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- Margaret Packham HargraveMargaret Packham HargraveMargaret Packham Hargrave is an Australian writer. She is the author of Jake's Luck and A Woman of Air – winner of the inaugural Elle/Random House Fiction Prize.-Life and career:...
(born 1941) A Woman of Air - Vance and Nettie PalmerVance and Nettie PalmerVance and Nettie Palmer were two of Australia's best-known literary figures from the 1920s to the 1950s. Edward Vivian "Vance" Palmer was a novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic. Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer was a poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic...
Also dramatists and critics. - Ruth ParkRuth ParkRuth Park, AM was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow , and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat , which also spawned a book series .-Personal history:Park was born in...
(born 1923) The Harp in the SouthHarp in the SouthThe Harp in the South is a novel by New Zealand born Australian author Ruth Park. Published in 1948, it portrays the life of a Catholic Irish Australian family living in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, which was at that time an inner city slum.- Characters :Hughie Darcy:Married to Margaret Darcy... - Pyotr PatrushevPyotr PatrushevPyotr Patrushev is a Russian author who escaped a death sentence by swimming from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea border in 1962....
(born 1942) Project Nirvana - Elliot PerlmanElliot PerlmanElliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...
(born 1964) Three DollarsThree DollarsThree Dollars is a 2005 Australian film, directed by Robert Connolly and based on a novel of the same name by Elliot Perlman. It won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.... - James PhelanJames Clancy PhelanJames Clancy Phelan is an Australian author, published as James Phelan. His first fiction novel, Fox Hunt, went into reprint in its first month.-Biography:Phelan was born in Victoria, Australia...
(born 1979) "Literati", "Fox Hunt", "Patriot Act", "Blood Oil". - Nancy PhelanNancy PhelanNancy Phelan was an Australian writer who published over 25 books, including novels, biographies, memoirs, travel books and a cookbook...
(born 1913) Also memoirist, 2004 Patrick White AwardPatrick White AwardThe Patrick White Award is an annual literary prize established by Patrick White. White used his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature award to establish a trust for this prize....
winner - D.B.C. Pierre (born 1961) 2003 Booker Prize winner for Vernon God LittleVernon God LittleVernon God Little is a novel by DBC Pierre. It was his debut novel and won the Booker Prize in 2003.-Plot introduction:The title character is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives in a small town in the U.S. state of Texas...
- Doris Pilkington GarimaraDoris Pilkington GarimaraDoris Pilkington Garimara AM is an Australian author. She is best known for her 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled for nine...
(born 1937) Follow the Rabbit-Proof FenceFollow the Rabbit-Proof FenceFollow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian book by Doris Pilkington. Based on a true story, the book is a personal account of an Indigenous Australian family's experiences as members of the "Stolen Generation" – the forced removal of mixed-race children from their families during the... - Dorothy PorterDorothy PorterDorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...
(1954–2008) Verse novelVerse novelA verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a...
s, The Monkey's MaskThe Monkey's MaskThe Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect in the disappearance of a young woman... - Hal PorterHal PorterHarold Edward Porter was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.Porter was born in Albert Park, Victoria, grew up in Bairnsdale, Victoria and worked as a journalist, teacher and librarian. A car accident just before the outbreak of war prevented him from serving in World...
(1911–1984) The Tilted Cross, Better known for memoir The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony - Rosa Campbell PraedRosa Campbell PraedRosa Campbell Praed , often credited as Mrs Campbell Praed , was an Australian novelist in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her large bibliography covered multiple genres, and books for children as well as adults...
(1851–1935) - Katharine Susannah PrichardKatharine Susannah PrichardKatharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.-Biography:...
(1883–1969) The Goldfields Trilogy, The Roaring Nineties (1946) etc. - Boori Monty Prior
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- Matthew ReillyMatthew ReillyMatthew John Reilly is an Australian action thriller writer. His novels are noted for their fast pace, twisting plots and intense action.- Biography :...
(born 1974) Action/thriller - Henry Handel RichardsonHenry Handel RichardsonHenry Handel Richardson, the pseudonym used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, was an Australian author. She took the name "Henry Handel" because at that time, many people did not take women's writing seriously, so she used a male name...
(aka. Ethel Robertson) (1870–1946) The Fortunes of Richard MahonyThe Fortunes of Richard MahonyThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a three-part novel by Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson. It consists of Australia Felix , The Way Home , and Ultima Thule . It was collected in 1930 under the title by which it is now best known... - Gregory David RobertsGregory David RobertsGregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980, and fled to India where he lived for ten years.-Life:Roberts had become addicted to heroin after his marriage ended,...
(born 1952) ShantaramShantaram (novel)Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison flees to India where he lives for 10 years... - Peter RobbPeter RobbPeter Robb is an Australian author.Robb spent his formative years in Australia and New Zealand, and between 1978 and 1992 he spent most of his time in Naples and southern Italy, interspersed with sojourns in Brazil. At the end of 1992 he returned to Sydney.His first book, Midnight in Sicily, was...
(born 1946) Midnight in Sicily MM (book)M is a book by Australian author Peter Robb about the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. First published in 1998 in Australia by Duffy & Snellgrove, the book provoked controversy on its being published in Britain in 2000.... - Deborah RobertsonDeborah RobertsonDeborah Robertson is an Australian novelist, poet and journalist. She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia and completed a degree in Creative Writing at the Curtin University of Technology...
(born 1959) CarelessCareless (novel)-Awards:*International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted *Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2007: shortlisted*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2007: shortlisted... - Alice Grant RosmanAlice Grant Rosman-Early career:She was born in Kapunda, South Australia. She had one sister called Mary and she attended St Mary's Convent until 1889. In 1901 she started the Girl's Realm Guide in Adelaide. The Girls' Realm Guild published one of Rosman's books, "The Young Queen"...
(1882–1961) - Jacqui Ross (born 1965) Chick litChick litChick lit is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly. The genre sold well during the 1990s and 2000s, with chick lit titles topping bestseller lists and the creation of imprints devoted entirely to chick lit...
, Messy Business - Jennifer RoweJennifer RoweJennifer June Rowe is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson...
(Emily Rodda) (born 1948) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
& children's fantasyFantasyFantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
, Deltora Quest. - Penelope Rowe (born 1946)
- Tracy RyanTracy RyanTracy Ryan is an Australian poet and novelist. She has also worked as an editor, publisher, translator, and academic.-Life:Tracy Ryan was born in Western Australia, where she grew up as part of a large family...
(born 1964) Novelist, poet and translator - David Rollins (born 30 July 1958), Novelist, The Zero Option
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- Eva SallisEva SallisEva Sallis is an Australian novelist. She has won several awards, including The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Literary Award for her first novel Hiam.-Life:...
(born 1964) (Eva Hornung) Haim (1997) Australian/Vogel Literary AwardThe Australian/Vogel Literary AwardThe Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia... - Philip SalomPhilip SalomPhilip Salom is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.-Biography:Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction in the South West region of Western Australia. Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during his high school years...
(born 1950) Also poet - G K SaundersG K SaundersGeorge Kenneth "Ken" Saunders was a New Zealand writer, born in England, who had a substantial career in Australia.After leaving Canterbury University, he secured a job writing scripts for radio 3ZD Christchurch....
(born 1910) The Stranger - Georgia Savage
- Henry SaveryHenry SaveryHenry Savery was a convict transported to Port Arthur, Tasmania and Australia's first novelist. It is generally agreed that his writing is more important for its historical value than its literary merit....
(1791–1842) Convicted forger and Australia's first novelist - Conrad SayceConrad SayceConrad Harvey Sayce was a British born Australian architect and author.Conrad Sayce was born in Hereford and educated in England before migrating to Australia. He practised architecture in Melbourne with Rodney Alsop and the firm of Alsop & Sayce won the Hackett Competition for the design of...
(1888–1935) Outback adventure novels - Wendy ScarfeWendy ScarfeWendy Elizabeth Scarfe is an Australian novelist, biographer and poet.Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Scarfe gained qualifications from both the University of Melbourne and the Associated Teachers' Training College....
(born 1933) Novelist, biographer and poet - Katherine ScholesKatherine ScholesKatherine Anne Scholes is an Australian writer. She was born in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania where her parents were English missionaries, and spent most of her childhood there before moving to England and then Tasmania....
(born 1959) The Stone Angel - John A. ScottJohn A. ScottJohn Alan Scott is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic....
(born 1948) Also poet, Warra Warra, What I Have Written (1994) - Kim ScottKim ScottKim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...
(born 1957) BenangBenangBenang is a 1999 Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Kim Scott. The award was shared with Drylands by Thea Astley.Reviewing the novel for The Hindu, K... - Rosie ScottRosie ScottRosie Scott is a New Zealand novelist now based in Sydney, Australia.-Life and work:Scott completed an MA in English at Victoria University of Wellington and a Doctorate at the University of Western Sydney and worked in social work, publishing, journalism and acting during her literary career...
(born 1948) - Alan SeymourAlan SeymourAlan Seymour , is an Australian playwright and author. He was educated at Perth Modern School, leaving at 15 after failing to complete the Junior Certificate. He found work as a radio announcer in a commercial radio station 6PM. During his two years there he wrote a number of short radio plays that...
(born 1927) Mainly playwright - Thomas Shapcott (born 1935) Poet, novelist and playwright, 2000 Patrick White AwardPatrick White AwardThe Patrick White Award is an annual literary prize established by Patrick White. White used his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature award to establish a trust for this prize....
winner - Charles Herbert Shaw (1900–1955) Journalist and detective fiction
- Patricia ShawPatricia Shaw (novelist)Patricia Shaw is an Australian novelist and non-fiction writer. She currently lives on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in northeast Australia.-Biography:...
(born 1929) River of the Sun (1991) and The Opal Seekers (1996) - Nevil ShuteNevil ShuteNevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...
(1899–1960) A Town Like AliceA Town Like AliceA Town Like Alice is a novel by the British author Nevil Shute about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war....
(1950), On the Beach (1957) - Craig SilveyCraig SilveyCraig Silvey is an Australian novelist and musician.Silvey grew up on an orchard at Dwellingup in the south-west of Western Australia. He currently lives in Fremantle.-Literary career:...
(born 1982) Rhubarb - Helen de Guerry SimpsonHelen de Guerry SimpsonHelen de Guerry Simpson was an Australian novelist.-Life and career:Simpson was born in Sydney into a family that had been settled in New South Wales for over 100 years...
(1897–1940) - Lindsay SimpsonLindsay SimpsonLindsay Jane Simpson is an Australian journalist, a university teacher and a writer of crime fiction. Born in Scotland, Simpson arrived in Australia in 1976.Simpson worked as an investigative journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald for twelve years...
(born 1957) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Tim SinclairTim SinclairTim Sinclair is an Australian poet and novelist resident in Sydney.Best known for the verse novel Nine Hours North , he is also the author of the poetry collections Re:reading the dictionary and Vapour Trails, and a collaborator on the spoken word concept...
(born 1972) - Catherine Helen SpenceCatherine Helen SpenceCatherine Helen Spence was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide...
(1825–1910) Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever (1854) - Eleanor SpenceEleanor SpenceEleanor Spence was an award-winning Australian author of novels for young adults and older children. Her books explore a wide range of issues, including Australian history, religion, autism, bigotry, materialism and alienation. She was a Member of the Order of Australia.-Biography:Eleanor Rachel...
(born 1928-2008) Young adults author - Ken SpillmanKen SpillmanKen Spillman is a writer based in Perth, Western Australia. Best known as a prolific author of books for children and young adults, his work has spanned diverse genres including poetry, sports writing and literary criticism...
(born 1959) - Kimberley StarrKimberley StarrKimberley Starr is a novelist who moved to Australia as a young child. She began her education at the Armidale Demonstration School, moving on to Garran Primary School, and Padua Catholic High School, ACT , before completing her secondary education at Loreto Normanhurst...
(born 1970) The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies - Nicolette StaskoNicolette StaskoNicolette Stasko is a contemporary Australian poet, novelist and non-fiction writer of United States origin.Nicolette Stasko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania to Polish and Hungarian parents. She completed a BA with honours in English at Pennsylvania State University and an MA in education at...
(born 1950) The Invention of Everyday Life (2007) - Christina SteadChristina SteadChristina Stead was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations.-Biography:...
(1902–1983) The Man Who Loved ChildrenThe Man Who Loved ChildrenThe Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. It wasn't until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread critical acclaim and popularity. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language... - Gordon Neil StewartGordon Neil StewartGordon Neil Stewart was an Australian writer.Stewart was born in Melbourne into a wealthy Australian family with pastoral interests in the Bathurst district of New South Wales. He was a great grandson of Major General William Stewart Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1827...
(1912–1999) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Madeleine St JohnMadeleine St JohnMadeleine St John was an Australian writer, the first Australian woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction .-Biography:...
(1941–2006) Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted The Essence of the Thing (1997) - Dal StivensDal StivensDal Stivens was an Australian writer.After serving in the army during the war, from 1944 to 1949, Stivens was on the staff of the Australian Department of Information. He served in the press office at Australia House in London until 1950...
(1911–1997) Jimmy Brockett 1981 Patrick White Award winner - Louis StoneLouis StoneLouis Stone was an Australian novelist and playwright.Stone was born in Leicester, England, baptized as William Lewis, son of William Stone, a basketmaker, and his wife Emma, née Tewkes....
(1871–1935) Jonah - Randolph StowRandolph StowJulian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...
(born 1935) To the Islands (1958) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
; Patrick White Award (1979); The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea - Donald StuartDonald Stuart (novelist)Donald Stuart was an Australian novelist whose works include stories with Aboriginal backgrounds, and a series recounting his experience as a POW in Burma in World War II.-Early career:...
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- Peter TemplePeter TemplePeter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...
(born 1946) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Kylie TennantKylie TennantKathleen Kylie Tennant AO was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian.-Life and career:Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College in Manly and Sydney University, though she left without graduating...
(1912–1988) The Battlers, Ride on Stranger - Colin ThieleColin ThieleColin Milton Thiele, AC was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, the Sun on the Stubble series, and February Dragon.- Biography :Thiele was born in Eudunda in South Australia to a Barossa German...
(1920–2006) Storm Boy - Carrie TiffanyCarrie TiffanyCarrie Tiffany is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger.-Biography:Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia...
(born 1965) Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living - P. L. TraversP. L. TraversPamela Lyndon Travers OBE was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about the mystical and magical nanny Mary Poppins...
(1899–1996) Mary PoppinsMary PoppinsMary Poppins is a series of children's books written by P. L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London and into the Banks' household to care for their... - Rachael TreasureRachael TreasureRachael Treasure is an Australian journalist, sheep dog breeder and trainer, author and bestselling novelist She resides with her husband and children on a sheep farm at Runnymede near the small Tasmanian farming community of Levendale, where they breed and train kelpies, border collies and waler...
(born ?) Jillaroo (2000) - Penelope Trevor (born 1960) Listening for Small Sounds
- Christos TsiolkasChristos Tsiolkas-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....
(born 1965) Loaded - Lee TullochLee TullochLee Ann Tulloch is an Australian-born journalist and author.She was born in Melbourne, and has a degree in English Literature from Melbourne University. She has worked as a researcher in Federal Politics. She was arts features editor for Vogue Australia from 1978 to 1982, and editor-in-chief of...
Fabulous NobodiesFabulous NobodiesFabulous Nobodies is Australian author and fashion journalist Lee Tulloch's first novel. Published in 1989, it is set in the bitchy, trashy nightclub scene of New York... - Ethel TurnerEthel TurnerEthel Turner was an Australian novelist and children's writer.She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah Jane Burwell with two daughters . A year later, Sarah Jane married Henry Turner, who was twenty years older and had six...
(1872–1958) Seven Little AustraliansSeven Little AustraliansSeven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot and flighty stepmother Esther.In 1994 the novel was the only book by an...
(1894) - George TurnerGeorge Turner (writer)George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
(1916–1997) The Cupboard Under the StairsThe Cupboard Under the StairsThe Cupboard Under the Stairs is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author George Turner. This novel shared the award with The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley....
(1962) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
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- Arthur UpfieldArthur UpfieldArthur William Upfield was an Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte of the Queensland Police Force, a half-caste Aborigine....
(1890–1964) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
featuring the part-aboriginal detective 'Boney'; The Sands of Windee (1931)
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- Lin Van HekLin Van HekLin Van Hek is an Australian writer, member of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women.Van Hek was born in Melbourne but lived in Europe and India for some years...
- Frederick Bert Vickers (1903–????)
- Mary Theresa VidalMary Theresa VidalMary Theresa Vidal was a British-Australian writer described as Australia's first female novelist.Mary was the daughter of Britton William Johnson and his wife, Mary Theresa, daughter of P. W. Furse. She was a sister of William Johnson, author of Ionica, who took the name of Cory in 1872. She...
(1815–1869) - Paul VoermansPaul VoermansPaul Voermans is a science fiction author, community internetwork activist and performer. A strong stream of his art is comic, though dark and surreal at times...
(1960) Science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
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- Brenda WalkerBrenda WalkerBrenda Walker is an Australian writer. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She is now Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia...
(born 1957) The Wing of Night - Dave WarnerDave WarnerDavid Robert "Dave" Warner is an Australian rock musician, author and screenwriter.-Biography:Dave Warner was born in Bicton, Western Australia in 1953. He attended Aquinas College and then the University of Western Australia where he graduated with a B.A. , majoring in psychology...
(Born 1953) Crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred... - Judah WatenJudah WatenJudah Leon Waten AM was an Australian novelist who was at one time seen as the voice of Australian migrant writing....
(1912–1985) - E. L. Grant WatsonE. L. Grant WatsonElliot Lovegood Grant Watson was a writer and biologist whose works combine the scrutiny of a scientist with the insight of the poet...
(1885–1970) - Sam Watson (born 1952) The Kadaitcha Sung
- Archie WellerArchie WellerArchie Weller is an Australian award winning writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.Weller was born in Cranbrook, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm called Woonenup in the South west of that state....
(born 1957) The Day of the Dog - Morris WestMorris WestMorris Langlo West AO was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate , The Shoes of the Fisherman , and The Clowns of God . His books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide...
(1916–1999) The Shoes of the FishermanThe Shoes of the FishermanThe Shoes of the Fisherman is a 1963 novel by the Australian author Morris West, as well as a 1968 film based on the novel.The book reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for adult fiction on 30 June 1963, and became the #1 bestselling novel in the United States for that year, according... - Herb WhartonHerb WhartonHerb Wharton is an Indigenous Australian former stockman and now internationally recognised poet and novelist.A Murri man, his maternal grandmother was Kooma, and both grandfathers Irish...
(born 1936) - Nadia WheatleyNadia WheatleyNadia Wheatley is an award winning Australian writer of children’s fiction and non-fiction, adult non-fiction and biographies, and newspaper and journal articles. Her works often focus on "the difficulties faced by Aborigines or non-English-speaking newcomers to Australia, ... environmental issues...
(born 1949) Children's fiction - Patrick WhitePatrick WhitePatrick Victor Martindale White , an Australian author, is widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative...
(1912–1990) Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature (1973) for The Eye of the StormThe Eye of the StormThe Eye of the Storm is the ninth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to farewell her in her final moments...
; inaugural winner, Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
1957 – VossVossis a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen....
. - Sonny WhitelawSonny WhitelawSonny Whitelaw is the author of several contemporary ecothriller and speculative fiction novels including five Stargate novels....
(born 1956) Science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
, (StargateStargateStargate is a adventure military science fiction franchise, initially conceived by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Stargate. It was originally released on October 28, 1994, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco, and became a hit, grossing nearly...
series) - Lili WilkinsonLili WilkinsonLili Wilkinson is an Australian author. She has also written for several publications, including The Age, and managed , a website for teenagers about books, as part of her role at the Centre For Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria until January 2011.-Early life:Wilkinson was born in...
(born 1981) - Eric Willmot (born 1936)
- Darren WilliamsDarren Williams (author)Darren Williams is an Australian novelist.Darren Williams is best known for his novel Swimming in Silk which won the prestigious Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1994. The book has also received much critical acclaim...
(born 1967) Angel RockAngel RockAngel Rock is a crime novel by Darren Williams, first published in 2002.-Plot summary:The novel is set against the backdrop of a fictional Australian bush town, Angel Rock, during the late 1960s...
, 1994 Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner - Anne WilsonAnne WilsonLady Anne Wilson was an Australian poet and novelist.Wilson was born in 1848 at Greenvale, Victoria, the daughter of Robert Adams. In 1874, she married James Glenny Wilson and went to New Zealand. Her husband, a well-known public man, was knighted in 1915...
(1848–1930) - Ben WinchBen WinchBenjamin Roy Winch is an Australian writer and musician.Brought up in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Winch performed in the alternative rock band Movement from 1990-92 before starting to write fiction....
(born 1973) - Tara June WinchTara June WinchTara June Winch is an Australian writer of Aboriginal and European descent. Her first book, Swallow the Air, won several major Australian literary awards.-Life:...
(1983) Swallow the Air - Gerard WindsorGerard WindsorGerard Charles Windsor is an Australian author and literary critic. He was dux of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in both 1961 and 1962, where, like Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. He trained as a Jesuit from the age of 18 to 24. He studied Arts at the Australian National...
(born 1944) Heaven Where The Bachelors Sit - Tim WintonTim WintonTimothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....
(born 1960) Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
winner 1984 ShallowsShallowsShallows is a 1984 novel by Australian author Tim Winton about whaling.Shallows won the 1984 Miles Franklin Award. Carolyn See called it "a dark masterpiece that ranks with "Moby-Dick."...
, 1992 CloudstreetCloudstreetCloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, in a suburb of Perth, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963...
, 2002 Dirt MusicDirt MusicDirt Music by Tim Winton is a Booker prize shortlisted novel from 2001 and winner of the 2002 Miles Franklin Award. The harsh, unyielding climate of Western Australia dominates the actions and events of this thriller.-Plot summary:...
, 2009 Breath - Amy WittingAmy WittingAmy Witting was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers, whose work was full of the atmosphere and colour or times past".-Life:Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, and was...
(1918–2001) I for Isobel, 1993 Patrick White AwardPatrick White AwardThe Patrick White Award is an annual literary prize established by Patrick White. White used his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature award to establish a trust for this prize....
winner - Charlotte WoodCharlotte WoodCharlotte Wood is an Australian novelist.Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. She has a background in journalism and has also taught writing at a variety of levels. She currently lives in Sydney. She has a Master of Creative Arts from UTS and a BA from Charles Sturt University. Her new novel,...
(born 1965) The Submerged Cathedral - Sue WoolfeSue WoolfeSue Woolfe is an Australian author, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and documentary film-maker.Woolfe was raised in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and completed tertiary studies at the University of Sydney and the University of New England. Her first novel Painted Woman was runner-up in the ABC...
(born 1950) Leaning Towards Infinity - Alexis WrightAlexis WrightAlexis Wright is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria....
(born 1950) CarpentariaCarpentaria (novel)Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006, and went on to win Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in mid-2007....
2007 Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
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