List of Australian writers

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Australia has only existed as a nation in its own right for a little over 100 years , so Australian literature is still relatively young. Most Australian writers are largely unknown in Germany, even if the writer Patrick White was a Nobel Prize winner.

In the following lists the most important authors are given with their biographies and their most famous works.

Authors

Surname Life dates Works
Glenda Adams 1939-2007 Longleg, The Tempest of Clemenza, Dancing on Coral
Jessica Anderson 1916-2010 Tirra Lirra by the River, The Impersonators, Stories from the Warm Zone
Tom Arden 1961-2015 Moon Escape
Thea Astley 1925-2004 The Well Dressed Explorer, The Slow Natives, The Acolyte, Drylands
Murray Bail * 1941 Homesickness, Holden's Performance, Eucalyptus
Marjorie Barnard 1897-1987
Michael Gerard Bauer * 1955 The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ismael!
Barbara Baynton 1857-1929 Bush Studies
Randolph Bedford 1868-1941
Geoff Bingham 1919-2009
Carmel Bird * 1940 The Bluebird Café, The White Garden, Red Shoes
Rolf Boldrewood 1826-1915 Robbery under arms
Guy Boothby 1867-1905 Dr. Nikola
Alex Buzo 1944-2006 Norm and Ahmed, Rooted, Macquarie: a Play, Coralie Lansdowne Says No.
Trudi Canavan * 1969 Black Magician Trilogy, Age of the Five
Peter Carey * 1943 Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda, Jack Maggs, Bliss, Die Steuerfahnderin, True History of the Kelly Gang
Gavin Casey 1907-1964
Donald Ernest Charlwood 1915-2012
Marcus Clarke 1846-1881 For the Term of His Natural Life
James Clavell 1924-1994 King Rat , Shogun , Noble House
Kenneth Cook 1929-1987 Wake in Fright
Sandy Curtis * 1948 The valley of fear, The river of oblivion, In the sea of ​​fear, On the edge of vengeance
Frank Dalby Davison 1893-1970
Liam Davison 1957-2014 The Velodrome, Soundings, The White Woman
Robert Dessaix * 1944 Night letters
Garry Disher * 1949 Dragon man, dirt, flight frenzy, greed, behind the islands, ambush, arbitrariness, Porta Villa Blues, snapshot
Robert Drewe * 1943 The Savage Crows, The Bodysurfers, Grace
Nick Earls * 1963 Zigzag Street, 48 Shades of Brown, Monica Bloom
Greg Egan * 1961 Oceanic, distress
Sumner Locke Elliott 1917-1991 Careful, He Might Hear You, Rusty Bugles
Jennifer Fallon * 1959 The Tide Lords, Demon Child Trilogy, The Hythrun Chronicles
Richard Flanagan * 1961 Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping
David Foster * 1949 The Pure Land, Moonlite, The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover, The Glade within the Grove
Miles Franklin 1879-1954 My Brilliant Career
Joseph Furphy 1843-1912 Such is life
Helen Garner * 1942 Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino
Peter Goldsworthy * 1951 maestro
Germaine Greer * 1939 The Female Eunuch, Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
Kate Grenville * 1950 Lilian's Story, Dreamhouse, Dark Places, The Idea of ​​Perfection, The Secret River, The Lieutenant, Sarah Thornhill
Jeannie Gunn 1870-1961 The Little Black Princess
Rodney Hall * 1935 Just Relations, The Grisly Wife, The Island in the Mind
Barbara Hanrahan 1939-1991 The Scent of Eucalyptus, Sea-Green, Dove, Flawless Jade
Traci Harding * 1964 The Ancient Future, The Alchemist Key
Richard Harland * 1947 The Black Crusade, Catabolic Magic, The Greater Death of Saito Saku
Beverley Harper 1941-2002 Storms over Africa, Edge of the Rain, Echo of an Angry God
Sonya Hartnett * 1968 Of a Boy, Surrender, Landscape with Animals
Xavier Herbert 1901-1984 Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country
Dorothy Coade Hewett 1923-2002 Alice in Wormland
Janette Turner Hospital * 1942 Charades, The Last Magician, Oyster
Adrian Hyland * 1954 Diamond Dove, Gunshot Road
Ion Idriess 1889-1979 Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland
David Ireland * 1927 The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, The Glass Canoe, A Woman of the Future
Ian Irvine * 1950 The View from the Mirror, The Well of Echoes, The Song of the Tears
Charlotte Jay 1919-1996 Beat Not the Bones
George Henry Johnston 1912-1970 My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothing
Elizabeth Jolley 1923-2007 Mr Scobie's Riddle, My Father's Moon, The Orchard Thieves, Lovesong
Barry Jonsberg * 1951 The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull
Thomas Keneally * 1935 Schindler's List , Bring Larks and Heroes, A Dutiful Daughter, Passenger, A River Town
Henry Kingsley 1830-1876 The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn, Ravenshoe, Stretton
Christopher John Koch 1932-2013 The Boys in the Island, Highway to A War
Michelle de Kretser * 1957 The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, The Lost Dog
Richard Lane 1918-2008
Eve Langley 1908-1974 The pea pickers
Julia Leigh * 1970 The hunter , unrest
Kathy Lette * 1958 Puberty blues
Joan Lindsay 1896-1984 Picnic at Hanging Rock
Shane Maloney * 1953 The Brush Off
David Malouf * 1934 Johnno, The Great World, Dream Stuff
Colleen McCullough 1937-2015 The thorn birds
Ronald McKie 1909-1991 The mango tree
Alex Miller * 1936 Love song
Drusilla Modjeska * 1946 The Orchard
Frank Moorhouse * 1938 Grand Days, Dark Palace
Sally Morgan * 1951 My place
Kate Morton * 1976 The Shifting Fog, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours
Gerald Murnane * 1939 The Plains
Max Murray 1901-1956 The Voice of the Corpse, The Neat Little Corpse, The Right Honorable Corpse
D'Arcy Niland 1919-1967 The Shiralee
Garth Nix * 1963 The Ragwitch, Shade's Children, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) 1920-1993 We are going, The Dawn is at hand
Malla Nunn * 19 ** A Beautiful Place to Die
Charles Osborne 1927-2017
Ruth Park 1923-2010 A Power of Roses; One-a-pecker, two-a-pecker; Swords and Crowns and Rings, The Muddle-Headed Wombat
Andrew Barton Paterson (Banjo Paterson) 1864-1941 Waltzing Matilda , The Man From Snowy River
Steven Paulsen * 1955
Brian Penton 1904-1951 Landtakers , Inheritors
Doris Pilkington 1937-2014 Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter , Follow the rabbit-proof fence . St. Lucia, Qld
Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883-1969 Coonardoo
Matthew Reilly * 1974 Ice station
Henry Handel Richardson 1870-1946 The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Steele Rudd 1868-1935
Henry Savery 1791-1842 Quintus Servinton
Thomas Shapcott * 1935 Theater of Darkness
Patricia Shaw * 1929 River of the Sun, The Opal Seekers, The Five Winds
Christina Stead 1902-1983 House of all Nations, The Man Who Loved Children, The Little Hotel
Amanda Stewart * 1959
Dal Stivens 1911-1997 Jimmy Brockett
Randolph Stow 1935-2010 A Haunted Land, To the Islands, Tourmaline, Visitants
Peter Temple 1946-2018 Forgotten Guilt (Jack Irish), An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, Cold August
Christos Tsiolkas * 1965 Mapping Desire - Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded
George Turner 1916-1997 The Sea and Summer, Genetic Soldier
Arthur W. Upfield 1890-1964 Death of a Lake and various other crime novels about Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte
Alan Villiers 1903-1982
Peter Watt * 1949 Eden, Who Follows the Wind, Papua, Shadow of the Osprey, On the Wings of the Eagle, Cry of the Curlew
Morris L. West 1916-1999 Children of the Sun, Daughter of Silence, The Ambassador, Vanishing Point
Osmar White 1909-1991 Green Armor, Conqueror's Road
Patrick White 1912-1990 Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Twyborn Affair, Memoirs of Many in One
David Williamson * 1942 Playwright
Tim Winton * 1960 To Open Swimmer, Cloudstreet, The Riders, Lockie Leonard series

poet

Surname Life dates Works
Arthur Henry Adams 1872-1936
Francis Adams 1862-1893 Songs of the Army of the Night
Christopher Brennan 1870-1932 Poems
Luke Davies * 1962 also novels and scripts
Jack Davis 1917-2000 No Sugar, Jagardoo - Poems from Aboriginal Australia
CJ Dennis 1876-1938 A Sentimental Bloke, Melbourne Streets
Edward Dyson 1865-1931 Rhymes from the Mines and other Lines
Barron Fields 1786-1846 First Fruits of Australian Poetry
Mary Gilmore 1865-1962
Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870 Wolf and Hound, Bush Ballads
Charles Harpur 1813-1868
Kevin Hart * 1954
AD Hope 1907-2000
Henry Kendall 1839-1882 Bell Birds
Henry Lawson 1867-1922 The Days While We Went Swimming, The Teams, also short stories (While the Billy Boiled)
Dorothea Mackellar 1885-1968 My country
Les Murray 1938-2019 Fredy Neptune
Dorothy Porter 1954-2008 Driving Too Fast, Crete , Also a Novel (The Monkeys Mask)
Peter Porter 1929-2010 Once Bitten, Twice Bitten , The Last of England , Better than God
David Rowbotham 1924-2010 Poems for America
Kenneth Slessor 1901-1971 Five Bells, Cuckooz Contrey, One Hundred Poems
Judith Wright 1915-2000 South of My Days

Children's book authors

Surname Life dates Works
Pamela Allen * 1934 Who Sank the Boat, Bertie and the Bear, My Cat Maisie
Nan Chauncy 1900-1970 They Found a Cave, Tiger in the Bush, Devil's Hill, Tangara
Gary crew * 1947 First Light, po or shit, The Watertower
John Flanagan * 1944 The Chronicles of Araluen
Mem Fox * 1946 Possum Magic , Wombat Divine
Libby Gleeson * 1950 The Princess and the Perfect Dish, An Ordinary Day
Morris Gleitzman * 1953 Two Weeks With The Queen, Boy Overboard, Sticky Beak
Sonya Hartnett * 1968 Sleeping Dogs, Thursday's Child
Elizabeth Honey * 1947 Princess Beatrice and the Rotten Robber, Don't Pat the Wombat, The Moon in the Man
Paul Jennings * 1943 Unreal !, Wicked !, The Gizmo
Robin Klein * 1936 Hating Alison Ashley, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
John Marsden * 1950 Tomorrow series
Geoffrey McSkimming * 1962 Cairo Jim series
James Moloney * 1954 The House on River Terrace, Black Taxi
Patricia Mullins Hattie and the Fox, The Magic Saddle, The Sea-Breeze Hotel
Martine Murray * 1951 How to Make a Bird
Emily Rodda (pseud. By Jennifer Rowe) * 1948 Deltora Quest, Pigs Might Fly
Dick Roughsey 1924-1985 Turramulli the Giant Quinkin
Ivan Southall 1921-2008 Ash Road, Simon Black series
Colin Thiele 1920-2006 The Sun on the Stubble, Storm Boy, Blue Fin
PL traverses 1899-1996 Mary Poppins
Margaret Wild * 1948 The Very Best of Friends, Baby Boomsticks, Jenny Angel, Jinx
Patricia Wrightson 1921-2010 The Crooked Snake, The Nargun and the Stars, A Little Fear

Further

Surname Life dates Works
Geraldine Brooks * 1955 Nine Parts of Desire, Foreign Correspondence, Year of Wonders, March
Wilfred Burchett 1911-1983 journalist
Caroline Carver * 1959 Dead Heat, a happy place, race in the outback