Liste australischer Schriftsteller

Australien existiert erst seit etwas über 100 Jahren als eigenständige Nation und die australische Literatur ist somit noch relativ jung. Die meisten australischen Schriftsteller sind in Deutschland weitgehend unbekannt, auch wenn der Schriftsteller Patrick White Nobelpreisträger war.

In den folgenden Listen werden die wichtigsten Autoren mit ihren Lebensdaten und ihren bekanntesten Werken aufgeführt.

Autoren

Name	Daten	Werke
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	Moon Escape
Thea Astley	1925–2004	The Well Dressed Explorer, The Slow Natives, The Acolyte, Drylands
Murray Bail	* 1941	Homesickness, Holden’s Performance, Eucalyptus
Michael Gerard Bauer	* 1955	The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ismael!
Carmel Bird	* 1940	The Bluebird Café, The White Garden, Red Shoes
Rolf Boldrewood	1826–1915	Robbery under Arms
Alex Buzo	1944–2006	Norm and Ahmed, Rooted, Macquarie: a Play, Coralie Lansdowne Says No
Peter Carey	* 1943	Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda, Jack Maggs, Bliss, Die Steuerfahnderin, True History of the Kelly Gang
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	Das Tal der Angst, Der Fluss des Vergessens, Im Meer der Furcht, Am Abgrund der Vergeltung
Robert Dessaix	* 1944	Night Letters
Garry Disher	* 1949	Drachenmann, Dreck, Flugrausch, Gier, Hinter den Inseln, Hinterhalt, Willkür, Porta Villa Blues, Schnappschuss
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	Fantasy
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
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
Jeannie Gunn	1870–1961	The Little Black Princess
Rodney Hall	* 1935	Just Relations, The Grisly Wife, The Island in the Mind
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	Schindlers Liste, 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	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, Disquiet
Kathy Lette	* 1958	Puberty Blues
Joan Lindsay	1896–1984	Picnic at Hanging Rock
David Malouf	* 1934	Johnno, The Great World, Dream Stuff
Shane Maloney	* 1953	The Brush Off
Ronald McKie	1909–1991	The Mango Tree
Alex Miller	* 1936	Lovesong
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 Honourable 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 ist at Hand
Malla Nunn	* 19**	A Beautiful Place to Die
Charles Osborne	* 1927
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
Brian Penton	1904–1951	Landtakers, Inheritors
Doris Pilkington	* 1937	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
Henry Savery	1791–1842	Quintus Servinton
Thomas Shapcott	* 1935	Theatre 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	Vergessene Schuld (Jack Irish), An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, Kalter August
Chris 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 und div. weitere Kriminalromane um Napoleon „Bony“ Bonaparte
Alan Villiers	1903–1982
Peter Watt		To Chase the Storm, Papua, Shadow of the Osprey
Morris L. West	1916–1999	Children of the Sun, Daughter of Silence, The Ambassador, Vanishing Point
Osmar White	1909–1991	Green Armour, Conqueror's Road
Patrick White	1912–1990	Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Twyborn Affair, Memoirs of Many in One
David Williamson	* 1942	Bühnenautor
Tim Winton	* 1960	An Open Swimmer, Cloudstreet, The Riders, Reihe „Lockie Leonard“

Dichter

Name	Daten	Werke
Arthur Henry Adams	1872–1936
Francis Adams	1862–1893	Songs of the Army of the Night
Christopher Brennan	1870–1932	Poems
Jack Davis	1917–2000	No Sugar, Jagardoo - Poems from Aboriginal Australia
C. J. 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
A. D. Hope	1907–2000
Henry Kendall	1839–1882	Bell-Birds
Henry Lawson	1867–1922	The Days While We Went Swimming, The Teams, auch Kurzgeschichten (While the Billy Boiled)
Dorothea Mackellar	1885–1965	My Country
Les Murray	* 1938	Fredy Neptune
Dorothy Porter	1954–2008	Driving Too Fast, Crete, auch ein Roman (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

Kinderbuchautoren

Name	Daten	Werke
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	Die Chroniken von 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-Serie
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. von Jennifer Rowe)	* 1948	Deltora Quest, Pigs Might Fly
Dick Roughsey	1924–1985	Turramulli the Giant Quinkin
Geoffrey McSkimming	* 1962	„Cairo Jim“-Reihe
Ivan Southall	1921–2008	Ash Road, „Simon Black“-Reihe
Colin Thiele	1920–2006	The Sun on the Stubble, Storm Boy, Blue Fin
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

Weitere

Name	Daten	Werke
Geraldine Brooks	* 1955	Nine Parts of Desire, Foreign Correspondence, Year of Wonders, March
Wilfred Burchett	1911–1983	Journalist
Caroline Carver	* 1959	Dead Heat, Ein glücklicher Ort, Wettlauf im Outback