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List of Australian novelists

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List of Australian novelists

This is a list of novelists living in Australia or publishing significantly while living there.

Contents

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  • Nick Earls (born 1963)
  • Arabella Edge, The Company: The Story of a Murderer
  • Greg Egan (born 1961), science fiction
  • Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956)
  • M. Barnard Eldershaw, pseudonym for Flora Eldershaw and Marjorie Barnard
  • Sumner Locke Elliott (1917–1991), Careful, He Might Hear You
  • Matilda Jane Evans (1827–1886)

    • I

  • David Ireland (born 1927), A Woman of the Future (1979), The Glass Canoe (1976) Miles Franklin Award
  • Ian Irvine (born 1950)

    • K

  • Christopher Kelen (born 1958), also poet and artist
  • Thomas Keneally (born 1935), Schindler's Ark (1985) Booker Prize winner, filmed as Schindler's List; Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete, (1968) Miles Franklin Award winners
  • Cate Kennedy (born 1963), The World Beneath
  • Robin Klein (born 1936)
  • Christopher Koch (born 1932), The Doubleman (1985) and Highways to a War (1996), Miles Franklin Award winners
  • Nigel Krauth (born 1949)
  • Torsten Krol (possibly a pseudonym)

    • N

  • Simpson Newland (1835–1925)
  • Nerida Newton (born 1972), The Lambing Flat
  • John Henry Nicholson (1838–1923)
  • D'Arcy Niland (1919–1967), The Shiralee
  • Hume Nisbet (1849–1923)
  • Michael Noonan (1921–2000), The December Boys
  • Louis Nowra (born 1950), better known as a playwright
  • Judy Nunn (born 1945)

    • O

  • Elizabeth O'Conner (born 1913), The Irishman, 1960 Miles Franklin Award winner
  • Andrew T. O'Connor (born 1978), Tuvalu
  • John O'Grady (1907–1981), They're a Weird Mob
  • Wendy Orr, Canadian-born Australian children's writer, Nim's Island
  • Ouyang Yu (born 1955), expatriate Chinese, also poet and editor

    • T

  • Peter Temple (born 1946), crime fiction, The Broken Shore (2005), Truth (2009), winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award (2010)
  • Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), The Battlers (1941), Ride on Stranger (1943)
  • Colin Thiele (1920–2006), Storm Boy (1964)
  • Carrie Tiffany (born 1965), Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (2005), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Orange Prize; Mateship with Birds (2012)
  • P. L. Travers (1899–1996), Mary Poppins (1934)
  • Rachael Treasure, Jillaroo (2000)
  • Penelope Trevor (born 1960), Listening for Small Sounds (1996)
  • Christos Tsiolkas (born 1965), Loaded (1995); Dead Europe (2005); The Slap (2008), winner of Best Book Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award (2009)
  • Lee Tulloch Fabulous Nobodies
  • Ethel Turner (1872–1958), Seven Little Australians (1894)
  • George Turner (1916–1997), The Cupboard Under the Stairs (1962) Miles Franklin Award

    • U

  • Arthur Upfield (1890–1964), crime fiction featuring the part-aboriginal detective 'Boney'; The Sands of Windee (1931)

    • V

  • Lin Van Hek
  • Frederick Bert Vickers (born 1903)
  • Mary Theresa Vidal (1815–1869)

    • Y

  • Morgan Yasbincek (born 1964)

    • Z

  • Markus Zusak (born 1975), The Book Thief

    • References

    List of Australian novelists Wikipedia
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