Australian literature

David Unaipon (1872-1967), the first Indigenous Australians author.

Australian literature is literature made by Australians or people who live in Australia. In Australia's early history, it was made of many British colonies. So, it is in some ways similar to British literature. Common themes in Australian literature are friendship, equality, democracy, and Australian cultural identity.

Some Australian book writers are Marcus Clarke, Miles Franklin, Patrick White, Thomas Keneally, Morris West and Colleen McCullough. Some bush poets are Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Some historians are Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey. A playwright is David Williamson. Some writers who were born in Australia, but moved somewhere else, are Barry Humphries, Robert Hughes, Clive James and Germaine Greer.

Australian Literature Media

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  Patrick White became the first Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.

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  Noel Pearson is an Aboriginal lawyer, rights activist and essayist.

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  Watkin Tench, an officer of the marines on the First Fleet and author.

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  Joseph Furphy (Tom Collins), 1911

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  Henry Lawson (right) with J. F. Archibald, the co-founder of The Bulletin

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  Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner is the first and only book by an Australian author to have been continuously in print for 100 years.