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

NameLebensdatenWerke
Glenda Adams1939–2007Longleg, The Tempest of Clemenza, Dancing on Coral
Jessica Anderson1916–2010Tirra Lirra by the River, The Impersonators, Stories from the Warm Zone
Tom Arden1961–2015Moon Escape
Thea Astley1925–2004The Well Dressed Explorer, The Slow Natives, The Acolyte, Drylands
Murray Bail* 1941Homesickness, Holden’s Performance, Eucalyptus
Marjorie Barnard1897–1987
Michael Gerard Bauer* 1955The Running Man, Don’t Call Me Ismael!
Barbara Baynton1857–1929Bush Studies
Randolph Bedford1868–1941
Geoff Bingham1919–2009
Carmel Bird* 1940The Bluebird Café, The White Garden, Red Shoes
Rolf Boldrewood1826–1915Robbery under Arms
Guy Boothby1867–1905Dr. Nikola
Alex Buzo1944–2006Norm and Ahmed, Rooted, Macquarie: a Play, Coralie Lansdowne Says No
Trudi Canavan* 1969Black Magician Trilogy, Age of the Five
Peter Carey* 1943Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda, Jack Maggs, Bliss, Die Steuerfahnderin, True History of the Kelly Gang
Gavin Casey1907–1964
Donald Ernest Charlwood1915–2012
Marcus Clarke1846–1881For the Term of His Natural Life
James Clavell1921–1994King Rat, Shogun, Noble House
Kenneth Cook1929–1987Wake in Fright
Sandy Curtis* 1948Das Tal der Angst, Der Fluss des Vergessens, Im Meer der Furcht, Am Abgrund der Vergeltung
Frank Dalby Davison1893–1970
Liam Davison1957–2014The Velodrome, Soundings, The White Woman
Robert Dessaix* 1944Night Letters
Garry Disher* 1949Drachenmann, Dreck, Flugrausch, Gier, Hinter den Inseln, Hinterhalt, Willkür, Porta Villa Blues, Schnappschuss
Robert Drewe* 1943The Savage Crows, The Bodysurfers, Grace
Nick Earls* 1963Zigzag Street, 48 Shades of Brown, Monica Bloom
Greg Egan* 1961Oceanic, Distress
Sumner Locke Elliott1917–1991Careful, He Might Hear You, Rusty Bugles
Jennifer Fallon* 1959The Tide Lords, Demon Child Trilogy, The Hythrun Chronicles
Richard Flanagan* 1961Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping
David Foster* 1949The Pure Land, Moonlite, The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover, The Glade within the Grove
David Francis* 1958Stray Dog Winter, Great Inland Sea, Agapanthus Tango
Miles Franklin1879–1954My Brilliant Career
Joseph Furphy1843–1912Such is Life
Helen Garner* 1942Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino
Peter Goldsworthy* 1951Maestro
Germaine Greer* 1939The Female Eunuch, Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
Kate Grenville* 1950Lilian’s Story, Dreamhouse, Dark Places, The Idea of Perfection, The Secret River, The Lieutenant, Sarah Thornhill
Jeannie Gunn1870–1961The Little Black Princess
Rodney Hall* 1935Just Relations, The Grisly Wife, The Island in the Mind
Barbara Hanrahan1939–1991The Scent of Eucalyptus, Sea-Green, Dove, Flawless Jade
Traci Harding* 1964The Ancient Future, The Alchemist Key
Richard Harland* 1947The Black Crusade, Catabolic Magic, The Greater Death of Saito Saku
Beverley Harper1941–2002Storms over Africa, Edge of the Rain, Echo of an Angry God
Sonya Hartnett* 1968Of a Boy, Surrender, Landscape with Animals
Xavier Herbert1901–1984Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country
Dorothy Coade Hewett1923–2002Alice in Wormland
Helen Hodgman1945–2022Jack and Jill, Broken Words, The Bad Policeman
Janette Turner Hospital* 1942Charades, The Last Magician, Oyster
Adrian Hyland* 1954Diamond Dove, Gunshot Road
Ion Idriess1889–1979Lasseter’s Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland
David Ireland1927–2022The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, The Glass Canoe, A Woman of the Future
Ian Irvine* 1950The View from the Mirror, The Well of Echoes, The Song of the Tears
Charlotte Jay1919–1996Beat Not the Bones
George Henry Johnston1912–1970My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothing
Elizabeth Jolley1923–2007Mr Scobie’s Riddle, My Father’s Moon, The Orchard Thieves, Lovesong
Barry Jonsberg* 1951The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull
Thomas Keneally* 1935Schindlers Liste, Bring Larks and Heroes, A Dutiful Daughter, Passenger, A River Town
Henry Kingsley1830–1876The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn, Ravenshoe, Stretton
Christopher John Koch1932–2013The Boys in the Island, Highway to a War
Michelle de Kretser* 1957The Rose Grower, Der Fall Hamilton, The Lost Dog
Richard Lane1918–2008
Eve Langley1908–1974The Pea-Pickers
Julia Leigh* 1970Der Jäger, Unruhe
Kathy Lette* 1958Puberty Blues
Joan Lindsay1896–1984Picnic at Hanging Rock
Shane Maloney* 1953The Brush Off
David Malouf* 1934Johnno, The Great World, Dream Stuff
Colleen McCullough1937–2015Die Dornenvögel
Ronald McKie1909–1991The Mango Tree
Alex Miller* 1936Lovesong
Drusilla Modjeska* 1946The Orchard
Frank Moorhouse1938–2022Grand Days, Dark Palace
Sally Morgan* 1951My Place
Kate Morton* 1976The Shifting Fog, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours
Gerald Murnane* 1939The Plains
Max Murray1901–1956The Voice of the Corpse, The Neat Little Corpse, The Right Honourable Corpse
D’Arcy Niland1919–1967The Shiralee
Garth Nix* 1963The Ragwitch, Shade’s Children, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)1920–1993We are Going, The Dawn Is at Hand
Malla Nunn* 19**A Beautiful Place to Die
Charles Osborne1927–2017
Ruth Park1917–2010The Harp in the South, Swords and Crowns and Rings
Andrew Barton Paterson (Banjo Paterson)1864–1941Waltzing Matilda, The Man from Snowy River
Steven Paulsen* 1955
Brian Penton1904–1951Landtakers, Inheritors
Doris Pilkington1937–2014Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter, Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence. St. Lucia, Qld
Katharine Susannah Prichard1883–1969Coonardoo
Matthew Reilly* 1974Ice Station
Henry Handel Richardson1870–1946The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Steele Rudd1868–1935
Henry Savery1791–1842Quintus Servinton
Thomas Shapcott* 1935Theatre of Darkness
Patricia Shaw* 1929River of the Sun, The Opal Seekers, The Five Winds
Christina Stead1902–1983House of all Nations, The Man Who Loved Children, The Little Hotel
Amanda Stewart* 1959
Dal Stivens1911–1997Jimmy Brockett
Randolph Stow1935–2010A Haunted Land, To the Islands, Tourmaline, Visitants
Peter Temple1946–2018Vergessene Schuld (Jack Irish), An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, Kalter August
Christos Tsiolkas* 1965Mapping Desire – Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded
George Turner1916–1997The Sea and Summer, Genetic Soldier
Arthur W. Upfield1890–1964Death of a Lake und div. weitere Kriminalromane um Napoleon „Bony“ Bonaparte
Alan Villiers1903–1982
Peter Watt* 1949Eden, Wer dem Wind folgt, Papua, Shadow of the Osprey, Auf den Flügeln des Adlers, Cry of the Curlew
Morris L. West1916–1999Children of the Sun, Daughter of Silence, The Ambassador, Vanishing Point
Osmar White1909–1991Green Armour, Conqueror’s Road
Patrick White1912–1990Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Twyborn Affair, Memoirs of Many in One
David Williamson* 1942Bühnenautor
Tim Winton* 1960An Open Swimmer, Cloudstreet, The Riders, Reihe Lockie Leonard
Peter Yeldham1927–2022Two Sides of a Triangle

Dichter

NameLebensdatenWerke
Arthur Henry Adams1872–1936
Francis Adams1862–1893Songs of the Army of the Night
Christopher Brennan1870–1932Poems
Luke Davies* 1962auch Romane und Drehbücher
Jack Davis1917–2000No Sugar, Jagardoo – Poems from Aboriginal Australia
C. J. Dennis1876–1938A Sentimental Bloke, Melbourne Streets
Edward Dyson1865–1931Rhymes from the Mines and other Lines
Barron Fields1786–1846First Fruits of Australian Poetry
Mary Gilmore1865–1962
Adam Lindsay Gordon1833–1870Wolf and Hound, Bush Ballads
Charles Harpur1813–1868
Kevin Hart* 1954
A. D. Hope1907–2000
Henry Kendall1839–1882Bell-Birds
Henry Lawson1867–1922The Days While We Went Swimming, The Teams, auch Kurzgeschichten (While the Billy Boiled)
Dorothea Mackellar1885–1968My Country
Les Murray1938–2019Fredy Neptune
Dorothy Porter1954–2008Driving Too Fast, Crete, auch ein Roman (The Monkeys Mask)
Peter Porter1929–2010Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, The Last of England, Better than God
David Rowbotham1924–2010Poems for America
Kenneth Slessor1901–1971Five Bells, Cuckooz Contrey, One Hundred Poems
Judith Wright1915–2000South of My Days

Kinderbuchautoren

NameLebensdatenWerke
Pamela Allen* 1934Who Sank the Boat, Bertie and the Bear, My Cat Maisie
Nan Chauncy1900–1970They Found a Cave, Tiger in the Bush, Devil’s Hill, Tangara
Gary Crew* 1947First Light, po or shit, The Watertower
John Flanagan* 1944Die Chroniken von Araluen
Mem Fox* 1946Possum Magic, Wombat Divine
Libby Gleeson* 1950The Princess and the Perfect Dish, An Ordinary Day
Morris Gleitzman* 1953Two Weeks With The Queen, Boy Overboard, Sticky Beak
Sonya Hartnett* 1968Sleeping Dogs, Thursday’s Child
Elizabeth Honey* 1947Princess Beatrice and the Rotten Robber, Don’t Pat the Wombat, The Moon in the Man
Paul Jennings* 1943Unreal!, Wicked!, The Gizmo
Robin Klein* 1936Hating Alison Ashley, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
John Marsden* 1950Tomorrow-Serie
Geoffrey McSkimming* 1962Cairo Jim-Reihe
James Moloney* 1954The House on River Terrace, Black Taxi
Patricia MullinsHattie and the Fox, The Magic Saddle, The Sea-Breeze Hotel
Martine Murray* 1951How to Make a Bird
Emily Rodda (Pseud. von Jennifer Rowe)* 1948Deltora Quest, Pigs Might Fly
Dick Roughsey1924–1985Turramulli the Giant Quinkin
Ivan Southall1921–2008Ash Road, Simon-Black-Reihe
Colin Thiele1920–2006The Sun on the Stubble, Storm Boy, Blue Fin
P. L. Travers1899–1996Mary Poppins
Margaret Wild* 1948The Very Best of Friends, Baby Boomsticks, Jenny Angel, Jinx
Patricia Wrightson1921–2010The Crooked Snake, The Nargun and the Stars, A Little Fear

Weitere

NameLebensdatenWerke
Geraldine Brooks* 1955Nine Parts of Desire, Foreign Correspondence, Year of Wonders, March
Wilfred Burchett1911–1983Journalist
Caroline Carver* 1959Dead Heat, Ein glücklicher Ort, Wettlauf im Outback