True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story.
Peter Temple was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his Jack Irish novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. He was also an international magazine and newspaper journalist and editor.
Chloe Melisande Hooper is an Australian author.
The Broken Shore (2005) is a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.
The Dragon Man is a 1999 crime novel by the Australian author Garry Disher.
Barry Maitland is an Australian author of crime fiction. After studying architecture at Cambridge, Maitland practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia, where he became a professor of architecture at the University of Newcastle. He retired in 2000 and took up writing full-time.
Andrew Masterson is an Australian author of crime fiction, horror and non-fiction. Masterson emigrated from the UK to Australia in 1968. He has worked as a journalist since 1984 in a number of countries, including Australia, the UK, Germany and the United States. He has a teenager named Cato, and a wife named Sahm.
John Dale is an Australian author of crime fiction and true crime books. He completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Technology Sydney, in 1999, and subsequently joined the UTS writing Program where he was Professor of Writing and Director of the UTS Centre for New Writing until 2020.
Marshall Browne was an Australian crime fiction writer.
Malla Nunn is a Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter and author. Her works include the murder mysteries A Beautiful Place to Die and Let the Dead Lie, as well as the award-winning young adult novel, When the Ground Is Hard.
Malcolm Knox, is an Australian journalist and author.
The Deutscher Krimi Preis, or the German Crime Fiction Award, is the oldest and most prestigious German literary prize for crime fiction.
Geoffrey McGeachin is an Australian photographer and author of crime fiction. He spent a period of time in the US in the 1970s as a commercial photographer, before returning to Melbourne where he now lives.
This House of Grief is a 2014 non-fiction book by Helen Garner. Subtitled "The story of a murder trial", its subject matter is the murder conviction of a man accused of driving his car into a dam resulting in the deaths of his three children in rural Victoria, Australia, and the ensuing trials. The book has been critically lauded, with The Australian declaring it a "literary masterpiece".
Adrian Hyland is an Australian writer of non-fiction and crime fiction.
Wyatt is a 2010 crime novel by Australian novelist Garry Disher which won the 2010 Ned Kelly Award. It is the seventh novel in the author's series of novels featuring the recurring character of Wyatt, a professional thief and burglar.
Candice Fox is an Australian novelist, best known for her crime fiction. She was born in the western suburbs of Sydney into a large family. She spent a brief period in the Royal Australian Navy before studying and teaching at university level.
Jane Harper is a British–Australian author known for her crime novels The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man, all set in rural Australia.
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1996.
Consolation (2020) is a crime novel by Australian writer Garry Disher. It was the third novel to feature his recurring character Paul "Hirsch" Hirschhausen.
