The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As of 2016, the award is valued at A$60,000.
Zora Bernice May Cross was an Australian poet, best-selling novelist and journalist.
Cecilia May Gibbs MBE was an Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist. She is best known for her gumnut babies, and the book Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
Gwenyth Valmai Meredith OBE, also known by her married name Gwen Harrison, was an Australian writer, dramatist and playwright, and radio writer. She is best known for her radio serials The Lawsons (1944–1949) and the longer-running Blue Hills (1949–1976).
Marie Louise Hamilton Mack was an Australian poet, journalist and novelist. She is most known for her writings and her involvement in World War I in 1914 as the first woman war correspondent in Belgium.
Nancy May McDonald was an Australian poet and editor.
Di Morrissey is a best-selling Australian novelist.
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1898.
Lilian Turner was an Australian writer.
Winifred Birkett (1897–1966) was an Australian novelist and poet who won the 1934 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for her 1935 novel Earth's Quality.
An Australian Girl in London (1902) is a novel by Australian author Louise Mack.
Eliza Emily Donnithorne was an Australian woman best known as a possible inspiration for the character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.
Agnes G. Murphy, was an Irish journalist and writer who wrote the first biography of Dame Nellie Melba.
Jacqueline Frances Kent is an Australian journalist, biographer and non-fiction writer. She is also known as Jacquie Kent, the name she used when writing young adult fiction in the 1990s and sometimes writes as Frances Cook.
Amy Eleanor Mack, also known as Amy Eleanor Harrison and Mrs. Launcelot Harrison, was an Australian writer, journalist, and editor. She was honorary secretary of the National Council of Women of New South Wales. She is best known as a children's author of such books as Bushland stories (1910) and Scribbling Sue (1914) and others, as well as a journalist and an editor of Sydney Morning Herald.
Phillip Kenny Walsh, invariably referred to as Phil Walsh or Phil K. Walsh, was an Australian stage actor and producer who made several feature films which still exist, unusually for those made during the "silent era".
Jessie Urquhart was an Australian journalist, novelist and short-story writer.
Fair Girls and Grey Horses : With Other Verses (1898) is the first collection of poems by Scottish-Australian poet Will H. Ogilvie. It was published in hardback by The Bulletin in Sydney in 1898.
Jean Logan Ranken was an Australian poet and novelist.
Camille's Bread (1995) is a novel by Australian writer Amanda Lohrey. It was originally published by Angus and Robertson in Australia in 1995.
