Sonya Louise Hartnett is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.
Elliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written three novels, one short story collection and a book for children. He has been called a post-grunge lit writer, a reference to his works being written following the 1990s genre of grunge lit.
Theft: A Love Story is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It won the 2006 Vance Palmer Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for fiction.
Tom Flood is an Australian novelist, editor, manuscript assessor, songwriter and musician. Tom Flood was born in Sydney in New South Wales, the son of writer Dorothy Hewett and grew up in Western Australia.
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish is a 2001 novel by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan. Gould's Book of Fish was Flanagan's third novel.
Diary of a Bad Year is a book by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. It was released by Text Publishing in Australia on 3 September 2007, in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker on 6 September, and in the United States on 27 December.
Joan Elizabeth London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.
Michelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka, and moved to Australia in 1972 when she was 14.
The Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s. The novels have been described as a 'slow-moving, Proustian meditation on being and time' and 'a deeply satisfying encounter with the empty spaces that the suburb failed to fill both between people and inside them.'
Deborah Robertson (1959) is an Australian writer. She was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, and currently lives in Melbourne.
Matthew Condon,OAM is a prize-winning Australian writer and journalist. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2019.
Careless is a 2006 novel by Australian author Deborah Robertson.
Sixty Lights is a 2004 novel by Australian author Gail Jones.
The Lost Dog is a 2007 novel by Australian writer Michelle de Kretser.
The Widow and Her Hero is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally set in Australia during World War II.
Mireille Juchau is an Australian author who was born and raised in Sydney New South Wales, where she currently lives.
Stephen Daisley is a New Zealand novelist.
