List of Indigenous Australian writers

Numerous Indigenous Australians are notable for their contributions to Australian literature and journalism. Indigenous Australian literature includes fiction, plays, letters, essays and other works.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Literature

• Faith Bandler – activist and novelist
• Larissa Behrendt – activist, lawyer and novelist
• Lisa Bellear – dramatist and poet
• Charmaine Bennell – children's fiction
• Iris Burgoyne – autobiographer
• Burnum Burnum – writer and educator, tireless proponent of reconciliation
• Ken Canning – poet and activist
• Mary Carmel Charles – children's fiction
• Claire G. Coleman – writer and poet
• Jack Davis – poet and playwright
• Wesley Enoch – playwright, director
• Lionel Fogarty – poet and activist
• Richard Frankland – playwright, scriptwriter and musician
• Kevin Gilbert – activist, writer, artist
• Jane Harrison – playwright
• Ruth Hegarty – writer
• Anita Heiss – novelist, poet and children's author
• Kate Howarth – writer, memoirist
• Marnie Kennedy – autobiographer
• Ruby Langford Ginibi – writer, historian, autobiographer
• Melissa Lucashenko – novelist
• Ray Mancini – writer, educator
• Philip McLaren – author, academic and artist
• Olga Miller – historian, artist and author
• Sally Morgan – writer
• Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) – poet, author, playwright (note: Johnson's Aboriginality is contested by many)
• Big Bill Neidjie – last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) – poet
• Bruce Pascoe
• Doris Pilkington Garimara
• Ronald Roe – writer
• Kim Scott – novelist
• Kirli Saunders – author and poet
• Jared Thomas – writer, and arts curator
• Margaret Tucker – activist and author of If Everyone Cared (1977), one of the first autobiographies of the Stolen Generations
• David Unaipon (1872–1967) – first published Aboriginal author
• James Unaipon (1835–1907) – author and preacher
• Ellen van Neerven – novelist and poet
• Sam Watson – novelist and filmmaker
• Samuel Wagan Watson – poet
• Herb Wharton – poet and novelist
• Tara June Winch – novelist
• Alexis Wright – Miles Franklin Award winning novelist

Music and theatre

• Roger Bennett – playwright
• Wayne Blair – television writer, actor and director
• Jimmy Chi – composer, musician and playwright
• Richard Frankland – playwright, filmmaker, singer, songwriter
• David Page – composer, musician and playwright
• Stephen Page – film director, choreographer

Journalism

• Dan Bourchier
• Miriam Corowa
• Jeremy Geia
• Freda Glynn
• Karla Grant – NITV anchor of Living Black
• Stan Grant
• John Newfong
• Rhianna Patrick
• Jack Patten

Non-fiction

• Frances Bodkin
• Veronica Gorrie

Essays and academia

• Chelsea Watego – academic and writer

External links

• Children's literature portal

• OzLit list of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers