List of Australian writers

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Truscott may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Donald Friend</span>

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend was an Australian artist and diarist who lived much of his life overseas. He has been the subject of controversy since the posthumous publication of diaries in which he wrote about how he sexually abused children during his time in Bali.

An online diary or web diary, is a personal diary or journal that is published on the World Wide Web on a personal website or a diary-hosting website.

Zlata Filipović is a Bosnian-Irish diarist. She kept a diary from 1991 to 1993 when she was a child helping in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

The following lists events that happened during 1915 in Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rutka Laskier</span> Jewish Polish diarist died in Auschwitz

Rut "Rutka" Laskier was a Jewish Polish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 at the age of fourteen. Her manuscript, authenticated by Holocaust scholars and survivors, was published in the Polish language in early 2006. English and Hebrew translations were released the following year. It has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hélène Berr</span> French note writer

Hélène Berr was a French woman of Jewish ancestry and faith, who documented her life in a notebook during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank".

Elizabeth Smith may refer to:

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<i>Monkey Grip</i> (novel) Novel by Helen Garner

Monkey Grip is a 1977 novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book. It initially received a mixed critical reception, but has now become accepted as a classic of modern Australian literature. The novel deals with the life of single-mother Nora, as she narrates her increasingly tumultuous relationship with a flaky heroin addict, juxtaposed with her raising a daughter while living in share houses in Melbourne during the late 1970s. A film based on the novel, also titled Monkey Grip, was released in 1982. In the 1990s, when critics identified the Australian literary genre of grunge lit, the book was retrospectively categorized as one of the first examples of this genre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Francis Laseron</span>

Charles Francis Laseron was an American-born Australian naturalist and malacologist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diary</span> Record of events with entries arranged by date

A diary is a written or audiovisual memorabilic record, with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwritten but are now also often digital. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, thoughts, and/or feelings, excluding comments on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone who keeps a diary is known as a diarist. Diaries undertaken for institutional purposes play a role in many aspects of human civilization, including government records, business ledgers, and military records. In British English, the word may also denote a preprinted journal format.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">War diary</span>

A war diary is a regularly updated official record kept by military units of their activities during wartime. The purpose of these diaries is to both record information which can later be used by the military to improve its training and tactics as well as to generate a detailed record of units' activities for future use by historians. War diaries are focused on the administration and operations of the unit they cover, but may also contain information about individual personnel.

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1989.