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    • Australian writers who have obtained international renown include the Nobel-winning author Patrick White, as well as authors Christina Stead, David Malouf, Peter Carey, Bradley Trevor Greive, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Nevil Shute and Morris West. Notable contemporary expatriate authors include the feminist Germaine Greer, art … See more

    Summary

    Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the See more

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and themes

    Writing by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    While his father, James Unaipon (c.1835-1907), contributed to accounts of Aboriginal mythology written by the missionary George Ta… See more

    Early and classic works

    For centuries before the British settlement of Australia, European writers wrote fictional accounts of an imagining of a Great Southern Land. In 1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman landed in Tasmania and after examining … See more

    Children's literature

    Ethel Turner's Seven Little Australians, which relates the adventures of seven mischievous children in Sydney, has been in print since 1894, longer than any other Australian children's novel. The Getting of Wisdom (1910) … See more

    Expatriate authors

    A generation of leading contemporary international writers who left Australia for Britain and the United States in the 1960s have remained regular and passionate contributors of Australian themed literary works throu… See more

    Other contemporary works and authors

    Martin Boyd (1893–1972) was a distinguished memoirist, novelist and poet, whose works included social comedies and the serious reflections of a pacifist faced with a time of war. Among his Langton series of no… See more

    Australian writing in languages other than English

    Australia has migrant groups from many countries, and members of those communities (not always of the first generation) have produced Australian writing in a variety of languages. These include … See more

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