20th-century Australian short story writers

The list 20th-century Australian short story writers includes David Malouf, Alexis Wright, Patrick White, Jon Cleary and Heather Rose. The list consists of 152 members.

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David Malouf

Australian writer

Overview: David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an Australian writer. He is widely recognized as one of Australia's greatest writers. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1934

Age: 91

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Granta people 26T

Australian male dramatists and playwrights 78T

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Alexis Wright

Indigenous Australian writer

Overview: Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is an Aboriginal Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria and the 2018 Stella Prize for her "collective memoir" ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women writers 240T

University of Melbourne women 176T

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Patrick White

Australian novelist and playwright; Nobel Laureate

Overview: Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.

Date of birth: 28 May 1912

Date of death: 30 September 1990

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Jon Cleary

Australian writer (1917–2010)

Overview: Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 1917 – 19 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including The Sundowners (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1917

Date of death: 19 July 2010

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Heather Rose

Author

Overview: Heather Rose (born 1964) is an Australian author born in Hobart, Tasmania. Her novels are Bruny, The Museum of Modern Love, The Butterfly Man, The River Wife, White Heart and for children Finding Sere ...

Date of birth: 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women writers 240T

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Nene Gare

author of 'The Fringe Dwellers'

Overview: Nene Gare (9 May 1919 – 29 May 1994) was an Australian writer and artist, best known as the author of the novel The Fringe Dwellers (1961), which was made into the 1986 Australian film of the same ...

Date of birth: 9 May 1919

Date of death: 29 May 1994

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women writers 366T

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Tara June Winch

Indigenous Australian writer

Overview: Tara June Winch (born 1983) is an Aboriginal Australian writer.

Date of birth: 2 December 1983

Age: 41

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Meanjin people 36T

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Merlinda Bobis

Philippine-Australian writer and academic

Overview: Merlinda Bobis (born 25 November 1959) is a contemporary Philippine-Australian writer and academic.

Date of birth: 25 November 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Filipino women short story writers 7T

20th-century Australian women writers 366T

People from Legazpi, Albay 12T
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Amy Witting

Australian novelist and poet

Overview: Amy Witting (26 January 1918 – 18 September 2001) was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser. She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers ...

Date of birth: 26 January 1918

Date of death: 18 September 2001

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Partner: Les Levick (Married)

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20th-century Australian women writers 366T

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Australian women short story writers 94T
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Henry Lawson

Australian writer

Overview: Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and ...

Date of birth: 17 June 1867

Date of death: 2 September 1922

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Helen Garner

Australian author

Overview: Helen Garner (née Ford, born 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, immediately established her as an ...

Date of birth: 7 November 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Australian non-fiction crime writers 22T

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Janette Turner Hospital

Australian-born novelist and short story writer

Overview: Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston ...

Date of birth: 12 November 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women writers 316T

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Garry Disher

Australian writer

Overview: Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949 in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.

Date of birth: 15 August 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Australian male writers 181T

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Damien Broderick

Australian writer

Overview: Damien Francis Broderick (22 April 1944 – 19 April 2025) was an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction credits him with the ...

Date of birth: 22 April 1944

Date of death: 19 April 2025

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Australian male writers 278T

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Thea Astley

Twentieth century Australian novelist

Overview: Thea Beatrice May Astley (25 August 1925 – 17 August 2004) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1925

Date of death: 17 August 2004

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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People educated at All Hallows' School 19T

Australian Book Review people 42T

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Greg Egan

Australian science fiction writer

Overview: Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W ...

Date of birth: 20 August 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Australian male novelists 360T

Writers from Perth, Western Australia 45T
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Angela Thirkell

British writer

Overview: Angela Margaret Thirkell (née Mackail, 30 January 1890 – 29 January 1961) was an English and Australian novelist. She also published one novel, Trooper to Southern Cross, under the pseudonym Leslie ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1890

Date of death: 29 January 1961

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

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Frank Hardy

Australian novelist and political activist

Overview: Francis Joseph Hardy, (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994), published as Frank J. Hardy and also under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn, was an Australian novelist and writer. He best known for his 1950 novel ...

Date of birth: 21 March 1917

Date of death: 28 March 1994

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Peter Carey

Australian novelist

Overview: Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature ...

Date of birth: 7 February 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Granta people 26T

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Thomas Keneally

Australian Novelist

Overview: Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1935

Age: 89

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Granta people 26T

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Australian male novelists 360T