Literature of Australia

Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, the narrative art of Australian writers has, since 1788, introduced the character of a new continent into literature—exploring such themes as Aboriginality, mateship, egalitarianism, democracy, national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and geography, the complexities of urban living, and "the beauty and the terror" of life in the Australian bush.

Notable Australian writers have included the novelists Marcus Clarke, Miles Franklin, Christina Stead, Patrick White, David Malouf, Thomas Keneally, Morris West, and Colleen McCullough; poets Henry Lawson, "Banjo" Paterson, C. J. Dennis, Dorothea Mackellar, and Mary Gilmore; historians Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey; children's authors P. L. Travers, May Gibbs, and Colin Thiele; and expatriate writers Robert Hughes, Clive James, and Germaine Greer. Notable contemporary Australian novelists and writers include Helen Garner, Peter Carey, Tim Winton and Geraldine Brooks.

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