2019 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019.

• Tony Birch – The White Girl^[1]
• David Brooks – The Grass Library^[2]
• Steven Carroll – The Year of the Beast^[3]
• Melanie Cheng – Room for a Stranger^[4]
• Peggy Frew – Islands^[5]
• Peter Goldsworthy – Minotaur^[6]
• John Hughes – No One^[7]
• Anna Krien – Act of Grace^[8]
• Melina Marchetta – The Place on Dalhousie^[9]
• Andrew McGahan – The Rich Man's House (posthumous)
• Gerald Murnane – A Season on Earth^[10]
• Favel Parrett – There Was Still Love
• Heather Rose – Bruny^[11]
• Philip Salom – The Returns^[12]
• Carrie Tiffany – Exploded View^[13]
• Lucy Treloar – Wolfe Island^[14]
• Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus
• Tara June Winch – The Yield
• Charlotte Wood – The Weekend

• Debra Adelaide – Zebra: And Other Stories^[15]
• Yumna Kassab – The House of Youssef^[16]
• Josephine Rowe – Here Until August^[17]

• Alison Evans – Highway Bodies
• Mem Fox – The Tiny Star
• Helena Fox – How It Feels to Float^[18]
• Will Kostakis – Monuments^[19]
• Tania McCartney – Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures^[20]
• Meg McKinlay – Catch a Falling Star^[21]
• Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu^[22]
• Holden Sheppard – Invisible Boys^[23]
• Vikki Wakefield – This is How We Change the Ending^[24]

• Matthew Condon – The Night Dragon^[25]
• Pip Drysdale – The Strangers We Know^[26]
• Candice Fox – Gone By Midnight^[27]
• Nick Gadd – Death of a Typographer^[28]
• Tara Moss – Dead Man Switch^[29]
• Michael Robotham – Good Girl, Bad Girl
• Dave Warner – River of Salt^[30]
• Christian White – The Wife and the Widow

• John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars^[31]
• Claire G. Coleman – The Old Lie
• Greg Egan
  • The Best of Greg Egan
  • Perihelion Summer
  • "The Slipway"
  • "This Is Not the Way Home"
• Jay Kristoff – Darkdawn
• Garth Nix – Angel Mage

• Louise Crisp – Yuiquimbiang^[32]
• Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition^[33]
• Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu^[34]
• L. K. Holt – Birth Plan^[35]
• Gerald Murnane – Green Shadows and Other Poems^[36]
• Pi O – Heide^[37]

• Jane Caro – Accidental Feminists^[38]
• Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) – Growing Up African in Australia^[39]
• Stan Grant
  • Australia Day^[40]
  • On Identity^[41]
• Nicholas Hasluck – Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir^[42]
• Jess Hill – See What You Made Me Do^[43]
• Jacqueline Kent – Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook^[44]
• Caro Llewellyn – Diving into Glass^[45]
• Emily Maguire – This is What a Feminist Looks Like^[46]
• Bianca Nogrady (editor) – The Best Australian Science Writing 2019^[47]
• Christina Thompson – Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia^[48]

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

• 20 January – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born 1938)^[73]
• 1 February – Andrew McGahan, novelist (born 1966)^[74]
• 4 March – Les Carlyon, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (born 1942)^[75]
• 13 March – Edmund Capon, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London)^[76]
• 15 March – Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria)^[77]
• 22 March – Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (born 1927)^[78]
• 29 April – Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born 1938)^[79]
• 19 May – John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (born 1921)^[80]
• 1 June – Christobel Mattingley, writer for children and young adults (born 1931)^[81]
• 13 July – Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author (born 1956)^[82]
• 21 July –
  • Laurie Hergenhan, literary scholar (born 1931)^[83]
  • Ann Moyal, historian of science (born 1926)^[84]
• 10 September – Hal Colebatch, poet and novelist (born 1945)^[85]
• 30 October – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born 1939)^[86]
• 24 November – Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died in Cambridge, England)(born 1939)^[87]

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