1991 in Australian literature

Awards and honours

• Robert Hughes , for "service to art and to the promotion of Australian culture"
• Bruce Beaver , for "service to literature, particularly in the field of poetry"
• David Rowbotham , for "service to literature"
• Patricia Scott , for "service to children's literature"

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Poetry

Children and Young Adult

Science fiction and fantasy

Drama

Non-fiction

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1991 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 21 February — Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, academic, literary critic and poet (born 1915)
• 30 March — Joan Colebrook, journalist and writer (born 1910)
• 3 April — Coral Lansbury, writer and academic (born 1929)
• 7 April — Bob Brissenden, poet, novelist, critic and academic (born 1928)
• 2 May — Ronald McKie, novelist (born 1909)
• 23 May — Manning Clark, historian (born 1915)
• 24 June — Sumner Locke Elliott, novelist and playwright (born 1917)
• 17 November — Pixie O'Harris, children's book author and illustrator (born 1903)
• 1 December — Barbara Hanrahan, novelist and artist (born 1939)

See also

• 1991 in Australia
• 1991 in literature
• 1991 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References