2016 in Australian literature

Non-fiction

• Richard Fidler – Ghost Empire
• Peter FitzSimons – Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: Why a French town will never forget the Anzacs
• Clementine Ford – Fight Like A Girl
• Helen Garner – Everywhere I Look
• David Hunt – True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2
• Lynne Kelly – The Memory Code
• Tara Moss – Speaking Out: A 21st Century Handbook For Women and Girls

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

National

Children and young adult

National

Crime and mystery

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-fiction

Deaths

• 31 January – David Lake, science fiction novelist (born 1929 in India)
• 3 February – Dimitris Tsaloumas, poet (born 1921 in Greece)
• 6 February – John Patterson, screenwriter, lyricist, playwright and children's author
• 19 February – Kim Gamble, illustrator of children's books (born 1952)
• 3 April – Bob Ellis, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator (born 1942)
• 20 April – Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, author, editor and academic (born 1924)
• 16 May – Gillian Mears, short story writer and novelist (born 1964)
• 5 July – Cory Taylor, writer (born 1955)
• 15 July – Billy Marshall Stoneking, poet, playwright, filmmaker and teacher (born 1947 in Orlando, Florida)
• 4 September – Richard Neville, writer and social commentator (born 1941)
• 8 September – Inga Clendinnen, author and historian (born 1934)
• 3 October – Narelle Oliver, award-winning children's author-illustrator, artist and print maker (born 1960)
• 19 November – Margaret Paice, children's writer and illustrator (born 1920)
• 9 December – Georgia Blain, novelist, journalist and biographer (born 1964)
• 12 December –
• Anne Deveson, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and social commentator (born 1930 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• Shirley Hazzard, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died in Manhattan, New York)(born 1931)

See also

• 2016 in Australia
• 2016 in literature
• 2016 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature
• List of Australian literary awards

References

Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.