2022 in Australian literature

Non-Fiction

• Alison Bashford – An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
• Debra Dank – We Come With This Place
• Jo Dyer – Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics
• Madonna King – L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood
• Louisa Lim – Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
• Julianne Schultz – The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation

Memoir

• Hannah Gadsby – Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation
• Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On
• Chloe Hooper – Bedtime Story
• Anita Jacoby – Secrets Beyond the Screen
• Wendy McCarthy – Don't Be Too Polite, Girls
• Brenda Niall – My Accidental Career
• Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

Awards and honours

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

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

Children and Young Adult

Crime and Mystery

International

National

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933)
• 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935)
• 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961)
• 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50)
• 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934)
• 29 April – Craig Powell, poet (born 1940)
• 2 June – Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer (born 1936)
• 6 June – Helen Hodgman, novelist (born in Scotland) (born 1945)
• 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938)
• 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939)
• 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927)
• 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942)
• 3 August
• Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925)
• Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931)
• 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937)
• 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940)
• 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927)
• 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964)
• 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938)
• 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941)
• 2 December
• Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)
• Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935)
• 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)
• December – Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (born 1952)

See also

• 2022 in Australia
• 2022 in literature
• 2022 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature

References