This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2025.
Events
- Text Publishing is acquired by Penguin Random House Australia.
Major publications
Literary fiction
Crime and mystery
Science fiction and Fantasy
Children's and young adult
- Margot McGovern â This Stays Between Us
- Zeno Sworder â Once I Was a Giant
- Lili Wilkinson â Unhallowed Halls
Poetry
Drama
- Emilie Collyer â Super
Non-Fiction
- Robert Dessaix â Chameleon
- Brenda Niall â Joan Lindsay
- Micaela Sahhar â Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Literary
Fiction
Children and Young Adult
Crime and Mystery
National
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Deaths
- 26 March â Kerry Greenwood, novelist and lawyer (born 1954)
- 19 April â Damien Broderick, sf novelist (born 1944)
- 5 May â Tracy Sorensen, novelist and academic (born 1963)
- 10 June â Leanne Frahm, sf author (born 1946)
- 6 August â David Dale, journalist and travel writer (born 1948)
- 27 August â Charmaine Papertalk Green, poet and artist (born 1962)
- 17 November â Robert Gray, poet and critic (born 1945)
- 11 December â Jean Bedford, novelist (born 1946 in Cambridge, England)
- 16 December â Chris Wallace-Crabbe, poet and academic (born 1934)
See also
References