Category
page 120th-century Australian women novelists

Colleen McCullough
Australian author (1937-2015)

Miles Franklin
Australian writer and feminist (1879–1954)
Joan Lindsay
Australian writer (1896-1984)
Christina Stead
Australian novelist and short-story writer
Kate Grenville
Australian writer and teacher of creative writing
Ruth Park
New Zealand-born Australian writer (1917–2010)
Helen Garner
Australian journalist, novelist and screenwriter (born 1942)
Dymphna Cusack
Australian author (1902-1981)
Alexis Wright
Indigenous Australian writer
Jessica Anderson
Australian novelist (1916-2010)
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Australian author (1883-1969)
Sonya Hartnett
Australian writer
Lily Brett
Australian writer

Mary Eliza Fullerton
Australian author, feminist

Sally Morgan
Indigenous Australian artist and writer (born 1951)

Dorothy Coade Hewett
author, playwright and poet from Western Australia (1923-2002)
Eleanor Dark
Twentieth-century Australian novelist (1901–1985)
Julia Leigh
Australian writer, film director and screen writer
Glenda Adams
Australian novelist and short story writer (1939–2007)

Tilly Aston
Australian author in text and in braille, educator and philanthropist (1873-1947)
Melissa Lucashenko
Australian writer

Louise Mack
Australian writer (1870–1935)
Kerry Greenwood
Australian crime writer
Ethel Anderson
Australian poet (1883-1958)
Charmian Clift
Australian writer (1923–1969)
Rose Zwi
South African writer (1928-2018)
Thea Astley
Australian novelist (1925-2004)
Jaclyn Moriarty
Australian writer
Charlotte Jay
Australian writer (1919-1996)

Michelle de Kretser
Australian novelist
Claire McNab
Australian writer
Jeannie Gunn
Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia volunteer (1870–1961)
Gabrielle Lord
Australian writer

Tamara McKinley
Australian author
Alison Goodman
Australian science-fiction writer
Barbara Baynton
Australian writer (1857–1929)

Alison Croggon
Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist
Jennifer Fallon
author
Jackie French
Australian author
Patricia Shaw
Australian writer (1928–2024)
Sara Douglass
Australian fantasy writer (1957–2011)
Helen de Guerry Simpson
Australian novelist and British Liberal Party politician (1897-1940)
Blanche d'Alpuget
Australian writer
Rosie Scott
New Zealand writer (1948-2017)
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian academic and writer
Kim Wilkins
Australian writer (born 1966)

Barbara Hanrahan
Australian writer and artist (1939-1991)
Ursula Dubosarsky
Australian writer
Keri Arthur
Austrian writer of fantasy, horror fiction, and romance novels

Marjorie Barnard
Australian novelist and short story writer, critic and historian
Janette Turner Hospital
Contemporary Australian writer and academic

Ruby Langford Ginibi
Indigenous Australian author and historian (1934–2011)
Mabel Forrest
Australian writer
Jean Devanny
Australian writer (1894-1962)
Diane Bell
Australian writer and anthropologist

Di Morrissey
Australian writer

Mary Grant Bruce
Australian children's writer; journalist
Traci Harding
Australian novelist (1964-)
Kate Forsyth
Australian writer
Bunty Avieson
Australian writer and academic