2016 in Australian literature

• The Mona Brand Award is awarded for the first time. ==Major publications==

Literary fiction • Melissa Ashley – ''The Birdman's Wife'' • Georgia Blain – Between a Wolf and a Dog • Don Dennis – The Guns of Muschu • Hannah Kent – The Good People • Jennifer Maiden – Play with Knives • Liane Moriarty – Truly Madly Guilty • Ryan O'Neill – Their Brilliant Careers • Heather Rose – The Museum of Modern Love • Philip Salom – Waiting • Graeme Simsion – The Best of Adam Sharp • Dominic Smith – The Last Painting of Sara de Vos • Josephine Wilson – Extinctions Children's and young adult fiction • Trace Balla – Rockhopping • Maxine Beneba Clarke – The Patchwork Bike • Georgia Blain – Special • John Flanagan – The Battle of Hackham Heath • Andy Griffiths • The Tree House Fun Book • The 78-Storey Treehouse • Zana Fraillon – The Bone Sparrow • Tania McCartney – ''Smile/Cry: A Beginner's Book of Feelings'' • Shivaun Plozza – Frankie • Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave • Claire Zorn – One Would Think the Deep Crime and mystery • Peter Corris – That Empty Feeling • Candice Fox and James Patterson – Never Never • Jane Harper – The Dry • Emily Maguire – An Isolated Incident • Barry Maitland – Slaughter Park • Adrian McKinty – Rain Dogs • Matthew Reilly – The Four Legendary Kingdoms • Jock Serong – The Rules of Backyard Cricket • David Whish-Wilson – Old Scores • Laura Elizabeth Woollett – The Love of a Bad Man Science fiction and fantasy • Alison Croggon – The Bone Queen • Jay Kristoff – Nevernight • Juliet Marillier – Den of Wolves • Anthony O'Neill – The Dark Side • C. S. Pacat – Kings Rising • Lian Hearn – Emperor of the Eight Islands • Angela Slatter – Vigil Poetry • Peter Boyle – Ghostspeaking • Maxine Beneba Clarke – Carrying the World • Brook Emery — Have Been and Are • John Kinsella – Drowning in Wheat • Berndt Sellheim – Awake at the Wheel • Susan Varga – Rupture: Poems 2012–2015 Drama • Leah Purcell – ''The Drover's Wife'' • David Morton – The Wider Earth Biographies • Deng Thiak Adut with Ben McKelvey – Songs of a War Boy: My Story • Julia Baird – Victoria: The Queen • Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Boy • Mark Colvin – ''Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son'' • Suzanne Falkiner – Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow • Stan Grant – Talking to My Country • Cory Taylor – Dying: A Memoir 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==