2019 in Australian literature

Literary fiction • Tony Birch – The White Girl • David Brooks – The Grass Library • Steven Carroll – The Year of the Beast • Melanie Cheng – Room for a Stranger • Peggy Frew – Islands • Peter Goldsworthy – Minotaur • John Hughes – No One • Anna Krien – Act of Grace • Melina Marchetta – The Place on Dalhousie • Andrew McGahan – ''The Rich Man's House'' (posthumous) • Gerald Murnane – A Season on Earth • Favel Parrett – There Was Still Love • Heather Rose – Bruny • Philip Salom – The Returns • Carrie Tiffany – Exploded View • Lucy Treloar – Wolfe Island • Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus • Tara June Winch – The Yield • Charlotte Wood – The Weekend Short stories • Debra Adelaide – Zebra: And Other Stories • Yumna Kassab – The House of Youssef • Josephine Rowe – Here Until August Children's and young adult fiction • Alison Evans – Highway Bodies • Mem Fox – The Tiny Star • Helena Fox – How It Feels to Float • Will Kostakis – Monuments • Tania McCartney – ''Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures'' • Meg McKinlay – Catch a Falling Star • Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu • Holden Sheppard – Invisible Boys • Vikki Wakefield – This is How We Change the Ending Crime and mystery • Matthew Condon – The Night Dragon • Pip Drysdale – The Strangers We Know • Candice Fox – Gone By Midnight • Nick Gadd – Death of a Typographer • Tara Moss – Dead Man Switch • Michael Robotham – Good Girl, Bad Girl • Dave Warner – River of Salt • Christian White – The Wife and the Widow Science fiction • John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars • Claire G. Coleman – The Old Lie • Greg Egan • The Best of Greg Egan • Perihelion Summer • "The Slipway" • "This Is Not the Way Home" • Jay Kristoff – Darkdawn • Garth Nix – Angel Mage Poetry • Louise Crisp – Yuiquimbiang • Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition • Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu • L. K. Holt – Birth Plan • Gerald Murnane – Green Shadows and Other Poems • Pi O – Heide Non-fiction • Jane Caro – Accidental Feminists • Maxine Beneba Clarke, with Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf (editors) – Growing Up African in Australia • Helen Ennis – Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography • Stan Grant • Australia Day • On Identity • Nicholas Hasluck – Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir • Jess Hill – See What You Made Me Do • Jacqueline Kent – Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook • Caro Llewellyn – Diving into Glass • Emily Maguire – This is What a Feminist Looks Like • Bianca Nogrady (editor) – The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 • Christina Thompson – Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia ==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==

• 20 January – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright (pen name of Colin Thomas Johnson)(born 1938) • 1 February – Andrew McGahan, novelist (born 1966) • 4 March – Les Carlyon, newspaper editor and nonfiction writer (born 1942) • 13 March – Edmund Capon, art historian (died in London)(born 1940 in London) • 15 March – Rudi Krausmann, playwright and poet (born 1933 in Austria) • 22 March – Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (born 1927) • 29 April – Les Murray, poet, anthologist and critic (born 1938) • 19 May – John Millett, poet, reviewer and poetry editor (born 1921) • 1 June – Christobel Mattingley, writer for children and young adults (born 1931) • 13 July – Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet and author (born 1956) • 21 July – • Laurie Hergenhan, literary scholar (born 1931) • Ann Moyal, historian of science (born 1926) • 10 September – Hal Colebatch, poet and novelist (born 1945) • 30 October – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (born 1939) • 24 November – Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died in Cambridge, England)(born 1939) ==See also==