2025 in Australian literature

• Text Publishing is acquired by Penguin Random House Australia. == Major publications ==

Literary fiction • Randa Abdel-Fattah – Discipline • Moreno Giovannoni – The Immigrants • Omar Musa – Fierceland • Josephine Rowe – Little World Crime and mystery • James Bradley – Landfall • Catherine Jinks – Panic • Dervla McTiernan – The Unquiet Grave Science fiction and Fantasy • James Islington – The Strength of the Few • Angela Slatter – The Crimson Road • Emma Sloley – The Island of Last Things Children's and young adult • Margot McGovern – This Stays Between Us • Zeno Sworder – Once I Was a Giant • Lili Wilkinson – Unhallowed Halls Poetry • Eunice Andrada – KONTRA • Evelyn Araluen – The Rot Drama • Emilie Collyer – Super Non-Fiction • Robert Dessaix – Chameleon • Brenda Niall – Joan Lindsay • Micaela Sahhar – Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family • Kate Wild – The Red House == 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 — Kerry Greenwood, novelist and lawyer (born 1954) • 19 April — Damien Broderick, sf novelist (born 1944) • 5 May — Tracy Sorensen, novelist and academic (born 1963) • 10 June — Leanne Frahm, sf author (born 1946) • 6 August — David Dale, journalist and travel writer (born 1948) • 27 August — Charmaine Papertalk Green, poet and artist (born 1962) • 17 November — Robert Gray, poet and critic (born 1945) • 11 December — Jean Bedford, novelist (born 1946 in Cambridge, England) • 16 December — Chris Wallace-Crabbe, poet and academic (born 1934) == See also ==