1992 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1992.

Events[]

Tim Winton won the Miles Franklin Award for Cloudstreet

Major publications[]

Novels[]

Thea Astley, Vanishing Points
Lily Brett, What God Wants
Brian Castro, After China
Helen Garner, Cosmo Cosmolino
Peter Goldsworthy, Honk If You Are Jesus
Andrew McGahan, Praise
Alex Miller (writer), The Ancestor Game

Children's and young adult fiction[]

Pamela Allen, Belinda
Brian Caswell, A Cage of Butterflies
Garry Disher, The Bamboo Flute
Anna Fienberg, Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life
Joanne Horniman, Sand Monkeys
Victor Kelleher, Del-Del
Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

Poetry[]

Beatriz Copello, Women, Souls And Shadows
Robert Harris (poet), Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
A. D. Hope, Selected Poems
Jill Jones (poet), The Mask and the Jagged Star
Les Murray (poet), Translations from the Natural World
Elizabeth Riddell, Selected Poems

Drama[]

Julia Britton, Miles Franklin
Louis Nowra
- Così
- Summer of the Aliens

Non-fiction[]

Robert Adamson (poet), Wards of the State
Stephanie Dowrick, Intimacy and Solitude
Sara Henderson, From Strength to Strength: An autobiography
A. D. Hope, Chance Encounters
Donna Williams, Nobody Nowhere

Awards and honours[]

Thea Astley for "service to Australian literature"[1]
Jack Pollard for "service to sport and sporting history"[2]

Deaths[]

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1992 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

28 January — Dora Birtles, novelist, short-story writer, poet and travel writer (born 1903)
8 February — Roland Robinson, poet, writer and collector of Australian Aboriginal myths (born 1912)
24 May — Beatrice Davis, Australia's first full-time book editor (born 1909)
19 June — Jas H. Duke, performance poet (born 1939)
1 July — Eric Irvin, writer and historian of Australian theatre (born 1908)
6 December – Mary Finnin, artist, art teacher and poet (born 1906)
21 December — Paul White, missionary, evangelist, radio program host and author of the Jungle Doctor Series (born 1910)

References[]

^ "Thea Beatrice May Astley, AM". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 25 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Jack Ernest Pollard". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 25 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[1] "Thea Beatrice May Astley, AM". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 25 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[2] "Jack Ernest Pollard". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 25 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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