Australian Literature
Australian Literature
The huge country with its complicated past has given the world some great literature. From indigenous writers or children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, from books set in modern day Australia to those exploring its past and the relationship between the two – the literature of the country is as vast and varied as its natural landscapes.
The huge country with its complicated past has given the world some great literature. From indigenous writers or children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, from books set in modern day Australia to those exploring its past and the relationship between the two – the literature of the country is as vast and varied as its natural landscapes.
Which indigenous author’s original name was changed because her mother’s employer thought the name ‘Nugi’ was stupid?
Which stunning 2005 Australian novel is narrated by Death?
Which best selling novel set mainly in Australia begins with the line ‘James Macfadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old…’?
Which novel did best selling author Thomas Keneally publish in 1982 that won him the Booker Prize?
In which 2012 novel do a lighthouse keeper and his wife informally adopt a baby who they discover in a lifeboat?
Which Australian author wrote The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden?
Which post-apocalyptic novel focuses on a group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation following a nuclear war?
Bryce Courtenay was one of Australia’s top selling novelists. Where was he born?
Which 2008 novel is shown through the viewpoints of eight characters during a social gathering in suburban Melbourne?
Which of Kate Grenville’s novels was written to help her explore her own family’s history and the great-great-great grandfather who was transported to Australia in 1806?
Which indigenous author wrote That Deadman Dance about the Noongar people whose land is invaded by ships from England?
Which novel by John Marsden is the first in a series of dystopian novels for young adults told in first person by Ellie Linton?
In which book by an indigenous author do three girls escape from a ‘native settlement’ and travel 1500 miles to return to their families?
What year was the first book published in Australia?
Which Thomas Keneally novel is set in Sydney Cove in 1789?
Which classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner is set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s and relates the adventures of the mischievous Woolcot children?
Which 1901 novel focuses on Sybylla Melvyn, an imaginative, headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia in the 1890s?
Which Tim Winton novel tells of the Pickles and Lamb families?
Whose first novel in 1991 was Heart of the Dreaming and most recent novel was A Distant Journey with over 20 novels in between?
Which 2013 novel tells the story of an Australian doctor haunted by memories of a love affair with his uncle's wife and of his shocking experiences as a prisoner of war?
Which Australian author wrote The Thorn Birds?
Which award winning novel by indigenous writer, Alexis Wright, tells the interconnected stories of inhabitants of the fictional town of Desperance, Queensland?
Finish the title of this 1967 classic historical novel - Picnic at --- Rock.
Which 2013 novel centres on a genetics professor who devises a questionnaire to assess the suitability of female partners?
Which Australian author is one of only four authors to have won the Booker prize twice?