2018 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018.

• Michael Mohammed Ahmad – The Lebs
• Robbie Arnott – Flames^[1]
• Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe
• Gregory Day – A Sand Archive^[2]
• Ceridwen Dovey – In the Garden of the Fugitives^[3]
• Rodney Hall – A Stolen Season^[4]
• Gail Jones – The Death of Noah Glass
• Eleanor Limprecht – The Passengers^[5]
• Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip
• Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
• Kristina Olsson – Shell^[6]
• Ryan O'Neill – The Drover's Wives^[7]
• Kim Scott – Taboo^[8]
• Tim Winton – The Shepherd's Hut^[9]
• Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay

• Maxine Beneba Clarke – Wide Big World, illustrated by Isobel Knowles^[10]
• Mem Fox – Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again, illustrated by Judy Horacek^[11]
• Andy Griffiths – The 104-Storey Treehouse^[12]
• Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekial Kwaymullina – Catching Teller Crow^[13]
• Richard Roxburgh – Artie and the Grime Wave^[14]
• Shaun Tan
  • Cicada^[15]
  • Tales from the Inner City^[16]
• Lili Wilkinson – After the Lights Go Out^[17]

• Garry Disher – Kill Shot^[18]
• Candice Fox – Redemption Point^[19]
• Kerry Greenwood – The Spotted Dog^[20]
• Chris Hammer – Scrublands
• Jane Harper – The Lost Man
• Dervla McTiernan – The Rúin
• Kate Morton – The Clockmaker's Daughter^[21]
• Michael Robotham – The Other Wife^[22]
• Sue Williams – Live and Let Fry^[23]

• Alan Baxter
  • Hidden City^[24]
  • Devouring Dark^[25]
• Kylie Chan – Scales of Empire^[26]
• Traci Harding – This Present Past^[27]
• Jennifer Mills – Dyschronia^[28]
• Kaaron Warren – Tide of Stone^[29]

• Jordie Albiston – Warlines^[30]
• Judith Beveridge – Sun Music: New and Selected Poems^[31]
• Ken Bolton – Starting at Basheer's^[32]
• Sarah Day – Towards Light & Other Poems^[33]
• Paul Hetherington – Moonlight on Oleander^[34]
• Bella Li – Lost Lake^[35]
• John Mateer – João^[36]
• Tim Metcalf – The Underwritten Plain^[37]
• Tracy Ryan – The Water Bearer^[38]

• Alana Valentine – The Sugar House^[39]

• Peter FitzSimons – Monash's Masterpiece ^[40]
• Jacqui Lambie – Rebel with a Cause: You can't keep a bloody Lambie down — my story from soldier to senator and beyond^[41]
• Vicki Laveau-Harvie – The Erratics^[42]
• Bri Lee – Eggshell Skull
• Anne Summers – Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir^[43]
• Gillian Triggs – Speaking Up^[44]
• Nadia Wheatley – Her Mother's Daughter^[45]

• Cynthia Banham – A Certain Light^[46]
• Steve Biddulph – Raising Boys In The Twenty-First Century: How To Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind And Strong Men^[47]
• Behrouz Boochani – No Friend But the Mountains
• Stephen Gapps – The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788–1817^[48]
• Richard Glover – The Land Before Avocado^[49]
• Billy Griffiths – Deep Time Dreaming^[50]
• Anita Heiss (editor) – Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia^[51]
• Chloe Hooper – The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire^[52]
• Thomas Keneally – Australians: A Short History^[53]
• Meredith Lake – The Bible in Australia: A cultural history^[54]
• Michael C. Madden – The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers^[55]
• Leigh Sales – Any Ordinary Day^[56]

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

• 6 March – Peter Nicholls, writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (born 1939)^[83]
• 8 March – Peter Temple, author of Jack Irish series (born 1946)^[84]
• 3 April – Noela Young, children's book illustrator and writer (born 1930)^[85][86]
• 14 April – Frank Bren, Australian actor and playwright (born 1943)^[87]
• 16 April – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer (born 1941)^[88]
• 1 June – Jill Ker Conway, academic and memoir writer, author of The Road from Coorain (born 1934)^[89]
• 2 June – Tony Morphett, screenwriter and novelist (born 1938)^[90]
• 30 August – Peter Corris, crime novelist (born 1942)^[91]
• 31 August – Ian Jones author and television writer and director (born 1931)^[92]
• 12 September – Albert Ullin OAM, German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore, The Little Bookroom (born 1930)^[93]
• 16 September – John Molony, historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University (born 1927)^[94]
• 6 October – James Cowan, author (born 1942)^[95]
• 21 October – Eleanor Witcombe, screenwriter and playwright (born 1923)^[96]
• 22 October
  • Anne Fairbairn, poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture (born 1928)^[97]
  • Rose Zwi, novelist (born 1928)^[98]
• 22 November – Judith Rodriguez, poet and academic (born 1936)^[99]

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