Seeking to dismiss a judge for being passionate about a cause pertaining to the safety and liberation of her people reeks of a desperation to silence a critical voice Last week the State Library of ...

However you read them, there are some hot books this summer. Leonard John Matthews Summertime and reading always went together in my family. Whether we were sunbathing on hot silky beach sand or ...

“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award winner in 1962. When the weighty Cambridge History of THE ...

Two of the nation’s greatest champions of books and literature, The Australian newspaper and HarperCollins Australia, are determined to find out, announcing the creation of a new prize for Australian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Melbourne University Publishing issued a statement that Meanjin was being closed for “purely financial reasons”, the sector ...

(Reuters) - Sri Lankan-born author Michelle de Kretser won Australia's top literature prize on Wednesday, awarded the Miles Franklin award for her novel "Questions of Travel" that follows two people ...

David Malouf, one of Australia’s most celebrated novelists, poets, and essayists, has died aged 92 after a short, aggressive illness. Tributes from across the literary world have highlighted his role ...

OCT 2012: Facilities at the Manus Island Regional Processing Facility, which was closed in 2017 Correspondent An asylum seeker who wrote a book using WhatsApp while in an Australian detention center ...

The recent, sudden closure of Meanjin has brought renewed attention to Australian journals: those hardy perennials that support Australian literature year in and year out. While the sector has been ...