2022 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.

• Robbie Arnott – Limberlost
• Jessica Au – Cold Enough for Snow
• Jane Caro – The Mother^[1]
• Steven Carroll – Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight^[2]
• Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)^[3]
• Robert Drewe – Nimblefoot^[4]
• Katerina Gibson – Women I Know (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction)^[5]
• Yumna Kassab – The Lovers^[6]
• Robert Lukins – Loveland^[7]
• Fiona McFarlane – The Sun Walks Down^[8]
• Fiona Kelly McGregor – Iris^[9]
• Paddy O'Reilly – Other Houses^[10]
• Edwina Preston – Bad Art Mother^[11]
• Craig Sherborne – The Grass Hotel^[12]
• Steve Toltz – Here Goes Nothing^[13]

• Mirandi Riwoe – The Burnished Sun^[14]

• Shelley Burr – Wake^[15]
• Aoife Clifford – When We Fall^[16]
• Chris Hammer – The Tilt^[17]
• Jane Harper – Exiles
• Sally Hepworth – The Soulmate^[18]
• Katherine Kovacic – Seven Sisters^[19]
• Tracey Lien – All That's Left Unsaid^[20]
• Dervla McTiernan – The Murder Rule^[21]
• Michael Robotham – Lying Beside You^[22]
• Emma Viskic – Those Who Perish^[23]
• Greg Woodland – The Carnival is Over^[24]

• Eugen Bacon – Mage of Fools^[25]
• Grace Chan – Every Version of You^[26]
• Greg Egan – "Crisis Actors"
• Sean McMullen – Generation Nemesis^[27]
• Jane Rawson – A History of Dreams^[28]
• Angela Slatter – The Path of Thorns^[29]

• Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke – 11 Words for Love^[30]
• Lian Tanner – Rita’s Revenge^[31]
• Gabrielle Wang – Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon^[32]

• Adam Aitken – Revenants^[33]
• Boey Kim Cheng – The Singer and Other Poems^[34]
• Marion May Campbell – Languish^[35]
• Lionel Fogarty – Harvest Lingo^[36]
• Lisa Gorton – Mirabilia^[37]
• Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar^[38]
• John Kinsella – The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005)^[39]
• Les Murray – Continuous Creation^[40]
• Rae White – Exactly As I Am^[41]

• Alison Bashford – An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family^[42]
• Debra Dank – We Come With This Place^[43]
• Jo Dyer – Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics^[44]
• Madonna King – L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood^[45]
• Louisa Lim – Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong^[46]
• Julianne Schultz – The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation^[47]

• Hannah Gadsby – Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation^[48]
• Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On^[49]
• Chloe Hooper – Bedtime Story^[50]
• Anita Jacoby – Secrets Beyond the Screen^[51]
• Wendy McCarthy – Don't Be Too Polite, Girls^[52]
• Brenda Niall – My Accidental Career^[53]
• Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here^[54]

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

• 22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933)^[81]
• 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935)^[82]
• 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961)^[83]
• 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50)^[84]
• 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934)^[85]
• 29 April – Craig Powell, poet (born 1940)^[86]
• 2 June – Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer (born 1936)^[87]
• 6 June – Helen Hodgman, novelist (born in Scotland) (born 1945)^[88]
• 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938)^[89]
• 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939)^[90]
• 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927)^[91]
• 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942)^[92]
• 3 August
  • Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925)^[93]
  • Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931)^[94]
• 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937)^[95]
• 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940)^[96]
• 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927)^[97]
• 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964)^[98]
• 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938)^[99]
• 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941)^[100]
• 2 December
  • Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)^[101]
  • Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935)^[102]
• 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)^[103]
• December – Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (born 1952)^[104]

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