2022 in Australian literature

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Robbie Arnott – Limberlost
• Jessica Au – Cold Enough for Snow
• Geraldine Brooks – Horse
• Jane Caro – The Mother
• Steven Carroll – Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight
• Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
• Robert Drewe – Nimblefoot
• Katerina Gibson – Women I Know
• Gail Jones – Salonika Burning
• Yumna Kassab – The Lovers
• Robert Lukins – Loveland
• Fiona McFarlane – The Sun Walks Down
• Fiona Kelly McGregor – Iris
• Paddy O'Reilly – Other Houses
• Edwina Preston – Bad Art Mother
• Craig Sherborne – The Grass Hotel
• Steve Toltz – ''Here Goes Nothing''

Short story collections

• Katerina Gibson – Women I Know
• Mirandi Riwoe – ''The Burnished Sun''

Crime and mystery

• Shelley Burr – Wake
• Aoife Clifford – When We Fall
• Chris Hammer – The Tilt
• Jane Harper – Exiles
• Sally Hepworth – The Soulmate
• Katherine Kovacic – Seven Sisters
• Tracey Lien – All That's Left Unsaid
• Dervla McTiernan – The Murder Rule
• Michael Robotham – Lying Beside You
• Emma Viskic – Those Who Perish
• Greg Woodland – ''The Carnival is Over''

Science fiction and fantasy

• Eugen Bacon – Mage of Fools
• Grace Chan – Every Version of You
• Greg Egan
• * "After Zero"
• * "Crisis Actors"
• * "Dream Factory"
• Sean McMullen – Generation Nemesis
• Jane Rawson – A History of Dreams
• Angela Slatter – ''The Path of Thorns''

Children's and young adult fiction

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

Poetry

• Adam Aitken – Revenants
• Boey Kim Cheng – The Singer and Other Poems
• Marion May Campbell – Languish
• Brook Emery – Sea Scale: New & Selected Poems.
• Lionel Fogarty – Harvest Lingo
• Lisa Gorton – Mirabilia
• Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar
• John Kinsella – The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One
• Les Murray – Continuous Creation
• Rae White – ''Exactly As I Am''

Non-Fiction

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

Memoir

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

Awards and honours

Literary

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Crime and Mystery

International

National

Deaths

• 22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer
• 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer
• 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet
• 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist
• 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter
• 29 April – Craig Powell, poet
• 2 June – Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer
• 6 June – Helen Hodgman, novelist
• 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer
• 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist
• 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award
• 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist
• 3 August
• * Bruce Grant, writer and journalist
• * Evan Jones, poet and academic
• 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian
• 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst
• 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist
• 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian
• 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic
• 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer
• 2 December
• *Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer
• *Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer
• 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet
• December – Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist