2022 in Australian literature

• Robbie Arnott – Limberlost
• Jessica Au – Cold Enough for Snow
• Geraldine Brooks – Horse
• Jane Caro – The Mother{{cite web|title= The Mother by Jane Caro|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8629617|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Steven Carroll – Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight{{cite web|title= Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight by Stephen Carroll |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/10021275|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Shankari Chandran – Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)
• Robert Drewe – Nimblefoot{{cite web|title= Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8675184|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Katerina Gibson – Women I Know (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction){{Cite news |last=Jefferson |first=Dee |date=2023-05-22 |title=One book just won a record four out of 14 prizes at $350,000 NSW literary awards |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-22/nsw-premiers-literary-award-winners-debra-dank-indigenous-memoir/102375926 |access-date=2023-07-30}}
• Yumna Kassab – The Lovers{{cite web|title= The Lovers by Yumna Kassab|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8675420|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Robert Lukins – Loveland{{cite web|title= Loveland by Robert Lukins|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8629602|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Fiona McFarlane – The Sun Walks Down{{cite web|title= The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8674630|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Fiona Kelly McGregor – Iris{{cite web|title= Iris by Fiona McGregor|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8673596|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Paddy O'Reilly – Other Houses{{cite web|title= Other Houses by Paddy O'Reilly|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8654858|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Edwina Preston – Bad Art Mother{{cite web|title= Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8654344|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Craig Sherborne – The Grass Hotel{{cite web|title= The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8646876|access-date= 22 May 2024}}
• Steve Toltz – Here Goes Nothing{{cite web|title= Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8651219|access-date= 22 May 2024}}

• Katerina Gibson – Women I Know
• Mirandi Riwoe – The Burnished Sun{{cite web|title= The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8631728|access-date= 14 June 2024}}

• Shelley Burr – Wake{{cite web|title= Wake by Shelley Burr|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8662568|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Aoife Clifford – When We Fall{{cite web|title= When We Fall by Aoife Clifford|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8657234|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Chris Hammer – The Tilt{{cite web|title= The Tilt by Chris Hammer|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8674614|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Jane Harper – Exiles
• Sally Hepworth – The Soulmate{{cite web|title= The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8680702|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Katherine Kovacic – Seven Sisters{{cite web|title= Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8804877|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Tracey Lien – All That's Left Unsaid{{cite web|title= Austlit — All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/23664047|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Dervla McTiernan – The Murder Rule{{cite web|title= The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8650432|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Michael Robotham – Lying Beside You{{cite web|title= Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8665727|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Emma Viskic – Those Who Perish{{cite web|title= Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8628768|access-date= 12 April 2024}}
• Greg Woodland – The Carnival is Over{{cite web|title= The Carnival is Over by Greg Woodland|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8675389|access-date= 12 April 2024}}

• Eugen Bacon – Mage of Fools{{cite web|title= Mage of Fools by Eugen Bacon |publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2981535|access-date= 15 May 2024}}
• Grace Chan – Every Version of You{{cite web|title= Every Version of You by Grace Chan |publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3135600|access-date= 15 May 2024}}
• Greg Egan – "Crisis Actors"
• Sean McMullen – Generation Nemesis{{cite web|title= Generation Nemesis by Sean McMullen |publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3205709|access-date= 15 May 2024}}
• Jane Rawson – A History of Dreams{{cite web|title= A History of Dreams by Jane Rawson |publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3107248|access-date= 15 May 2024}}
• Angela Slatter – The Path of Thorns{{cite web|title= The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter |publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3042397|access-date= 15 May 2024}}

• Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke – 11 Words for Love{{cite web|title= 11 Words for Love by Randa Abdel-Fattah|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8676072|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Lian Tanner – Rita’s Revenge{{cite web|title= Rita's Revenge by Lian Tanner|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8664061|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Gabrielle Wang – Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon{{cite web|title= Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon by Gabrielle Wang|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8656514|access-date= 16 June 2024}}

• Adam Aitken – Revenants{{cite web|title= Revenants by |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8646399|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Boey Kim Cheng – The Singer and Other Poems{{cite web|title= The Singer and Other Poems by Boey Kim Cheng|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8664636|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Marion May Campbell – Languish{{cite web|title= Languish by Marion May Campbell|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8662054|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Lionel Fogarty – Harvest Lingo{{cite web|title= Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8661789|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Lisa Gorton – Mirabilia{{cite web|title= Mirabilia by Lisa Gorton|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8664837|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar{{cite web|title= The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8649559|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• John Kinsella – The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005){{cite web|title= The Ascension of Sheep by John Kinsella|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8647684|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Les Murray – Continuous Creation{{cite web|title= Continuous Creation by Les Murray|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8649758|access-date= 16 June 2024}}
• Rae White – Exactly As I Am{{cite web|title= Exactly As I Am by Rae White|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8655717|access-date= 16 June 2024}}

• Alison Bashford – An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family{{cite web|title= An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8842261|access-date= 15 June 2024}}
• Debra Dank – We Come With This Place{{cite web|title= We Come With This Place by Debra Dank|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8661954|access-date= 15 June 2024}}
• Jo Dyer – Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics{{cite web|title= Burning Down the House by |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8629429|access-date= 15 June 2024}}
• Madonna King – L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood{{cite web|title= L Platers by |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8662749|access-date= 15 June 2024}}
• Louisa Lim – Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong{{cite web|title= Indelible City by |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8664465|access-date= 15 June 2024}}
• Julianne Schultz – The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation{{cite web|title= The Idea of Australia by Julianne Schultz|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8629620|access-date= 15 June 2024}}

• Hannah Gadsby – Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation{{cite web|title= Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8649522|access-date= 14 June 2024}}
• Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On{{cite web|title="Am I Black Enough For You Ten Years On" |publisher= Charles Darwin University Bookshop|url=https://bookshop.cdu.edu.au/products/9781761046162|access-date= 14 June 2024}}
• Chloe Hooper – Bedtime Story{{cite web|title= Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8654234|access-date= 14 June 2024}}
• Anita Jacoby – Secrets Beyond the Screen{{cite web|title= Secrets Beyond the Screen by Anita Jacoby |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/23818828|access-date= 14 June 2024}}
• Wendy McCarthy – Don't Be Too Polite, Girls{{cite web|title= Don't Be Too Polite, Girls by Wendy McCarthy|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8629613|access-date= 14 June 2024}}
• Brenda Niall – My Accidental Career{{cite web|title= My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8631693|access-date= 14 June 2024}}
• Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here{{cite web|title= Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/8680054|access-date= 14 June 2024}}

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

• 22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933){{Cite web|date=2022-01-25|title=Craig McGregor Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales {{!}} Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/432874/craig-mcgregor/?r=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/search/?Query=Craig%20McGregor|access-date=2022-02-08|website=tributes.smh.com.au}}
• 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935){{Cite web |last= |title=John Bryson |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A27720 |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |language=en}}
• 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961){{Cite web |last=On |first=Thuy |date=2022-03-02 |title=Vale Jordie Albiston |url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/vale-jordie-albiston-2534457/ |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=ArtsHub Australia |language=en-AU}}
• 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50){{Cite web |date=2022-03-20 |title=Acclaimed Writer Annah Faulkner Leaves Literary Suicide Note |url=https://www.exitinternational.net/acclaimed-writer-annah-faulkner-leaves-literary-suicide-note/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Exit International |language=en-US}}
• 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934){{Cite web |last=Knox |first=David |date=2022-03-22 |title=Vale: Alan Hopgood |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/03/vale-alan-hopgood.html/ |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=TV Tonight |language=en-AU}}
• 29 April – Craig Powell, poet (born 1940){{Cite web |title=Craig Powell |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A26048 |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
• 2 June – Brian Matthews, literary scholar and writer (born 1936){{Cite web |title=Brian Matthews |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A29099 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
• 6 June – Helen Hodgman, novelist (born in Scotland) (born 1945){{cite web|title= Austlit — Helen Hodgman |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A1071|access-date= 11 November 2024}}
• 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938){{Cite news |last=Barlass |first=Tim |date=2022-06-26 |title=Author Frank Moorhouse dies aged 83 |language=en |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/author-frank-moorhouse-dies-aged-83-20220626-p5awpq.html |access-date=2022-06-26}}
• 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939){{Cite journal |last1=Engle |first1=Carole R. |last2=Leung |first2=PingSun |date=2022-07-03 |title=A tribute to Professor Clem Tisdell (1939 to 2022), founding coeditor of Aquaculture Economics & Management and member of the organizing team of the International Association of Aquaculture Economics & Management |journal=Aquaculture Economics & Management |language=en |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=251–252 |doi=10.1080/13657305.2022.2107117 |s2cid=251367109 |issn=1365-7305|doi-access=free |bibcode=2022AqEM...26..251E }}
• 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927){{Cite web |date=2022-08-10 |title=David Neil IRELAND – Death Notice |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/453583/david-neil-ireland/?r=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/search/?Query=ireland |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=Sydney Morning Herald}}
• 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942){{Cite web |date=2022-07-30 |title=Edwin WILSON: Death Notice |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/452349/edwin-wilson/?r=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=Sydney Morning Herald}}
• 3 August
• Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925){{Cite web |title=Bruce Alexander Grant Death Notice – Melbourne, Victoria {{!}} The Age |url=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/452965/bruce-alexander-grant?r=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/theage-au/ |access-date=5 August 2022 |website=tributes.theage.com.au}}
• Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931){{Cite web |date=2022-08-04 |title=Evan Lloyd Jones Death Notice |url=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/452941/evan-lloyd-jones/?r=https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/theage-au/ |access-date=2022-08-31 |website=The Age}}
• 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937){{cite web|title= Austlit — Virginia Spate |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A66554|access-date= 21 August 2023}}
• 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940){{Cite web |date=2022-09-17 |title=Dr Craig POWELL Death Notice |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/457922/dr-craig-powell |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=Sydney Morning Herald}}
• 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927){{Cite web |last=Yeldham |first=Peter |date=2022-10-24 |title=The scriptwriter whose life was like a movie |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-scriptwriter-whose-life-was-like-a-movie-20221024-p5bsd8.html |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}
• 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964){{Cite web |date=2022-10-12 |title=Angus Alexander Geoffrey TRUMBLE Death Notice |url=https://tributes.canberratimes.com.au/obituaries/460384/angus-alexander-geoffrey-trumble/ |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=Canberra Times}}
• 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938){{cite magazine |last=Chandler |first=Mark |date=18 October 2022 |title=Carmen Callil, Virago founder and author, dies aged 84 |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/carmen-callil-virago-founder-and-author-dies-aged-84 |magazine=The Bookseller |access-date=22 October 2022}}
• 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941){{Cite web |date=2022-12-03 |title=Margaret Dawn Hamilton Death Notice |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/465231/margaret-dawn-hamilton |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}
• 2 December
• Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945)[https://www.hatutan.com/2022/12/03/tl-lakon-belun-jill-jolliffe-neebe-grava-memoria-luta-ba-ukun-rasik-aan/ TL Lakon Belun Jill Jolliffe Ne’ebé Grava Memória Luta bá Ukun Rasik-Aan]
• Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935){{Cite web |last= |date=2022-12-07 |title=Vale Antigone Kefala |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/12/07/224500/vale-antigone-kefala/ |access-date=2023-03-03 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}
• 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943){{Cite web |last= |date=2023-01-11 |title=Vale Robert Adamson |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/01/11/224947/vale-robert-adamson/ |access-date=2023-03-03 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}
• December – Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (born 1952){{Cite web |title=Wendy Jenkins |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21676 |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}

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