20th-century australian novelists

Christina Stead

Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations

Miles Franklin

Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.
She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers’ organisations

J. M. Coetzee

South African-Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature