1992 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1992.

Events

 * Tim Winton won the Miles Franklin Award for Cloudstreet

Novels

 * Thea Astley – Vanishing Points
 * Brian Castro – After China
 * Helen Garner – Cosmo Cosmolino
 * Peter Goldsworthy – Honk If You Are Jesus
 * Marion Halligan – Lovers' Knots
 * Janette Turner Hospital – The Last Magician
 * Roger McDonald – Shearers' Motel
 * Andrew McGahan – Praise
 * Alex Miller – The Ancestor Game

Children's and young adult fiction

 * Pamela Allen – Belinda
 * Brian Caswell – A Cage of Butterflies
 * Garry Disher – The Bamboo Flute
 * Anna Fienberg – Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life
 * Joanne Horniman – Sand Monkeys
 * Victor Kelleher – Del-Del
 * Melina Marchetta – Looking for Alibrandi

Crime and mystery

 * Peter Corris
 * Beware of the Dog
 * Browning, P.I.
 * The Japanese Job
 * Set Up
 * Marele Day – The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado
 * Garry Disher – Paydirt
 * Kerry Greenwood – Death at Victoria Dock
 * Gabrielle Lord – Whipping Boy
 * Jan McKemmish – Only Lawyers Dancing

Science fiction and fantasy

 * Terry Dowling – Blue Tyson
 * Greg Egan
 * "The Hundred Light-Year Diary"
 * Quarantine
 * Sean McMullen – Call to the Edge (short stories)

Poetry

 * Beatriz Copello – Women, Souls And Shadows
 * Robert Harris – Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
 * A. D. Hope – Selected Poems
 * Jill Jones – The Mask and the Jagged Star
 * Les Murray – Translations from the Natural World
 * Elizabeth Riddell – Selected Poems
 * John Tranter — The Floor of Heaven

Drama

 * Julia Britton – Miles Franklin
 * Louis Nowra
 * Così
 * Summer of the Aliens

Non-fiction

 * Robert Adamson – Wards of the State
 * Stephanie Dowrick – Intimacy and Solitude
 * Sara Henderson – From Strength to Strength: An Autobiography
 * A. D. Hope – Chance Encounters
 * Ruth Park – A Fence Around the Cuckoo
 * Donna Williams – Nobody Nowhere

Awards and honours

 * Thea Astley for "service to Australian literature"
 * Jack Pollard for "service to sport and sporting history"

Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1992 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


 * 28 January — Dora Birtles, novelist, short-story writer, poet and travel writer (born 1903)
 * 8 February — Roland Robinson, poet, writer and collector of Australian Aboriginal myths (born 1912)
 * 24 May — Beatrice Davis, Australia's first full-time book editor (born 1909)
 * 19 June — Jas H. Duke, performance poet (born 1939)
 * 22 October — Peter Pinney, novelist and travel writer (born 1922)
 * 6 December — Mary Finnin, artist, art teacher and poet (born 1906)
 * 21 December — Paul White, missionary, evangelist, radio program host and author of the Jungle Doctor Series (born 1910)