2024 in Australian literature

This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024.

Events

 * Both the chief executive and deputy chairman quit over promotional material released for the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival

Literary fiction

 * Amy Brown – My Brilliant Sister
 * Charmian Clift – The End of the Morning
 * Gail Jones – One Another
 * Meg Keneally – Free

Crime and mystery

 * Garry Disher – Sanctuary
 * Candice Fox – Devil's Kitchen
 * Sulari Gentill – The Mystery Writer
 * Dervla McTiernan – What Happened to Nina?
 * Louise Milligan – Pheasants Nest

Science fiction and Fantasy

 * Greg Egan – Morphotrophic
 * Kate Forsyth – Psyckhe
 * Angela Slatter – The Briar Book of the Dead

Children's and young adult

 * Lili Wilkinson – Deep is the Fen

Non-Fiction

 * James Bradley – Deep Water

Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Deaths

 * 13 January – David Hansen, art historian (born 1958)
 * 4 February – Lowitja O'Donoghue, public administrator and Indigenous rights advocate (born 1932)
 * 19 February – Marion Halligan, novelist, short story writer, reviewer and essayist (born 1940)
 * 25 March – Ian Heads, historian and journalist (born 1943)
 * 30 April – Lyndall Ryan, historian (born 1943)
 * 10 May – Hugh Edwards, journalist, author and marine photographer (born 1933 in Scotland)