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Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature.
For example, in 2008, the ARC provided A$500,000 for a project to complete the retrospective record of Australian book history, establish a new resource for historical research on children's literature, and further develop the database of Indigenous Australian writers and story tellers (see BlackWords below). [5]
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of ...
Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
The study of books and other texts as artifacts or traditions is instead encompassed by textual criticism or the history of the book. "Literature", as an art form, is sometimes used synonymously with literary fiction, fiction written with the goal of artistic merit, but can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography ...
Indigenous Australian literature is the fiction, plays, poems, essays and other works authored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. While a letter written by Bennelong to Governor Arthur Phillip in 1796 is the first known work written in English by an Aboriginal person, David Unaipon was the first Aboriginal author to ...
He taught English and Australian literature (and in later years, solely the latter) until the early 1990s at Flinders. He was a frequent visitor to Italy, where he taught Australian literature, and spent 1974 at Exeter University. In 1986 he held a Fulbright Fellowship and taught at the University of Oregon.
This lists Australian children’s and young adult books that feature Australia’s culturally diverse population and understanding the similarities and differences between cultures. The NCACL Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Resource was launched in 2020 This resource has over 500 books by, for and about First Nations people. Stage One ...