1991 in Australian literature

• David Malouf won the Miles Franklin Award for The Great World

• Robert Hughes AO, for "service to art and to the promotion of Australian culture"[1]
• Bruce Beaver AM, for "service to literature, particularly in the field of poetry"[2]
• David Rowbotham AM, for "service to literature"[3]
• Patricia Scott AM, for "service to children's literature"[4]

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1991 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 21 February — Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, academic, literary critic and poet (born 1915)[8]
• 3 April — Coral Lansbury, writer and academic (born 1929)
• 7 April — Bob Brissenden, poet, novelist, critic and academic (born 1928)[9]
• 2 May — Ronald McKie, novelist (born 1909)
• 23 May — Manning Clark, historian (born 1915)[10]
• 24 June — Sumner Locke Elliott, novelist and playwright (born 1917)[11]
• 17 November — Pixie O'Harris, children's book author and illustrator (born 1903)[12]
• 1 December — Barbara Hanrahan, novelist and artist (born 1939)

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