1992 in Australian literature

• Tim Winton won the Miles Franklin Award for Cloudstreet

• Thea Astley AO for "service to Australian literature"[1]
• Jack Pollard OAM for "service to sport and sporting history"[2]

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)
• 1 July — Eric Irvin, writer and historian of Australian theatre (born 1908)
• 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)

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