1995 in Australian literature

• Helen Demidenko won the Miles Franklin Award for The Hand That Signed the Paper

• Christopher Koch AO "for service to Australian literature as a novelist"[1]
• Alexander Stewart Cockburn AM "for service to journalism and literature"[2]
• Bryce Courtenay AM "for service to advertising and marketing to the community and as an author"[3]
• Mollie Gillen AM "for service to genealogy and to Australian historical research"[4]
• Paul Jennings AM "for service to children's literature"[5]
• Frances Margaret McGuire AM "for service to the community and to literature, particularly through the State Library of South Australia"[6]
• Walter Richard McVitty AM "for service to the arts, particularly as educator and publisher of children's literature"[7]
• Maurice Saxby AM "for service to children's literature"[8]
• Gavin Souter AM "for service to Australian historical literature"[9]
• Donald Wall AM "for service to the recorded history of World war II, particularly the history of the 8th Division and the fate of prisoners of war at Sandakan, Northern Borneo"[10]
• Madeleine Ruby Irene Brunato-Arthur OAM "for service to Australian writers, particularly through the Fellowship of Australian Writers in South Australia"[11]

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1995 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 13 January — Max Harris (poet), poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher and bookseller (born 1921)[15]
• 25 January — Margaret Senior, wildlife and children's illustrator and writer (born 1917 in London)
• 20 March — Russell Braddon, writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts (born 1921)[16]
• 12 May — John Blight, poet (born 1913)
• 26 June — John Jefferson Bray, lawyer, judge, academic, university administrator, Crown officer and published poet, (born 1912)
• 17 July — Robert Close, novelist (born 1903)
• 7 August — Harold Stewart, poet and oriental scholar (born 1916)
• 14 August — Frances Margaret McGuire, writer, biochemist and philanthropist (born 1900)
• 18 August — Philip Hodgins, poet (born 1959)[17]
• 4 December — Gwen Harwood, poet and librettist (born 1920)

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