2018 in Australian literature

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

• 6 March – Peter Nicholls, writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (born 1939)[16]
• 8 March – Peter Temple, author of Jack Irish series (born 1946)[17]
• 3 April – Noela Young, children's book illustrator and writer (born 1930)[18][19]
• 14 April – Frank Bren, Australian actor and playwright (born 1943)[20]
• 16 April – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer (born 1941)[21]
• 1 June – Jill Ker Conway, academic and memoir writer, author of The Road from Coorain (born 1934)[22]
• 2 June – Tony Morphett, screenwriter and novelist
• 30 August – Peter Corris, crime novelist (born 1942)[23]
• 31 August – Ian Jones author and television writer and director (born 1931)[24]
• 12 September – Albert Ullin OAM, German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore, The Little Bookroom (born 1930)[25]
• 16 September – John Molony, historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University (born 1927)[26]
• 6 October – James Cowan, author (born 1942)[27]
• 21 October – Eleanor Witcombe, screenwriter and playwright (born 1923)[28]
• 22 October
  • Anne Fairbairn, poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture (born 1928)[29]
  • Rose Zwi, novelist (born 1928)[30]
• 22 November – Judith Rodriguez, poet and academic (born 1936)[31]

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