[General] Literature from Canada, Australia, and NZ

[thedaffodils]

Hello! I have a book which mentioned about British and American literature works and their important writers or poets, but none about the rest of the English world - Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And I never hear about any literature works from these countries.

I wonder whether there're any important literature works from these countries that I don't know. If yes, what are the works?

Thanks!

[Anglika]

Lots of great writers from all three:

Canada: Centre for Language and Literature - Canadian Writers - Athabasca University
Australia: Classic Australian Works
New Zealand: List of New Zealand writers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[thedaffodils]

Hi Anglika,

Thank you very much for your help.

[Anglika]

You're welcome. Hope you find some great reads amongst these authors.

[Raymott]

Originally Posted by thedaffodils

Hi Anglika,

Thank you very much for your help.

That Australian list is very biased. It does not even contain Patrick White (our only Nobel Literature Prize winner!) or ... lots of more famous writers.
Here's my biased list, culled from:
List of Australian novelists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The ones in red, I would recommend for their Australian Content and readability

• Jessica Anderson (born 1916) Miles Franklin Literary Award winner 1978 (Tirra Lirra by the River), 1980 (The Impersonators)
• Thea Astley (1925–2004) Miles Franklin Literary Award winner 1999 (Drylands), 1972 (The Acolyte), 1965 (The Slow Natives), 1962 (The Well Dressed Explorer)
• Murray Bail (born 1941) Miles Franklin Literary Award winner 1999 (Eucalyptus)

• Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) (1826-1915) Robbery Under Arms

• Gabrielle Carey (born 1959) Puberty Blues Chick Lit
• Peter Carey (born 1943) Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda, twice Booker Prize Winner and three time Miles Franklin Award winner
• Marcus Clarke (1846–1881) For the Term of his Natural Life Historical
• Tom Collins Such is Life see Joseph Furphy below.
• Bryce Courtenay (born 1933) The Power of One

• Eleanor Dark (1901–1985) Prelude to Christopher
• Frank Dalby Davison (1893-1970)

• Nick Earls (born 1963)
• Miles Franklin (1879–1954) My Brilliant Career Her estate led to creation of the Miles Franklin Award
• Joseph Furphy (1843–1912) Such is Life. Nom de plume 'Tom Collins'

• Helen Garner (born 1942) Monkey Grip Also journalist (Cast the First Stone etc.)
• Kate Grenville (born 1950)

• Rodney Hall (born 1935) The Day We Had Hitler Home
• Frank Hardy (1917–1994) Power Without Glory

• Xavier Herbert (1901–1984) Poor Fellow My Country
• Janette Turner Hospital (born 1942)

• Paul Jennings. (born 1943) Children
• George Johnston (1912-1970) My Brother Jack.
• Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007) The Well.

• Thomas Keneally (born 1935) Schindler's Ark (1985), filmed as Schindler's List

• Henry Lawson (1867-1922) (poet and short story writer) C19
• Kathy Lette (born 1958) Chick Lit.

• Colleen McCullough (born 1937) The Thorn Birds
• David Malouf (born 1934) The Great World
• Frank Moorhouse (born 1938) Historical novelist, DarkPalace
• Sally Morgan (born 1951) My Place Aborginal writing

• Ruth Park (born 1923) The Harp in the South
• Hal Porter (1911–1984) The Tilted Cross, Better know for memoir The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony
• Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) The Goldfields Trilogy, The Roaring Nineties (1946) etc. “Coonardoo”

• Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946) The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

• Nevil Shute (1899–1960)
• Christina Stead (1902–1983) The Man Who Loved Children “For Love Alone”
• Randolph Stow (born 1935) The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea

• Colin Thiele (1920–2006) Storm Boy

• Morris West (1916–1999) The Shoes of the Fisherman
• Patrick White (1912–1990) Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature (1973) for The Eye of the Storm; innaugural winner, Miles Franklin Award 1957 - Voss. Difficult
  
• Tim Winton (born 1960 Cloudstreet

[stuartnz]

Katherine Mansfield is one of NZ's better known writers, along with Janet Frame and Margaret Mahy. Perhaps one of the most encouraging things about the development in NZ writing over the last decade or so is that one of the most successful local authors was a historian, Michael King. Sadly, my own tastes are less refined, and the NZ author I've read the most of is Ngaio Marsh, whose crime novels also served to share her deep passion for Shakespearean theatre. Mahy's work is well worth a look from the young adult point of view, and Mansfield's short stories are often surprisingly evocative of NZ for works written by someone who had fled the country. I haven't read much work by Maori authors, but Witi Ihimaera's tales are well-constructed and give interesting insights that may be partly shaped by being the work of a gay man raised in and proud of a homphobic culture. Sam Hunt's poetry is worth a look, but it really is MUCH better when read aloud by the author.

[thedaffodils]

Hi guys,

Thank you very much for taking time to answer my question.

[Tdol]

Originally Posted by Raymott

That Australian list is very biased. It does not even contain Patrick White (our only Nobel Literature Prize winner!)

And a superb writer.