This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022.
Major publications
Literary fiction
Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
Jane Caro, The Mother
Steven Carroll, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight
Shankari Chandran, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award)
Robert Drewe, Nimblefoot
Katerina Gibson, Women I Know (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) Robert Lukins, Loveland Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris Paddy O'Reilly, Other Houses Edwina Preston, Bad Art Mother Craig Sherborne, The Grass Hotel Steve Toltz, Here Goes Nothing
Short story collections
Mirandi Riwoe, The Burnished Sun
Non-Fiction
Alison Bashford, An Intimate History of Evolution: The Huxleys in Nature and Culture Debra Dank, We Come With This Place Jo Dyer, Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics Madonna King, L Platers:How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood Louisa Lim, Indelible City: Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong Julianne Schulz, The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation
Children's and young adult fiction
Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke, 11 Words for Love
Lian Tanner, Rita’s Revenge
Gabrielle Wang, Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon
Crime
Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule
Poetry
Adam Aitken, Revenants
Boey Kim Cheng, The Singer and Other Poems
Marion May Campbell, Languish
Lionel Fogarty, Harvest Lingo
Lisa Gorton, Miribilia
Sarah Holland-Batt, The Jaguar
John Kinsella, The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980–2005) Les Murray, Continuous Creation Rae White, Exactly As I Am
Memoir
Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation
Anita Heiss, Am I Black Enough For You? Ten years on
Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story
Anita Jacoby, Secrets Beyond the Screen
Wendy McCarthy, Don't Be Too Polite, Girls
Brenda Niall, My Accidental Career
Heather Rose, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Fiction
Children and Young Adult
Crime and Mystery
National
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Deaths
22 January – Craig McGregor, journalist and writer (born 1933) 5 February – John Bryson, writer and lawyer (born 1935) 1 March – Jordie Albiston, poet (born 1961) 8 March – Annah Faulkner, novelist (born 1949/50) 19 March – Alan Hopgood, playwright and screenwriter (born 1934) 26 June – Frank Moorhouse, writer (born 1938) 14 July – Clem Tisdell, economist (born 1939) 26 July – David Ireland, novelist and three-time winner of Miles Franklin Award (born 1927) 27 July – Edwin Wilson, poet, painter, scientist (born 1942) 3 August Bruce Grant, writer and journalist (born 1925) Evan Jones, poet and academic (born 1931) 12 August – Virginia Spate, art historian (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1937) 29 August – Craig Powell, poet and psychoanalyst (born 1940) 20 September – Peter Yeldham, screenwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1927) 8 October – Angus Trumble, art curator and historian (born 1964) 17 October – Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic (died in the United Kingdom) (born 1938) 24 November – Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and writer (born 1941) 2 December Jill Jolliffe, journalist and non-fiction writer (born 1945) Antigone Kefala, poet and prose-writer (born in Romania) (born 1935) 16 December – Robert Adamson, poet (born 1943)