List of Indigenous Australian writers

Numerous Indigenous Australians are notable for their contributions to Australian literature and journalism. Indigenous Australian literature includes fiction, plays, letters, essays and other works.

Literature

Faith Bandler – activist and novelist
Larissa Behrendt – activist, lawyer and novelist
Lisa Bellear – dramatist and poet
Charmaine Bennell – children's fiction
Iris Burgoyne – autobiographer
Burnum Burnum – writer and educator, tireless proponent of reconciliation
Ken Canning – poet and activist
Mary Carmel Charles – children's fiction
Claire G. Coleman – writer and poet
Jack Davis – poet and playwright
Wesley Enoch – playwright, director
Lionel Fogarty – poet and activist
Richard Frankland – playwright, scriptwriter and musician
Kevin Gilbert – activist, writer, artist
Jane Harrison – playwright
Ruth Hegarty – writer
Anita Heiss – novelist, poet and children's author
Kate Howarth – writer, memoirist
Marnie Kennedy – autobiographer
Ruby Langford Ginibi – writer, historian, autobiographer
Melissa Lucashenko – novelist
Ray Mancini – writer, educator
Philip McLaren – author, academic and artist
Olga Miller – historian, artist and author
Sally Morgan – writer
Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) – poet, author, playwright (note: Johnson's Aboriginality is contested by many)
Big Bill Neidjie – last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) – poet
Bruce Pascoe
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Kerry_Reed-Gilbert (1956–2019) – activist, writer, artist, editor, educator
Ronald Roe – writer
Kim Scott – novelist
Kirli Saunders – author and poet
Jared Thomas – writer, and arts curator
Margaret Tucker – activist and author of If Everyone Cared (1977), one of the first autobiographies of the Stolen Generations
David Unaipon (1872–1967) – first published Aboriginal author
James Unaipon (1835–1907) – author and preacher
Ellen van Neerven – novelist and poet
Sam Watson – novelist and filmmaker
Samuel Wagan Watson – poet
Herb Wharton – poet and novelist
Tara June Winch – novelist
Alexis Wright – Miles Franklin Award winning novelist