Australian literature grew slowly within the many years following European settlement though Indigenous oral traditions, a lot of which have since been recorded in writing, are a lot older.
In the 19th-century, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson captured the expertise of the bush using a particular Australian vocabulary. Their works are nonetheless well-liked; Paterson’s bush poem “Waltzing Matilda” is considered Australia’s unofficial national anthem. Miles Franklin is the namesake of Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually to one of the best novel about Australian life. Its first recipient, Patrick White, went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. Australian Booker Prize winners include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally and Richard Flanagan.
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