This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1993.

Events

• Alex Miller (writer) won the Miles Franklin Award for The Ancestor Game

Major publications

Novels

• Bryce Courtenay — April Fool's Day
• Rodney Hall — The Grisly Wife
• Dorothy Hewett — The Toucher
• Elizabeth Jolley — The Georges' Wife
• David Malouf — Remembering Babylon
• Roger McDonald — Water Man
• Frank Moorhouse — Grand Days
• Madeleine St John — The Women in Black
• Morris West — The Lovers

Children's and young adult fiction

• Isobelle Carmody — The Gathering
• Carmel Charles — Winin: Why the Emu Cannot Fly
• Morris Gleitzman — Sticky Beak
• John Marsden — Tomorrow, When the War Began
• Dorothy Porter — The Witch Number

Poetry

• Robert Gray — Certain Things
• Barry Hill — Ghosting William Buckley
• Philip Hodgins — The End of the Season
• Jill Jones — Flagging Down Time
• Jennifer Maiden — Acoustic Shadow
• Jan Owen — Blackberry Season
• John Tranter — At the Florida

Drama

• Louis Nowra — Radiance

Non-fiction

• Verity Burgmann — Power and Protest: Movements for Change in Australian Society
• Hazel Rowley — Christina Stead: A Biography
• Peter Singer — How Are We to Live?

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Poetry

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1993 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 9 January — Paul Hasluck, statesman, poet, biographer and writer on politics (born 1905)^[13]
• 19 January — Nancy Keesing, poet, writer, editor and promoter of Australian literature (born 1923)^[14]
• 4 February — Leonard Frank Meares, writer of western fiction (born 1921)^[15]
• 1 March — Ronald McCuaig, poet, journalist, literary critic, humourist and children's author (born 1908)^[16]
• 23 March — Robert Harris, poet (born 1951) ^[17]
• 1 April — Kevin Gilbert, author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker (born 1933)^[18]
• 12 April — Alexander Turner, poet, playwright, and theatre and radio producer (born 1907)^[19]
• 22 April — Margaret Diesendorf, linguist, poet, editor, translator and educationist (born 1912 Vienna, Austria)^[20]
• 18 June — Alexandra Hasluck, historian (born 1908)^[21]
• 1 July – Eric Irvin, historian and poet (born 1908)^[22]
• 25 August — Florence James, author and literary agent (born 1902)^[23]
• 16 September — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet, political activist, artist and educator (born 1920)^[24]