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About Austlit
Austlit is an Australian literature resource with a database that provides authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
AustLit includes:
- citations and, where possible, the full text of creative Australian literature: fiction, drama, poetry, children's and young adult literature, travel writing, autobiography, memoir, biography, essays, Indigenous life stories and oral history
- critical material on Australian literary works, creative writers, and on Australian literature in general
- biographical material about Australian writers and other significant figures in Australian literature
- material about organisations concerned with the development and production of Australian literature and its distribution such as publishers,distributors, literary agencies, magazines, journals and newspapers, writers' groups and the Literature Fund of the Australia Council
- other information relating to Australian creative writers and their works (eg. awards, prizes and literature funding, manuscript information)
