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• The Aboriginals did not have any written literature. For Aboriginal people their traditional culture, stories, and song are seen in their literature.
• Literary writings began with European settlers.
• Themes of Australian Literature

  • Migrant Experience
  • Landscape and Environment
  • Australian Culture
  • Identity of Settlers
  • Isolation and estrangement
• Lang Leav


  Tumblr catapulted Lang Leav from best-selling poet to internet sensation (293k followers on Instagram and 732,621 likes on Facebook) in 2013
• Lang Leav: '"People who are prone to sadness are more likely to pick up a pen."'
• Famous works of Lang Leav


  • Sea of Strangers
  • Memories
  • Lullabies
  • Love and Misadventure
  • Sad Girls
• Lang Leav: '"Leave him, let him go. Don't be the crazy ex-girlfriend or the shoulder to cry on. You're more than just an ego boost, a story he can tell someone he wants to impress. Just walk away with your head held high and don't give him another second of your time. I know you love him so much that every step is killing you. But this is the moment you'll look back on as the day you put yourself first. Go and make something beautiful of your life and I promise you, one day you'll forget he was ever there."'
• Lang Leav: '"I don't know how it is you are so familiar to me- or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before- in another time, a different place - some other existence."'
• Lang Leav: '"You see," she said, "your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to-it's the first one who breaks it."'
• Charlotte Wood


  The Australian has described Charlotte Wood as one of that country's 'most original and provocative writers.' She is the author of five novels and two books of non-fiction. Her latest novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella Prize, the 2016 Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year.
• Famous works of Charlotte Wood

  • The Weekend - Three women in their 70s gather to clear out the beach house of their deceased friend Sylvie
  • The Natural Way of Things - Thought-provoking take on a dystopian world in which women are imprisoned for their involvement in sexual "crimes" and misdemeanors
• Sonya Hartnett


  Also works under the pseudonym Cameron S. Redfern) is, or was, something of an Australian child prodigy author. She wrote her first novel at the age of thirteen, and had it published at fifteen. The Age described Sonya as having 'the eye of an artist and an ear for the rhythm of language.' In 2008 Sonya won the world's most prestigious prize for children's writers, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
• Famous books of Sonya Harnett

  • OF A BOY - A beautiful, melancholy tale about a lonely, timid nine-year-old boy being raised by his grandmother
  • BLUE FLOWER - A beautifully told picture book about self-esteem, resilience and the discovery that being different can be something wonderful
  • THE MIDNIGHT - It is midnight in the Second World War and two gypsy brothers stumble upon a deserted town in their flight from the soldiers. They do not know what they will find, until they discover a zoo. The night will take them on a long journey, into their own, and the animals', tragic past. Through the stories they tell, they travel all over the world and back to the village, all the while sitting in the zoo. Their stories all revolve around the recurring theme of freedom and brutality, seen through the innocent eyes of children and animals
• North America is the third-biggest landmass by region, following Asia and Africa, and the fourth by populace after Asia, Africa, and Europe. It includes the nations of Central America, Mexico, the United States, Canada, Greenland, and the islands of the Caribbean district.
• Common Themes of North American Literature

  • Coming of Age – A young person's transition from being a child to being an adult
  • Alienation and Isolation - The experience and consequences of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong, or in which one should be involved
  • Survival of the Fittest - A justification for behavior that undermines moral standards by letting the interpretation of strength determine justice to the detriment of the weak
  • Disillusionment - The feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be
  • Relationship with Science - Technology and advancement in the world as a catalyst for change
• Stan Lee


  American comic book writer best known for his work with Marvel Comics. 2011 Winner Star on the Motion Picture Walk of Fame
• Some of the works of Stan Lee (Marvels)


  • Captain America - Lee's first writing was providing filler text in this Golden Age Captain America story, written by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. A career in comics begins.
  • The Incredible Hulk - Tortured Bruce Banner would resonate deeply with readers, particularly adults. Lee and Kirby present another Silver Age wonder – the irradiated monster Hulk.
  • The Fantastic Four - With the birth of Marvel's First Family, co-creators Kirby and Lee ushered in the Silver Age. Rejecting the notion that super heroics were juvenile, Lee redefined comics by founding a team that struggled with recognizable issues. In their first year, the FF dealt with the Cold War and bankruptcy.
  • Spider Man - Peter Parker makes his Marvel debut! Lee's inspiration for Spider-Man came of his desire to depict an adolescent hero who wasn't relegated to sidekick. Finding spiders 'spooky', Stan and artist Steve Ditko created Marvel's most globally recognized hero.
  • Thor - The Realm Eternal is brought to vivid new life in this remastered series featuring Lee and Kirby's Thor! Collecting the "Tales of Asgard" backup stories from Journey into Mystery.
• David L. Weatherford


  Is a child psychologist with published poems in "Chicken Soup for the Soul". He was born on July 20, 1952 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, USA. He died on January 7, 2010 at age 57. One of his poems is entitled "Slow Dance".
• Alfred Edward Housman


  Known as A. E. Housman, was an English traditional researcher and writer, most popular to the overall population for his pattern of sonnets "A Shropshire Lad". Melodious and practically epigrammatic in structure, the sonnets contemplatively bring out the fates and frustrations of youth in the English countryside. He was one of the premier classicists of his age and has been positioned as probably the best researcher who ever lived. One of his works is entitled "When I Was One-and-Twenty".
• Kate Chopin


  Kate Chopin was an American creator of short stories and books situated in Louisiana. She is currently considered by some scholars to have been a harbinger of American twentieth century women's activist writers of Southern or Catholic foundation. One of her works is entitled "The Story of An Hour".
• James Grover Thurber


  Was an American sketch artist, creator, comedian, writer, dramatist, and commended mind. He was most popular for
• Alfred Edward Housman, known as A. E. Housman, was an English traditional researcher and writer, most popular to the overall population for his pattern of sonnets "A Shropshire Lad"
• Housman's sonnets are melodious and practically epigrammatic in structure, contemplatively bringing out the fates and frustrations of youth in the English countryside
• Housman was one of the premier classicists of his age and has been positioned as probably the best researcher who ever lived
• Kate Chopin was an American creator of short stories and books situated in Louisiana, currently considered by some scholars to have been a harbinger of American twentieth century women's activist writers of Southern or Catholic foundation
• James Grover Thurber was an American sketch artist, creator, comedian, writer, dramatist, and commended mind, most popular for his kid's shows and short stories, published primarily in The New Yorker
• Robert Charles Benchley was an American comedian most popular for his work as a paper editorialist and film entertainer, best associated with his commitments to The New Yorker
• Latin-American Literature


  Written and oral works created by authors in parts of North America, South America, and the Caribbean
• Common themes of Latin American literature

  • Civilization vs. Barbarism
  • Politics and Resistance
  • The Construction of Identity
  • Magical realism
• Magical realism


  A literary genre that includes fantastic elements in an otherwise realistic text
• Gabriel García Márquez, one of the region's best-known writers, became famous for popularizing the genre of magical realism
• In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, García Márquez said that European literary techniques would not suffice to depict Latin American reality; because of this, he employed magical realism
• One Hundred Years of Solitude

  The history of the isolated town of Macondo and of the family who founds it, the Buendías
• Roberto Bolaño was honored by the First Conference of Latin American Authors as "the most important literary discovery of our time"
• 2666


  A novel by Roberto Bolaño, structured as a polyphonic clash of voices and dreams, all trying to make sense of the insensible
• Ana Maria Shua is an Argentine writer who has published over eighty books in numerous genres, and is particularly known in the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic as "the Queen of the Micro story"
• Antonio Utgar is a globetrotter who has lived in Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and is currently based in Palestine-Israel, devoting part of his time to writing non-fiction about his home country, Colombia, as well as the Middle East
• Jorge Luis Arzola belongs to a new generation of Cuban writers, the so-called "novísimos", who are influenced more by the new awareness of national identity resulting from the Cuban revolution, and question these ideals following the political and economic crisis facing the country after the fall of the Iron Curtain
• Lang Leav doesn't just write love poems — she spins stories, letters, and memories that make us feel like we are reading small bits of her own life, and the love she has both found and lost