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Top 100 Writers in Australia

The most publicly visible writers in Australia.

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The most famous writers in Australia right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	78	Sam Chui	Australia	Writers	70.6	0.5
#2	1	Patrick White	Australia	Writers	67.2	10.0
#3	1	Steve Irwin	Australia	Writers	65.4	2.2
#4	1	Germaine Greer	Australia	Writers	64.2	10.4
#5	1	Jasmuheen	Australia	Writers	64.1	0.0
#6	1	Steve Kilbey	Australia	Writers	61.9	2.6
#7	1	Greg Egan	Australia	Writers	60.9	0.0
#8	1	Robert Hughes	Australia	Writers	59.1	6.9
#9	1	Ned Kelly	Australia	Writers	58.6	0.3
#10	1	Will Power	Australia	Writers	58.0	10.0
#11	1	Thomas Keneally	Australia	Writers	56.9	4.2
#12	1	P. L. Travers	Australia	Writers	56.6	0.0
#13	1	Matthew Nable	Australia	Writers	56.5	2.4
#14	1	Leigh Whannell	Australia	Writers	56.4	0.2
#15	1	Richard Flanagan	Australia	Writers	56.3	16.6
#16	1	James Clavell	Australia	Writers	56.2	0.0
#17	1	David Malouf	Australia	Writers	56.1	10.9
#18	1	Colleen McCullough	Australia	Writers	55.1	0.2
#19	1	Rhonda Byrne	Australia	Writers	54.7	0.2
#20	1	Miles Franklin	Australia	Writers	54.7	4.1
#21	1	Andrew Barton Paterson	Australia	Writers	54.6	1.0
#22	1	Henry Lawson	Australia	Writers	54.5	1.5
#23	1	Markus Zusak	Australia	Writers	54.4	0.1
#24	1	DBC Pierre	Australia	Writers	54.3	2.9
#25	1	Matthew Reilly	Australia	Writers	54.1	5.2
#26	1	Liane Moriarty	Australia	Writers	54.0	0.0
#27	1	Bill Hayden	Australia	Writers	54.0	4.7
#28	1	Edward Cassidy	Australia	Writers	53.8	14.0
#29	1	Peter Carey	Australia	Writers	53.6	0.0
#30	1	Geraldine Brooks	Australia	Writers	53.6	0.0
#31	1	John Pilger	Australia	Writers	53.6	0.0
#32	1	Kate Morton	Australia	Writers	53.4	2.0
#33	1	GD Gregory David Roberts	Australia	Writers	53.3	0.9
#34	1	GM Gerald Murnane	Australia	Writers	52.8	22.0
#35	1	Morris West	Australia	Writers	52.7	0.0
#36	1	Shaun Tan	Australia	Writers	52.7	0.0
#37	1	Norman Lindsay	Australia	Writers	52.4	5.7
#38	1	Garth Nix	Australia	Writers	52.3	0.8
#39	1	Yahoo Serious	Australia	Writers	52.1	5.4
#40	1	Judith Wright	Australia	Writers	52.1	11.5
#41	1	Michael Robotham	Australia	Writers	52.0	6.0
#42	1	Ivan Southall	Australia	Writers	52.0	10.0
#43	1	Chris Lilley	Australia	Writers	51.6	1.7
#44	1	Sanu Sharma	Australia	Writers	51.5	2.6
#45	1	Breaker Morant	Australia	Writers	51.4	1.1
#46	1	Trudi Canavan	Australia	Writers	51.4	0.0
#47	1	Les Murray	Australia	Writers	51.3	4.2
#48	1	Tim Winton	Australia	Writers	51.3	0.0
#49	1	Sheila Fitzpatrick	Australia	Writers	51.1	1.1
#50	1	Dorothea Mackellar	Australia	Writers	51.1	5.1
#51	1	Donna Williams	Australia	Writers	51.0	2.6
#52	1	Jay Kristoff	Australia	Writers	50.9	1.9
#53	1	Oodgeroo Noonuccal	Australia	Writers	50.8	0.0
#54	1	Anthony Hayes	Australia	Writers	50.7	5.2
#55	1	Cordelia Fine	Australia	Writers	50.6	10.2
#56	1	Jason Gann	Australia	Writers	50.3	7.0
#57	1	Joan Lindsay	Australia	Writers	50.3	0.5
#58	1	Lily Brett	Australia	Writers	50.2	8.0
#59	1	Luke Davies	Australia	Writers	50.2	9.5
#60	1	Tony McNamara	Australia	Writers	50.1	0.0
#61	1	Jane Harper	Australia	Writers	50.1	0.0
#62	1	Jessica Jacobs	Australia	Writers	50.1	15.0
#63	1	Jeffrey Walker	Australia	Writers	50.1	19.9
#64	1	Craig Pearce	Australia	Writers	50.0	19.2
#65	1	LH Lincoln Hall	Australia	Writers	50.0	1.5
#66	1	Christos Tsiolkas	Australia	Writers	49.9	6.1
#67	1	Andy Griffiths	Australia	Writers	49.9	1.3
#68	1	May Gibbs	Australia	Writers	49.7	20.2
#69	1	Paul Brickhill	Australia	Writers	49.7	7.6
#70	1	DH David Holmgren	Australia	Writers	49.6	4.0
#71	1	SR Samantha Riley	Australia	Writers	49.5	2.2
#72	1	Andrew Peacock	Australia	Writers	49.4	2.5
#73	1	Gilbert Murray	Australia	Writers	49.4	1.1
#74	1	John Marsden	Australia	Writers	49.4	0.0
#75	1	Patricia Wrightson	Australia	Writers	49.3	6.1
#76	1	Christina Stead	Australia	Writers	49.2	1.7
#77	1	Peter Temple	Australia	Writers	49.2	7.0
#78	1	SM Sally Morgan	Australia	Writers	49.1	9.1
#79	1	Katharine Susannah Prichard	Australia	Writers	49.0	4.4
#80	—	AW Alexis Wright	Australia	Writers	49.0	0.7
#81	—	Louisa Lawson	Australia	Writers	48.9	3.0
#82	—	Kerry Greenwood	Australia	Writers	48.9	1.4
#83	—	Graeme Simsion	Australia	Writers	48.9	5.3
#84	—	Dave Sharma	Australia	Writers	48.8	5.2
#85	—	KC Kenneth Cook	Australia	Writers	48.8	8.3
#86	—	Judy Morris	Australia	Writers	48.7	6.7
#87	—	Henry Handel Richardson	Australia	Writers	48.7	7.0
#88	—	Simon Stone	Australia	Writers	48.6	0.2
#89	—	Jerome Ehlers	Australia	Writers	48.6	5.5
#90	—	RL Richard Lowenstein	Australia	Writers	48.5	4.3
#91	—	Pearl Gibbs	Australia	Writers	48.5	6.6
#92	—	William Cooper	Australia	Writers	48.4	6.8
#93	—	George Pearce	Australia	Writers	48.4	0.0
#94	—	DS Dale Spender	Australia	Writers	48.4	6.7
#95	—	Steve Toltz	Australia	Writers	48.4	4.8
#96	—	Anna Funder	Australia	Writers	48.3	0.0
#97	—	Paul Leyden	Australia	Writers	48.2	18.1
#98	—	JM Jonathan M. Shiff	Australia	Writers	48.1	0.0
#99	—	Lyndal Roper	Australia	Writers	48.0	4.2
#100	—	Liam Davison	Australia	Writers	48.0	0.6

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