澳大利亚文学属于新兴文学,文史学家通常将1788年澳大利亚建国的年代作为澳大利亚文学史的起始点。在最初的100年间,澳大利亚文学基本上是仿效英国文风,受英国作家和文学流派的影响,大多数作品都带有殖民化的烙印。直至19世纪末,经历了声势浩大的民族主义运动后,具有本国特色的 Australian literature belongs to emerging literature, and historians of literature usually take Australia’s founding of 1788 as the starting point of the history of Australian literature. In the first 100 years, Australian literature essentially followed English style and was influenced by British writers and literary genres, most of which were colonized. Until the late 19th century, after a massive nationalist movement, with its own characteristics