Deaths
- 3 January - Barbara Jefferis, novelist and dramatist (born 1917)
- 8 January - Norman Talbot, poet (born 1936)
- 17 February - Bruce Beaver, poet (born 1928)
- 11 April - Wilbur G. Howcroft, writer for children (born 1917)
- 7 July - Elisabeth MacIntyre, writer for children (born 1916)
- 17 August - Thea Astley, novelist (born 1925)
- 8 November - Peter Mathers, novelist and short story writer (born 1931)
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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