• Source: 1939 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1939.




Events


The Queenslander ceases publication after the last edition on February 22 1939. The magazine was first published on February 3 1866 by Thomas Blacket Stephens in Brisbane and published serialised novels, poems and short stories by many Australian writers.




Literary novels


Erle Cox – Fool's Harvest
Miles Franklin and Dymphna Cusack – Pioneers on Parade
Michael Innes – Stop Press
Will Lawson – In Ben Boyd's Day
Jack Lindsay – Lost Birthright
Myra Morris – Dark Tumult
Henry Handel Richardson – The Young Cosima
Alice Grant Rosman – William's Room
Nevil Shute – What Happened to the Corbetts (aka Ordeal)
Kylie Tennant – Foveaux
F. J. Thwaites – Fever
Patrick White – Happy Valley




Short stories


Katharine Susannah Prichard
"The Flight"
"Painted Finches"
Dal Stivens – "Solemn Mass"




Crime and mystery


Arthur Gask
The Fall of a Dictator
The Vengeance of Larose
E. V. Timms – Dark Interlude
Arthur Upfield – The Mystery of Swordfish Reef




Children's


Mary Grant Bruce – Son of Billabong
Connie Christie – The Adventures of Pinkishell
Dorothy Wall – The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill




Poetry



Mary Gilmore – Battlefields
A. D. Hope – "Australia"
Hugh McCrae – Poems
Furnley Maurice – "Whenever I Have..."
Kenneth Slessor
"Five Bells"
"South Country"
Brian Vrepont – "The Miracle"




Drama






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Sumner Locke Elliott – Crazy Family
Trevor Heath – Spinney Under the Rain




= Theatre

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Sumner Locke Elliott
The Cow Jumped Over the Moon
Interval




Awards and honours






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Births


A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1939 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

4 January – J. S. Harry, poet (died 2015)
29 January – Germaine Greer, theorist, academic and journalist
19 February – Beatrice Faust, co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby, journalist and author (died 2019)
25 February – Gerald Murnane, novelist
12 July – Phillip Adams, broadcaster and journalist
22 August – Peter Steele, poet (died 2012)
6 September – Barbara Hanrahan, writer (died 1991)
7 October – Clive James, poet, novelist and critic (died 2019)
9 October – John Pilger, journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker (died 2023 in London)
13 October – Suzanne Edgar, poet, short story writer and historian
14 December – John Baxter, novelist and biographer
30 December – Glenda Adams, novelist (died 2007)
Unknown date

Jas H. Duke, performance poet (died 1992)




Deaths


A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1939 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

3 May – Hilary Lofting, novelist, travel writer, journalist and editor (born 1881)
4 November — Amy Mack, writer, journalist and editor (born 1876)
19 December – Edward Sorenson, poet (born 1869)




See also


1939 in Australia
1939 in literature
1939 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature




References

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