- Source: 1948 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1948.
Books
Eleanor Dark – Storm of Time
George Johnston – The Moon at Perigee
Jack Lindsay – Men of Forty-Eight
Alan Moorehead – The Rage of the Vulture
Vance Palmer – Golconda
Ruth Park – The Harp in the South
Katharine Susannah Prichard – Golden Miles
Nevil Shute – No Highway
Christina Stead – A Little Tea, a Little Chat
F. J. Thwaites – The Night Closed Down
E. V. Timms – Forever to Remain
Patrick White – The Aunt's Story
Short stories
A. Bertram Chandler – "Dawn of Nothing"
Helen Meggs – "Burning Off"
Judah Waten – "Black Girl in the Street"
Crime and mystery
George Johnston – Death Takes Small Bites
Arthur Upfield
An Author Bites the Dust
The Mountains Have a Secret
June Wright – Murder in the Telephone Exchange
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – They Found a Cave
Poetry
David Campbell – "The End of Exploring"
Dulcie Deamer – The Silver Branch : Twenty-Seven Poems
Rosemary Dobson
"Carried Away"
"On a Tapestry"
The Ship of Ice : With Other Poems
Mary Gilmore – Selected Verse
Nan McDonald – "The Barren Ground"
Kenneth Mackenzie – "The Children Go"
Elizabeth Riddell – Poems
Roland Robinson
"Swift"
"Would I Might Find My Country"
Francis Webb
A Drum for Ben Boyd
"For My Grandfather"
Judith Wright
"Train Journey"
"Wonga Vine"
Drama
Sumner Locke Elliott – Rusty Bugles
Musette Morell
Three Radio Plays
Bush Cobbers
Ruth Park – The Uninvited Guest
Biography
Henry Handel Richardson – Myself When Young
Children's and Young Adults non-fiction
Frank Hurley – Shackleton's Argonauts : A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks
Awards and honours
= Literary
== Children's and Young Adult
== Poetry
=Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1948 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
16 February – Jeff Guess, poet
18 March – Di Morrissey, novelist
20 March – Dianne Bates, writer for children
2 April – Jennifer Rowe, novelist
23 April – John A. Scott, novelist
20 May – Kate Jennings, novelist and poet (died 2021)
23 July – Alan Wearne, poet
24 July — Joan London, novelist
12 September – Michael Dransfield, poet (died 1973)
21 September – Sean McMullen, novelist
25 September – Vicki Viidikas, poet and writer (died 1998)
2 November – Jenny Pausacker, novelist
Unknown date
Roger Bennett, playwright
Pam Brown, poet
Jimmy Chi, playwright and composer (died 2017)
Martin Duwell, editor
Dennis Haskell, poet
Dorothy Johnston, novelist
Margaret Wild, writer for children (in South Africa)
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1948 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
20 May – Marie E. J. Pitt, poet (born 1869)
26 September — R. J. Cassidy, poet (born 1880)
See also
1948 in Australia
1948 in literature
1948 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
References
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