• Source: 1949 in Australian literature

      • This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1949.


      Books


      James Aldridge – The Diplomat
      Martin Boyd – Such Pleasure
      Jon Cleary – The Long Shadow
      Charmian Clift & George Johnston – High Valley
      Jean Devanny – Cindie : A Chronicle of the Canefields
      Philip Lindsay
      All That Glitters
      The Loves of My Lord Admiral
      Alan Marshall – How Beautiful Are Thy Feet
      Ruth Park – Poor Man's Orange
      E. V. Timms – The Pathway of the Sun
      June Wright – So Bad a Death


      Short stories


      Vance Palmer – "Mathieson's Wife"
      Dal Stivens – "The Pepper Tree"
      Judah Waten – "Neighbours"


      Poetry



      John Blight – "Into the Ark"
      David Campbell – Speak With the Sun
      Rosemary Dobson
      "Ampersand"
      "The Missal"
      Geoffrey Dutton – "Wool-Shed Dance"
      Nan McDonald – "Wet Summer : Botanic Gardens"
      Kenneth Mackenzie – "Table-Birds"
      Elizabeth Riddell
      "News of a Baby"
      "Wakeful in the Township"
      Roland Robinson – Language of the Sand : Poems
      David Rowbotham – "Nine O'Clock : By the Bunya Mountains"
      Douglas Stewart
      "Nodding Greenhood"
      "Terra Australis"
      Judith Wright
      "The Old Prison"
      Woman to Man


      Drama


      Max Afford – Dark Enchantment


      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 1949 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

      8 February – Nigel Krauth, novelist and academic
      22 March – Alan Gould, novelist
      7 April – Jennifer Maiden, poet
      30 April – Nadia Wheatley, biographer and writer for children
      15 August – Garry Disher, novelist
      6 November – Barry Dickins, author and playwright
      Unknown date

      Ken Bolton, poet
      Judith Brett, historian and academic
      Steven Carroll, novelist
      Jennifer Compton, poet and playwright (in New Zealand)
      Laurie Duggan, poet
      John Jenkins, poet
      Don Watson, author


      Deaths


      A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1949 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

      3 April — Ada Augusta Holman, journalist and novelist (born 1869)
      15 August – Roderic Quinn, poet (born 1867)
      16 September – Marion Knowles, novelist, poet and journalist (born 1865)
      11 October – Sydney Ure Smith, publisher (born 1887)


      See also


      1949 in Australia
      1949 in literature
      1949 in poetry
      List of years in Australian literature
      List of years in literature


      References

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