• Source: 1952 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1952.




Books


Martin Boyd – The Cardboard Crown
Jon Cleary
The Country of Marriage
The Sundowners
Helen Fowler – The Shades Will Not Vanish
T. A. G. Hungerford – The Ridge and the River
Rex Ingamells – Of Us Now Living
Philip Lindsay
The Merry Mistress
The Shadow of the Red Barn
Charles Shaw – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Nevil Shute – The Far Country
Christina Stead – The People with the Dogs
E. V. Timms – The Challenge




Short stories


A. Bertram Chandler – "Finishing Touch"
Peter Cowan – "The Red-Backed Spiders"
D'Arcy Niland – "Away to Moonlight"
Dal Stivens – "Ironbark Bill Meets the Bunyip"
Kylie Tennant – "The Face of Despair"




Crime and mystery


Charlotte Jay — Beat Not the Bones
Arthur Upfield – Venom House
June Wright – The Devil's Caress




Children's and Young Adult fiction


Nan Chauncy – World's End was Home




Poetry



David Campbell
"Dance of Flame and Shadow : Hobo Chorus"
"Snow Gums"
C. J. Dennis and Margaret Herron – Random Verse : A Collection of Verse and Prose
Rosemary Dobson – "The Mirror : Jan Vermeer Speaks"
R. D. Fitzgerald – Between Two Tides
Max Harris – "Martin Buber in the Pub"
James McAuley
"Invocation"
"Mating Swans"
Kenneth Mackenzie
Australian Poetry 1951-1952
"The Snake"
"Two Trinities"
Ian Mudie – "They'll Tell You about Me"
Olive Pell – "Monte Bello"
Vivian Smith – "Bedlam Hills"
Douglas Stewart
"Marree"
Sun Orchids and Other Poems
Judith Wright
"The Ancestors"
"Birds"
"Our Love is So Natural"




Biography


Russell Braddon – The Naked Island
Frank Hardy – Journey Into the Future
Jack McLaren – My Civilised Adventure
Nettie Palmer – Henry Lawson




Children's and Young Adult non-fiction


Eve Pownall – The Australia Book, illustrated by Margaret Senior




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 1952 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

13 July – Kim Gamble, illustrator of children's books (died 2016)
9 November – Nicholas Jose, novelist
Unknown date

Janine Burke, novelist
Patricia Cornelius, playwright
Wendy Jenkins, poet, editor and YA novelist (died 2022)
Rod Moran, poet and journalist




Deaths


A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1952 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

14 January — Victor Kennedy, poet (born 1895)
13 June – Harold Mercer, poet (born 1882)
22 July – E. J. Brady, poet (born 1869)
29 August – J. M. Walsh, novelist (born 1897)
27 December— Patrick Joseph Hartigan, priest and poet (born 1878)




See also


1952 in Australia
1952 in literature
1952 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature




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