1930 in Australian literature

The year 1930 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.

For an overview of world literature see 1930 in literature.

See also: 1929 in Australian literature, 1930 in Australia, 1931 in Australian literature.

Books

• Marie Bjelke-Petersen — Monsoon Music
• Jean Devanny
  • Bushman Burke
  • Devil Made Saint
• Miles Franklin
  • Old Blastus of Bandicoot : Opuscule on a Pioneer Tufted with Ragged Rhymes
  • Ten Creeks Run : A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee
• Arthur Gask — The Shadow of Larose
• Mary Gaunt — Joan of the Pilchard
• Xavier Herbert — Black Velvet
• Norman Lindsay — Redheap
• Lennie Lower — Here's Luck
• Vance Palmer
  • Men are Human
  • The Passage
• Katharine Susannah Prichard — Haxby's Circus : The Lightest, Brightest Little Show on Earth
• Alice Grant Rosman — The Young and Secret
• E. V. Timms
  • Alicia Deane
  • Conflict
  • The Cripple in Black
  • Whitehall
• Arthur W. Upfield — The Beach of Atonement

Young Adult

• Alice Grant Rosman — Jock the Scot
• Lilian Turner — There Came a Call

Poetry

• Mary Gilmore — The Wild Swan : Poems
• S. Elliott Napier — Potted Biographies
• John Shaw Neilson — "The Uneven Player"
• Kenneth Slessor — "Gardens in the Sky"

Drama

• Sumner Locke Elliott — The Crazy Family
• Louis Esson — The Quest : A Dramatic Legend in Six Scenes

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1930 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 15 February — Bruce Dawe, poet
• 11 March — Geoffrey Blainey, historian
• 21 May — Malcolm Fraser, politician and author (died 2015)
• 19 June — Anne Deveson, author
• 25 November — Brenda Niall, biographer

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1930 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 13 January — Robert Crawford, poet (born 1868)
• 28 March — Jean Curlewis, novelist (born 1898)
• 2 September — Archibald Strong, poet (born 1876)

See also

• 1930 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References