1930 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1930.
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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 – 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 – The Cripple in Black
- 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
Awards and honours
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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| ALS Gold Medal[1] | Vance Palmer | The Passage | Stanley Paul |
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 (died 2020)
- 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)