1938 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1938.

For an overview of world literature see 1938 in literature.

See also: 1937 in Australian literature, 1938 in Australia, 1939 in Australian literature.

Books

• Martin Boyd – Night of the Party
• Eleanor Dark – Waterway
• Jean Devanny – Paradise Flow
• Arthur Gask – The Fall of a Dictator
• Xavier Herbert – Capricornia
• Michael Innes – Lament for a Maker
• Norman Lindsay – Age of Consent
• Alice Grant Rosman – Unfamiliar Faces
• Nevil Shute – Ruined City
• Christina Stead – House of All Nations
• E. V. Timms – Maelstrom
• Arthur Upfield – The Bone is Pointed

Short stories

• Alan Marshall – "Clarkey's Dead"
• Katharine Susannah Prichard – "Marlene"

Poetry

Main article: 1938 in poetry

• R. D. FitzGerald – Moonlight Acre
• A. D. Hope – "Standardisation"
• Jack Moses – Nine Miles from Gundagai
• John Shaw Neilson
  • Beauty Imposes : Some Recent Verse
  • "The Crane is My Neighbour"
• Rosemary Dobson – Poems
• Jack Lindsay – "On Guard for Spain"

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal	R. D. FitzGerald	Moonlight Acre	Melbourne University Press

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1938 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 10 March – Tony Morphett, scriptwriter
• 28 July – Robert Hughes, critic (died 2012)
• 21 August – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright
• 17 October – Les Murray, poet (died 2019)
• 30 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (died 2014)
• 21 December – Frank Moorhouse, novelist

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1938 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 21 January – Will Dyson, poet and artist (born 1880)
• 22 June – C. J. Dennis, poet (born 1876)

See also

• 1938 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature