This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1918.

Events

* 18 January – The first edition of '' Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine'' appears.

Books

* J. H. M. Abbott — ''Sally : The Tale of a Currency Lass'' * Mary Grant Bruce — ''Dick'' * May Gibbs ** ''Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: Their Adventures Wonderful'' ** ''Wattle Babies'' *

G. B. Lancaster Edith Joan Lyttleton (18 December 187310 March 1945) was an Australasian author, who wrote as G. B. Lancaster. Life and career Lyttleton was born on the family farm near Campbell Town, Tasmania, and brought up from 1879 in New Zealand on a ...

— ''The Savignys'' * Norman Lindsay — '' The Magic Pudding'' * Steele Rudd — ''Memoirs of Corporal Keeley'' * Lindsay Russell — ''Earthware'' *

Ethel Turner Ethel Turner (24 January 1870 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer. Life She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah J ...

— ''St. Tom and the Dragon''

Poetry

* Christopher Brennan — ''A Chant of Doom and Other Verses'' * Zora Cross ** ''The City of Riddle-Me-Ree'' ** ''The Lilt of Life'' * C. J. Dennis ** " The Battle of the Wazzir" ** ''Digger Smith'' * Mary Gilmore – ''The Passionate Heart'' * Henry Lawson — ''Selected Poems of Henry Lawson'' * Grace Ethel Martyr — ''Afterwards and Other Verses'' *

Myra Morris Myra Morris (15 May 1893 – 18 August 1966) was an Australian poet, novelist, and writer for children. Life and writing career Morris was born in the Victorian country town of Boort. Her English born father owned a series of grocery and pro ...

— ''England and Other Verses'' * Walter Murdoch — '' The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse'' *

John Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Mel ...

— " The Break of Day" *

A. B. Paterson Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the d ...

** " Moving On" ** "

Swinging the Lead ''Swinging the Lead'' is a 1934 British comedy film directed by David MacKane and starring William Hartnell, Moira Lynd and Gibb McLaughlin. Premise Some criminals sell a drug that changes people's personalities. Cast * William Hartnell ... Fr ...

" * David McKee Wright — ''An Irish Heart''

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1918 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 19 January – Eric Lambert, novelist (died

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

) * 26 January — Amy Witting, novelist (died

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

) * 10 July —

James Aldridge Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, ...

, novelist (died

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

) * 16 September — Nan Hunt, Australian children's writer who also wrote as N. L. Ray (died

)

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

) of deaths in 1918 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. * 28 April — Albert Robert Blackmore, poet (born

1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...

) * 12 October — Mary Hannay Foott, poet (born 1846) * 16 December — E. W. Cole, bookseller and publisher (born 1832)

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