This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1920.

Books

* J. H. M. Abbott — ''Castle Vane: A Romance of Bushranging on the Upper Hunter in the Olden Days'' *

Arthur H. Adams Arthur Henry Adams (6 June 1872 – 4 March 1936) was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London. Biography Arthur Adams was born in L ...

— ''The Australians: A Novel'' * Roy Bridges — ''The Fenceless Ranges'' * Mary Grant Bruce — ''Dick Lester of Kurrajong'' *

Bernard Cronin Bernard Cronin (18 March 1884 – 9 June 1968) was an Australian author and journalist. With Gertrude Hart, he founded the Old Derelicts' Club in 1920 which later became the Society of Australian Authors. Life Cronin was born in Ealing, Midd ...

— ''The Timber Wolves'' * Isabel Dick — ''The Veil of Discretion'' * Mary Gaunt — ''The Surrender and Other Happenings'' * Nat Gould ** ''A Chestnut Champion'' ** ''The Silver Star'' ** ''The Sweep Winner'' *

Jack McLaren Jack McLaren (13 October 1884 – 16 May 1954) was an Australian novelist who wrote novels based on his life experiences and who was renowned for his "authenticity of background".Dowell O'Reilly – ''Five Corners'' * Vance Palmer — ''The Shantykeeper's Daughter'' * Arthur J. Rees — ''The Hand in the Dark'' *

Lilian Turner Lilian Turner (21 August 1867 – 25 August 1956) was an Australian writer. Biography Lilian Wattnall Burwell was born 21 August 1867. She was the elder sister of Ethel Turner and the daughter of Bennett George and Sarah Jane Burwell. Bennett G ...

— ''Rachel''

Poetry

* Martin Boyd — ''Retrospect: Poems'' * James Hebblethwaite — ''The Poems of James Hebblethwaite'' * Henry Kendall — ''The Poems of Henry Kendall'' * Hugh McCrae — ''Columbine'' * Dorothea Mackellar — "Dusk in the Domain" *

Furnley Maurice Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot (6 April 1881 – 22 February 1942), who published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice, was a noted Australian poet, best known for ''To God: From the Warring Nations'' (1917). Early life Wilmot was a son of H ...

— ''Ways and Means: a poem and an argument'' * Nina Murdoch — "The Camphor Laurel Tree" *

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 Eleventh Moon" ** " Ride Him Away" * Vance Palmer ** ''The Camp'' ** "Europe" ** "The Farmer Remembers the Somme" ** "These Are My People" * Roderic Quinn — ''Poems'' * Kenneth Slessor — "In Tyrrell's Bookshop"

Short stories

* Henry Lawson — "Asking Dad" * Dowell O'Reilly — "Crows"

Children's and young adult fiction

* May Gibbs — ''Little Ragged Blossom: And More About Snugglepot and Cuddlepie'' *

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 ...

— ''Laughing Water''

Drama

* Randolph Bedford — '' The Boss Cockie'' * Louis Esson — ''Dead Timber and Other Plays''

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1920 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 8 June — Gwen Harwood, poet (died

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) * 18 June —

Rosemary Dobson Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO (18 June 192027 June 2012) was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist.Anderson (1996) She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of ''Au ...

, poet (died (

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) * 3 August —

Max Fatchen Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM (3 August 192014 October 2012) was an Australian children's writer and journalist. Early life Fatchen was born at "Narma" private hospital, South Terrace, Adelaide, the only son of Cecil William Fatchen and Isabel ...

, writer for children (died

) * 1 September — Margaret Paice, children's writer and illustrator (died

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) * 3 November — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet and activist (died

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) * 16 November — Colin Thiele, writer for children (died

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)

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 1920 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. * 12 August —

Louisa Lawson Louisa Lawson (née Albury) (17 February 1848 – 12 August 1920) was an Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson. Early life Louisa Albury was born on 17 February ...

, poet (born 1848)

References

{{Years in Australian literature Literature Australian literature by year 20th-century Australian literature