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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1942.

For an overview of world literature see 1942 in literature.

See also: 1941 in Australian literature, 1942 in Australia, 1943 in Australian literature.

Books

• James Aldridge — Signed With Their Honour
• Jean Devanny — The Killing of Jacqueline Love
• Arthur Gask — His Prey Was Man
• Michael Innes — The Daffodil Affair
• Eve Langley — The Pea-Pickers
• Will Lawson — Bound for Callao
• Philip Lindsay
  • The Gentle Knight
  • Heart of a King
• Nevil Shute
  • Most Secret
  • Pied Piper

Children's

• Mary Grant Bruce — Billabong Riders
• Mary Durack & Elizabeth Durack — A Book of Picture Stories
• Dorothy Wall — A Tiny Story of Blinky Bill

Short stories

• John K. Ewers — "Harvest"
• Alan Marshall — "Blow Carson, I Say"
• Harold Mercer — The Adventures of Mrs. Parsley
• Ivan Southall — Out of the Dawn

Poetry

• Ethel Anderson — Squatter's Luck and Other Poems
• Rosemary Dobson — "In a Convex Mirror"
• Mary E. Fullerton
  • "Lovers"
  • "Unit"
• Mary Gilmore — "Nationality"
• James McAuley — "Terra Australis"
• Leonard Mann — "The Earth"
• Ian Mudie — "Retreat of a Pioneer"
• Douglas Stewart — "Old Iron"
• Judith Wright — "The Company of Lovers"

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[1]	Kylie Tennant	The Battlers	Victor Gollancz, Ltd.

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1942 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 5 January — Michael Wilding, novelist and academic
• 8 May — Peter Corris, novelist
• 26 June — Humphrey McQueen, author
• 29 August — Gillian Rubinstein, writer for children
• 17 October — Nicholas Hasluck, novelist and jurist
• 20 October — Bob Graham, author and illustrator
• 7 November — Helen Garner, novelist
• 12 November — Janette Turner Hospital, novelist

Unknown date

• Margaret Clark, writer for children
• Bob Ellis, journalist
• David Williamson, playwright

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1942 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 19 January — Mary Gaunt, novelist (born 1861)
• 21 January — Dorothy Wall, writer for children (born 1894)
• 22 February — Furnley Maurice, poet (born 1881)
• 7 May — William Baylebridge, poet and short story writer (born 1883)
• 19 May — John Shaw Neilson, poet (born 1872)

See also

• 1942 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References

1. "Literature Prize" The Age, 19 November 1943, p2